European Association for Theoretical Computer Science


The European Association for Theoretical Computer Science is an international organization with a European focus, founded in 1972. Its aim is to facilitate the exchange of ideas and results among theoretical computer scientists as well as to stimulate cooperation between the theoretical and the practical community in computer science.
The major activities of the EATCS are:
Each year, the EATCS Award is awarded in recognition of a distinguished career in theoretical computer science. The first award was assigned to Richard Karp in 2000; the complete list of the winners is given below:
YearAwardedPlace
2023Amos FiatICALP
2022Patrick CousotICALP
2021Toniann PitassiICALP
2020Mihalis YannakakisICALP
2019Thomas HenzingerICALP
2018Noam NisanICALP
2017Éva TardosICALP
2016Dexter KozenICALP
2015Christos PapadimitriouICALP
2014Gordon PlotkinICALP
2013Martin DyerICALP
2012Moshe VardiICALP
2011Boris TrakhtenbrotICALP
2010Kurt MehlhornICALP
2009Gérard HuetICALP
2008Leslie G. ValiantICALP
2007Dana S. ScottICALP
2006Mike PatersonICALP
2005Robin MilnerICALP
2004Arto SalomaaICALP
2003Grzegorz RozenbergICALP
2002Maurice NivatICALP
2001Corrado BöhmICALP
2000Richard KarpICALP

Presburger Award

Starting in 2010, the European Association of Theoretical Computer Science confers each year at the conference ICALP the Presburger Award to a young scientist for outstanding contributions in theoretical computer science, documented by a published paper or a series of published papers. The award is named after Mojzesz Presburger who accomplished his path-breaking work on decidability of the theory of addition as a student in 1929. The complete list of the winners is given below:
YearAwardedPlace
2021Shayan Oveis GharanICALP
2020Dmitriy ZhukICALP
2019Karl Bringmann, Kasper Green LarsenICALP
2018Aleksander MądryICALP
2017Alexandra SilvaICALP
2016Mark BravermanICALP
2015Xi ChenICALP
2014David WoodruffICALP
2013Erik DemaineICALP
2012Venkatesan Guruswami, Mihai PatrascuICALP
2011Patricia Bouyer-DecitreICALP
2010Mikołaj BojańczykICALP

EATCS Fellows

The EATCS Fellows Program has been established by the Association to recognize outstanding EATCS Members for their scientific achievements in the field of Theoretical Computer Science. The Fellow status is conferred by the EATCS Fellows-Selection Committee upon a person having a track record of intellectual and organizational leadership within the EATCS community. Fellows are expected to be “model citizens” of the TCS community, helping to develop the standing of TCS beyond the frontiers of the community.
AwardedRecognized Year
Luca Aceto2021
Jiri Adamek2018
Susanne Albers2014
Rajeev Alur2021
Giorgio Ausiello2014
Wilfried Brauer2014
Artur Czumaj2015
Pierpaolo Degano2020
Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini2015
Josep Diaz2017
Herbert Edelsbrunner2014
Zoltán Ésik2016
Mike Fellows2014
Fedor Fomin2019
Yuri Gurevich2014
Mohammad Hajiaghayi2020
Magnús M. Halldórsson2020
David Harel2016
Monika Henzinger2014
Thomas A. Henzinger2015
Giuseppe F. Italiano2016
Samir Khuller2021
Dexter Kozen2015
Marta Kwiatkowska2017
Stefano Leonardi2018
Kurt Mehlhorn2016
Rocco de Nicola2019
David Peleg2021
Jean-Éric Pin2014
Dana Ron2019
Davide Sangiorgi2021
Saket Saurabh2021
Scott A. Smolka2016
Paul Spirakis2014
Aravind Srinivasan2017
Wolfgang Thomas2014
Moshe Y. Vardi2015
Moti Yung2017

Texts in Theoretical Computer Science

EATCS Bulletin

The EATCS Bulletin is a newsletter of the EATCS, published online three times annually in February, June, and October respectively. The Bulletin is a medium for rapid publication and wide distribution of material such as:
  • EATCS matters;
  • information about the current ICALP;
  • technical contributions;
  • columns;
  • surveys and tutorials;
  • reports on conferences;
  • calendar of events;
  • reports on computer science departments and institutes;
  • listings of technical reports and publications;
  • book reviews;
  • open problems and solutions;
  • abstracts of PhD Theses;
  • information on visitors at various institutions; and
  • entertaining contributions and pictures related to computer science.
Since 2021 its editor-in-chief has been Stefan Schmid.

EATCS Young Researchers Schools

Beginning in 2014, the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science established a series of Young Researcher Schools on TCS topics. A brief history of the schools follows below.
YearTypePlace
2017ProbProgSchool 2017 – 1st School on Foundations of Programming and Software systems. Probabilistic programmingBraga, Portugal
20152nd EATCS Young Researchers School – Understanding COMPLEXITY and CONCURRENCY through TOPOLOGY of DATACamerino, Italy
20141st EATCS Young Researchers School – Automata, Logic and GamesTelč, Czech Republic