Each year, IACM seeks applications from freshly minted Ph.D.s in our field for the Dissertation of the Year Award. If you successfully defended your dissertation within the 2005 or 2006 calendar year, you are eligible to apply. We encourage those eligible to apply, since relatively few Ph.D.s are granted each year in our area and the chances of winning are quite good.
To apply for the Dissertation of the Year Award, submit a 10-page (excluding tables and references), double-spaced abstract of your dissertation to me at the following email address: wsteinel@fsw.leidenuniv.nl.
The deadline for submission is April 1, 2007. Please submit your application electronically via email as an MS Word attachment, so they can be distributed to the other reviewers in this format. Abstracts that exceed the 10-page limit (excluding references and tables) will not be accepted, so please keep it short. Please contact me if I do not confirm receipt of your email within a week!
Four reviewers will independently rank order these applications. If only one person applies, we will hold the dissertation for one year and put it in the next year's pool. Applicants are encouraged to give the committee a thorough understanding of the theory, methods, and results of the dissertation.
