Education & Outreach

The Doctoral Dissertation Award 2008

CLARITY, CNGL, CTVR, DERI and Lero will present an award for the best doctoral dissertation of 2008 in a software related discipline. A panel of judges will decide on the dissertation that made the most significant contribution to its field - whether computer science, software engineering or another software related area.

The competition is open to students that have been awarded a PhD in one of the relevant disciplines in 2008 and that are members of CLARITY, CNGL, CTVR, DERI and Lero Centres for Science, Engineering and Technology.
The winner will receive a prize of €2,500.

If you are interested in applying for this competition please contact your CSET Education and Outreach Manager. After an internal CSET competition, each CSET will nominate one candidate for the overall competition.

Each CSET should send FIVE hard (paper) copies of the nominated thesis to:
Clare McInerney
Lero
International Science Centre
University of Limerick

and one electronic copy to phd-award@lero.ie

Constraints:
•    Restricted to one nomination per CSET
•    the candidate need not have graduated, but University's Academic Board or equivalent body must have determined during 2008 that the degree may be awarded (if such a determination is expected during December 2008 the thesis may be provisionally nominated)
•    the copies of the thesis may be in temporary bindings
The submission deadline is December 31, 2008.

For further information contact: phd-award@lero.ie

The doctoral dissertation award is being organised by the following research centres:

CLARITY: the Centre for Sensor Web Technologies www.clarity-centre.org
Centre for Next Generation Localisation CNGL www.cngl.ie
Centre for Telecommunications Value-Chain Research CTVR www.cvtr.ie
Digital Enterprise Research Institute DERI www.deri.org
Lero: the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre www.lero.ie