Ackermann Award 2024

Ackermann Award 2024

The Ackermann Award 2024 is bestowed on

Gaëtan Douéneau-Tabot

for the thesis

Optimization of string transducers

Supervised by Olivier Carton and Emmanuel Filiot at Université Paris-Cité (France)

AND

Aliaume Lopez

for the thesis

First Order Preservation Theorems in Finite Model Theory: Locality, Topology, and Limit Constructions

Supervised by Jean Goubault-Larrecq and Sylvain Schmitz at ENS Paris-Saclay and Université Paris-Cité (France), respectively.

A detailed report is published in the CSL 2025 proceedings.

The 2024 Ackermann award is presented to the recipients at the annual conference of the EACSL,  CSL 2025, in Amsterdam.

The Jury consisted of

  • Albert Asterias (Technical University of Catalonia),
  • Christel Baier (TU Dresden),
  • Andrej Bauer (University of Ljubljana),
  • Maribel Fernandez (King’s College London), president of EACSL,
  • Joost-Pieter Katoen (RWTH Aachen University), ACM SigLog representative,
  • Delia Kesner (IRIF, U Paris Cite),
  • Slawomir Lasota (U Warsaw),
  • Florin Manea (U Göttingen), vice-president of EACSL,
  • Prakash Panangaden (McGill University).