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      help us spread this call to students who may be interested, and
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      Magdalena <br>
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    <div>Magdalena Ortiz<br>
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    Institute of Information Systems<br>
    TU Wien<br>
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        </span>The Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms announces the
        2015 edition of the</span><span
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        VCLA International Student Awards</span></p>
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">and
        calls for the nomination of authors of outstanding scientific
        works in the field of Logic and Computer Science, in the
        following two categories:</span></p>
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Outstanding
            Master Thesis Award</span><span
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            to be given to the author of an outstanding thesis for
            obtaining a Masters degree or equivalent (2nd cycle Bologna
            process), and</span></p>
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Outstanding
            Undergraduate Research Award</span><span
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            to be given to the author of an outstanding thesis or final
            project for obtaining a Bachelors degree or equivalent (1st
            cycle Bologna process).</span></p>
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">In
        both categories, the work must make an original contribution to
        a research field that can be classified as part of Logic in
        Computer Science, understood broadly as the use of logic as a
        tool that enables computer programs to reason about the world.
        The main areas of interest are:</span></p>
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Databases
            and Artificial Intelligence</span></p>
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Verification</span></p>
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Computational
            Logic</span></p>
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The
        committee will select a winner for each category. The winners
        will be invited to Vienna to present their project and
        participate in a festive award ceremony. Additionally, the
        Outstanding Master Thesis Award category is accompanied by a
        prize of </span><span
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        Eur</span><span
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        and the Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award by a prize of </span><span
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        Eur</span><span
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nomination
        deadline: </span><span
style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">November
        15, 2015</span><span
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        (AoE)</span></p>
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        of the committee’s decision: early February 2016</span></p>
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Award
        ceremony: Spring 2016</span></p>
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        more information, please see</span><a
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