Trevisan Award

The Luca Trevisan Award for Expository Work is intended to promote and recognize high-impact work expositing ideas and results from the Theory of Computation. The exposition can have various target audiences, e.g. people in this field, people in adjacent or remote academic fields, as well as the general public. The form of exposition can vary, and can include books, surveys, lectures, video (e.g. course materials), and audio (e.g. podcasts) material, blogs and other media products. These variations in target audiences and forms of expositions are intended, with the choice between them each year left to the selection committee. The award may be given to an individual, or a small group who together produced this expository work.

Nominations

Nominations will have a lead nominator, who will submit a cover letter of 1-3 pages describing why the work and nominee(s) should be recognized with this award, along with a copy of or link to the work. In addition, three to five letters in support of the nomination should be submitted. There are no specified qualifications of endorsers.

The selection committee may also solicit nominations for work that they believe would be strong contenders, and will roll over nominations from previous years for continued consideration.

The deadline for nominations will be October 1 of each year.

Eligibility

Everyone who is nominated is eligible, with the following exceptions. Individuals excluded under the ACM Awards conflict-of-interest policy and violations database, members of the current Selection Committee and the SIGACT Executive Committee, and individuals who contributed to funding the award.

Selection Committee

The selection commitee has not been finalized. The chair of the award committee is Salil Vadhan.

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