| About the Award |
The Cor Baayen Award is awarded each year to a most 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 2006. A short article on the winner, together with the list of all candidates nominated, will be published in ERCIM News.
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Cor Baayen Award 2006
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| Eligibility |
- Nominees must have carried out their work in one of the 'ERCIM countries': Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom
- Nominees must have been awarded their PhD (or equivalent) after 15 April 2003.
- A person can only be nominated once for the Cor Baayen Award.
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| 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 and provide a URL to the candidate's PhD thesis as well as the candidate's best papers (max. 5).
- 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/)
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| 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.
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| Deadlines |
Nominations must be submitted by 15 April 2006.
National contacts are to send their two selected nominations to the coordinator by 30 April, 2006. |
| Further Information |
Can be obtained from your national contact or from the Cor Baayen Award coordinator László Monostori, SZTAKI (laszlo.monostori ercim.org). |
2005 Cor Baayen Award
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 Milan Vojnovic from Cambridge, UK has been awarded the 2005 Cor Baayen Award
Milan Vojnovic, originally from Croatia completed his PhD at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and has subsequently worked as an Associate Researcher in the Systems and Networking Group at Microsoft Research in Cambridge.
see article in ERCIM News
19 finalists for the 2005 Cor Baayen Award have been nominated by the ERCIM institutes. Each institute was allowed to select up to two finalists from its country.
| 2005 Cor Baayen Award Finalists |
| Urtzi Ayesta |
France |
| Francesco Bonchi |
Italy |
| Santiago Escobar |
Spain |
| Marc Esteva |
Spain |
| Keir Fraser |
United Kingdom |
| Emmanuel Frécon |
Sweden |
| Petr Gebousky |
Czech Republic |
| Claudio Mattiussi |
Switzerland |
| Hervé Rivano |
France |
| Fabrizio Silvestri |
Italy |
| Rene Sitters |
The Netherlands |
| Filip Sroubek |
Czech Republic |
| François-Xavier Standaert |
Belgium |
| Martin Svensson |
Sweden |
| Markku Turunen |
Finland |
| Kuldar Taveter |
Finland |
| Milan Vojnovic |
United Kingdom |
| Kilian Weniger |
Germany |
| Philipp Woelfel |
Germany |
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