Presburger Award

Starting in 2010, the European Association of Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) confers each year at the conference ICALP the Presburger Award to a young scientist (in exceptional cases to several young scientists) for outstanding contributions in theoretical computer science, documented by a published paper or a series of published papers. The award is named after Mojzesz Presburger who accomplished his path-breaking work on decidability of the theory of addition (which today is called Presburger arithmetic) as a student in 1929.

Nominations

Nominations for the Presburger Award can be submitted by any member or group of members of the theoretical computer science community except the nominee and their advisors for the master thesis and the doctoral dissertation. Nominated scientists have to be young scientists by January 1st of the year of the nomination, by living up to at least one of the following:

• being at most 35 years old,
• or having finished their PhD at most 6 years ago. The eligibility is extended due to leaves of absence according to the same rules as the ERC starting grant: https://erc.europa.eu/apply-grant/starting-grant

Award Committee 2023

Nominations, consisting of a two page justification and (links to) the respective papers, as well as additional supporting letters, should be sent to

	Uriel Feige This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

by 7th March 2024:

Presburger Award for Young Scientists 2024 - Call for Nominations

The two page justification can be co-signed by several nominators and may be accompanied by letters of support.

The award includes an amount of 1000 € and an invitation to ICALP 2024 for a lecture.

The Presburger Award is sponsored by CWI, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica.

A brief history of the Presburger Award follows below.

	2024 / Justin Hsu, Pravesh Kothari Place: ICALP (Tallin) Committee: Uriel Feige (chair), Tal Malkin, Joël Ouaknine

	2023 / Aaron Bernstein, Thatchaphol Saranurak Place: ICALP (Paderborn) Committee: Mikołaj Bojanczyk (chair), Uriel Feige and Tal Malkin

	2022 / Dor Minzer Place: ICALP (Paris) Committee: Mikołaj Bojanczyk, Uriel Feige and Meena Mahajan (chair)

	2021 / Shayan Oveis Gharan Place: ICALP (Glasgow) Committee: Thore Husfeldt (chair), Meena Mahajan and Mikołaj Bojanczyk

	2020 / Dmitriy Zhuk Place: ICALP (Saarbrücken) Committee: Thore Husfeldt, Meena Mahajan and Anca Muscholl (chair)

	2019 / Karl Bringmann & Kasper Green Larsen Place: ICALP (Patras) Committee: Thore Husfeldt, Anca Muscholl and Jukka Suomela (chair)

	2018 / Aleksander Mądry Place: ICALP (Prague) Committee: Monika Henzinger, Stephan Kreutzer (chair) and Jukka Suomela

	2017 / Alexandra Silva Place: ICALP (Warsow) Committee: Marta Kwiatkowska (chair), Stephan Kreutzer and Jukka Suomela

	2016 / Mark Braverman Place: ICALP (Rome) Committee: Zoltan Esik (University of Szeged, Hungary), Marta Kwiatkowska (University of Oxford, UK) and Claire Mathieu (ENS Paris, France;chair)

	2015 / Xi Chen Place: ICALP (Kyoto) Committee: Zoltan Esik (University of Szeged, Hungary), Claire Mathieu (ENS Paris, France) and Peter Widmayer (ETH Zurich, CH; chair)

	2014 / David Woodruff Place: ICALP (Copenhagen) Committee: Claire Mathieu, Peter Widmayer, and Antonin Kucera (chair)

	2013 / Erik Demaine Place: ICALP (Riga) Committee: Antonin Kucera, Peter Widmayer, and Monika Henzinger (chair) Photos from ICALP 2013

	2012 / Venkatesan Guruswami, Mihai Patrascu Place: ICALP (Warwick) Committee: Monika Henzinger, Antonin Kucera, and Stefano Leonardi (chair)

	2011 / Patricia Bouyer-Decitre Place: ICALP (Zürich) Committee: Monika Henzinger, Stefano Leonardi, and Andrzej Tarlecki (chair) Photos from ICALP 2011 by Manfred Kudlek

	2010 / Mikolaj Bojanczyk Place: ICALP (Bordeaux) Committee: Stefano Leonardi, Andrzej Tarlecki, and Wolfgang Thomas (chair) Photos from ICALP 2010 by Manfred Kudlek