EATCS honours three outstanding PhD theses with the EATCS Distinguished Dissertation Award for 2020

EATCS is proud to announce that, after examining the nominations received from our research community, the EATCS Distinguished Dissertation Award Committee 2020, consisting of Susanne Albers, Nikhil Bansal, Elvira Mayordomo, Jaroslav Nesetril, Damian Niwinski, David Peleg (chair), Vladimiro Sassone and Alexandra Silva, has selected the following three theses as recipients of the EATCS Distinguished Dissertation Award for 2020:

•    Counting, Sampling and Testing Subgraphs in Sublinear-Time, by Talya Eden, ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ), Tel Aviv University. Advisor: Dana Ron ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ),

•    Expressivity of first-order logic, star-free propositional dynamic logic and communicating automata, by Marie Fortin, ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ), l’Université Paris-Saclay Advisors, Paul Gastin ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) and Benedikt Bollig ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ),

•    Approximation Algorithms for Traveling Salesman Problems, by Vera Traub, ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ), University of Bonn Advisor: Jens Vygen ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )