EATCS honours three outstanding PhD theses with the EATCS Distinguished Dissertation Award for 2021EATCS is proud to announce that, after examining the nominations received from our research community, the EATCS Distinguished Dissertation Award Committee 2021, 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 2021: Alexandros Hollender: Structural Results for Total Search Complexity Classes with Applications to Game Theory and Optimisation (University of Oxford; advisor: Paul W. Goldberg). Jason Li: Preconditioning and Locality in Algorithm Design (Carnegie Mellon University; advisors: Anupam Gupta and Bernhard Haeupler). Jan van den Brand: Dynamic Matrix Algorithms and Applications in Convex and Combinatorial Optimization (KTH Royal Institute of Technology; advisor: Danupon Nanongkai). The award certificate will be presented to in the award ceremony of ICALP 2022, to take place in Paris, France, in July 4-8, 2022. |
