Monday, October 17, 2011

SIGACT Nominations and Awards

Last call for nominations for  the SIGACT Executive Committee
ACM will hold elections in spring 2012 for the next SIGACT Executive Committee to take office July 1 to serve a three-year term. We are seeking nominations for candidates for the SIGACT chair and four at-large positions. Vice-chair and Secretary/Treasurer will be chosen later from the at-large positions. Details in the SIGACT Bylaws http://www.acm.org/sigs/bylaws-contents/act_bylaws/

You are welcome to nominate others or yourselves. All candidates must be SIGACT and ACM Professional members and must be willing to serve if elected. Please send names of your nominee(s) to the nominating committee chair (fortnow@eecs.northwestern.edu) by October 26, 2011.

Current SIGACT EC: Cynthia Dwork, Lance Fortnow (Chair), Richard Ladner (Past Chair), Anna Lysyanskaya (Secretary/Treasurer), Michael Mitzenmacher (Vice-Chair), Michael Saks

Nominations Committee: Lance Fortnow (Chair), Anna Lysyanskaya, Eva Tardos

Also please submit nomination for the following awards:
Gödel Prize http://www.sigact.org/Prizes/Godel/ (Joint with EATCS)
Knuth Prize http://www.sigact.org/Prizes/Knuth/ (Joint with IEEE TCMFCS)
SIGACT Distinguished Service http://www.sigact.org/Prizes/Service/

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our announcements blog at http://dmatheorynet.blogspot.com/ and of course http://www.sigact.org/