Presburger Award
The Presburger Award, started in 2010, is awarded each year by the European [Association for Theoretical Computer Science] 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 Mojżesz Presburger, who accomplished his path-breaking work on decidability of the theory of addition as a student in 1929.
Past recipients of the award are:
- Mikołaj Bojańczyk
- Patricia Bouyer-Decitre
- Venkatesan Guruswami and Mihai Pătraşcu
- Erik Demaine
- David Woodruff
- Xi Chen
- Mark [Braverman (mathematician)|Mark Braverman]
- Alexandra Silva
- Karl Bringmann and Kasper Green Larsen
- Dmitriy Zhuk
- Shayan Oveis Gharan
- Dor Minzer
- Aaron Bernstein and Thatchaphol Saranurak
- Justin Hsu and Pravesh Kothari