Cor Baayen Award

The Cor Baayen Award is awarded each year to a promising young researcher in computer science and applied mathematics. The award was created in 1995 to honour the first ERCIM President.
The award consists of a cheque for 5000 Euro together with an award certificate. The selected fellow will be invited to the ERCIM meetings in autumn. A short article on the winner, together with the list of all candidates nominated, will be published in ERCIM News.

Cor Baayen Award 2008 to Adam Dunkels

see article in ERCIM News

Cor Baayen Award 2009

Eligibility

  • Nominees must have carried out their work in one of the 'ERCIM countries': Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom
  • Nominees must have been awarded their PhD (or equivalent) after 15 April 2006.
  • A person can only be nominated once for the Cor Baayen Award.

Submitting a nomination

  • Nominations should be made by a staff member of the university or research institute where the nominee is undertaking research. Self nominations are not accepted.
  • To submit a nomination fill out the Cor Baayen Award Nomination Form (available shortly) and provide a URL to the candidate's PhD thesis as well as the candidate's best papers (max. 5).
  • Nominations must be submitted online
  • Alternatively contact the ERCIM Executive Committee member (the national contact point) for the country in which the nominee is undertaking research (see http://www.ercim.org/contacts/execom/index.html)

Selection

  • Initial selection will be made by each ERCIM institute (the national contact point) which is allowed to put forward up to two candidates from its country
  • Nominees will be informed if they have been selected as one of the two candidates from their country.
  • The selection of the Cor Baayen award winner is the responsibility of the ERCIM Executive Committee, who will consult expert opinion in reaching their decision.

Deadlines

Nominations must be submitted by 15 April 2009

National contacts are to send their two selected nominations to the coordinator by 30 April, 2009.

Further Information

Can be obtained from your national contact or from the Cor Baayen Award coordinator László Monostori, SZTAKI (laszlo.monostoriatercim.org).

Cor Baayen

About Cor Baayen

The Cor Baayen Award, is named after the first president of ERCIM. Cor Baayen played an important role in its foundation. Cor Baayen was scientific director of the Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands, from 1980 to 1994.

Baayen joined the institute in 1959 as a researcher of the department of pure mathematics, where he became group leader in 1965. As scientific director, Cor Baayen convinced the government to include CWI in a program that stimulated Dutch computer science research. He initiated or stimulated several new research areas including cryptography, computer algebra and performance analysis.