Eurographics Annual Award for Best PhD Thesis
Eurographics has extended the Research Awards Programme in 2011, by creating an additional Best PhD Thesis Award. The aim is to recognize good thesis work in Europe, to incentivize young researchers, and to offer them the opportunity to publish the state of the art section of their thesis as a STAR in the Computer Graphics Forum Journal. Eurographics annually grants three PhD thesis awards. The awards will be presented during the next annual Conference. They are jointly sponsored by Eurographics and the Computer Graphics Forum Journal.
The current nomination term is open, and it will close in November 30th, 2011. Candidates will be PhD Theses defended and mainly conducted in Europe or in countries having a Eurographics Chapter or in EG Organizational Member Institutions. Theses defended and awarded the degree from May 1st, 2010 up October 31st, 2011 are eligible in this edition. The required documentation includes:
1. The thesis in English.
2. Names and contact details of four possible reviewers, of which at least one is not the thesis supervisor or examiners or co-author in a publication resulting from the thesis. The connection of each possible reviewer to the thesis (Supervisor, Examiner, Co-author, None) should be stated. The Awards Committee reserves the right to solicit reviews also from persons not on this list.
3. A document confirming the submission of the thesis for archive in the Eurographics Digital Library: http://diglib.eg.org/EG/DL/dissonline.
4. Full CV of the candidate with explicit mention of which publications resulted from the thesis.
The documentation of candidate nominations must be sent by e-mail to the PhD Thesis Awards chair, Pere Brunet ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ), not later than November 30th, 2011. All submitted material should be in English. Any submission missing these materials and
conditions will be disqualified.
The PhD Thesis Awards Committee consists of five members. Committee membership will be for five years terms, which will be staggered to ensure continuity. The committee can decide, as an extraordinary measure, to increase the number of awards in some years. The Committee will consider the quality of the work, the review reports, the quality and impact of the publications derived from the thesis, the coherence of the state of the art section in the thesis and any other relevant aspect of the work.
Awarded researchers will be announced and receive a certificate at the 2012 Annual Eurographics Conference. They will also receive a three-years free Eurographics membership, and will be invited to prepare a State-of-the-Art paper within two months after the Conference. Submitted papers will follow a fast track review cycle for publication in the STAR section of the Computer Graphics Forum Journal.
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