European Design and Automation Association

Call for Nominations

EDAA Outstanding Dissertations Award 2006

In recognition of the importance of university research to the advancement of design automation and test, and to encourage young researchers to work in the field, EDAA has established an award for outstanding Ph.D. dissertations in 4 categories:

• Topic 1 : New directions in embedded system design and embedded software
• Topic 2 : New directions in logic and system design
• Topic 3 : New directions in physical design, design for manufacturing and CAD for analog circuits
• Topic 4 : New directions in circuit and system test.

In each category, one award can be given. Each award consists of a 1,000 € prize and a certificate. The awards will be presented at the DATE 2007 conference.

Eligible are all dissertations which have been finalized in the last 2 years before the submission deadline.

Nominations shall be submitted electronically and shall contain:

- an indication of the category (one only)
- an extended statement explaining the outstanding contributions of this thesis
- the PhD Thesis, preferably in English.
A thesis which is written in a language other than English must be accompanied by sufficient published material in English so that the jury can judge contributions and quality of the PhD work.
- a CV and a list of related publications.

Nominations shall be supported by at least 2 reference letters of experts in the respective fields, at least one from a different university.

Awardees must be present at DATE-07 to receive the Award.

Deadline for nominations is 24 September 2006.

The nominations should be submitted electronically, exclusively in PDF format, through the following URL address at TIMA website: http://tima-cmp.imag.fr/EDAA

Award Chair: Bernard COURTOIS
TIMA Labs
46 Avenue Félix Viallet
38031 GRENOBLE CEDEX - FRANCE
Email: Bernard.Courtois@imag.fr