The Prize is named in honor of Kurt Gödel in recognition of his major contributions to mathematical logic and of his interest, discovered in a letter he wrote to John von Neumann shortly before von Neumann’s death, in what has become the famous “P versus NP” question. The Prize includes an award of USD 5,000.
Award Committee
The 2025 Award Committee consists of Mikołaj Bojańczyk (University of Warsaw), Artur Czumaj (University of Warwick), Yuval Ishai (Technion), Anna Karlin (University of Washington), Marta Kwiatkowska (University of Oxford), Tim Roughgarden (chair, Columbia University).
Eligibility, 2025
Eligibility: The 2025 Prize rules are given below and they supersede any different interpretation of the generic rule to be found on websites of both SIGACT and EATCS. Any research paper or series of papers by a single author or by a team of authors is deemed eligible if:
The main results were not published (in either preliminary or final form) in a journal or conference proceedings before January 1st, 2012.
The paper was published in a recognized refereed journal no later than December 31, 2024.
The research work nominated for the award should be in the area of theoretical computer science. Nominations are encouraged from the broadest spectrum of the theoretical computer science community so as to ensure that potential award winning papers are not overlooked. The Award Committee shall have the ultimate authority to decide whether a particular paper is eligible for the Prize.
Nominations, 2025
Nominations for the award should be submitted by email to the Award Committee Chair: tim.roughgarden@gmail.com. Please make sure that the Subject line of all nominations and related messages begin with “Goedel Prize 2025”. To be considered, nominations for the 2025 Prize must be received by April 11, 2025.
A nomination package should include:
A printable copy (or copies) of the journal paper(s) being nominated, together with a complete citation (or citations) thereof.
A statement of the date(s) and venue(s) of the first conference or workshop publication(s) of the nominated work(s) or a statement that no such publication has occurred.
A brief summary of the technical content of the paper(s) and a brief explanation of its significance.
A support letter or letters signed by at least two members of the scientific community.
Additional support letters may also be received and are generally useful. The nominated paper(s) may be in any language. However, if a nominated publication is not in English, the nomination package must include an extended summary written in English.
Those intending to submit a nomination should contact the Award Committee Chair by email well in advance. The Chair will answer questions about eligibility, encourage coordination among different nominators for the same paper(s), and also accept informal proposals of potential nominees or tentative offers to prepare formal nominations. The committee maintains a database of past nominations for eligible papers, but fresh nominations for the same papers (especially if they highlight new evidence of impact) are always welcome.
Selection Process, 2025
The Award Committee is free to use any other sources of information in addition to the ones mentioned above. It may split the award among multiple papers, or declare no winner at all. All matters relating to the selection process left unspecified in this document are left to the discretion of the Award Committee.
The SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation Award recognizes an outstanding dissertation in the field of economics and computation. The award is conferred annually at the ACM Conference on Economics and Computation and includes a certificate, complimentary conference registration, and an honorarium of $1,500. A certificate may further be given to up to two runners-up. No award may be conferred if the nominations are judged not to meet the standards for the award.
To be eligible, a dissertation must be on a topic related to economics and computation and must have been defended successfully during the calendar year preceding the year of the award presentation.
The next SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation Award will be given for dissertations defended in 2024. Nominations are due by February 28th, 2025 (Anywhere on Earth), and should be submitted by email to sigecom-dissertationaward@googlegroups.com with the name of the nominee in the subject. A dissertation may be nominated simultaneously for both the SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation Award and the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.
Nominations may be made by any member of SIGecom and will typically come from the dissertation supervisor. Self-nomination is not allowed. Nominations for the award must include the following, preferably having items 1, 3, 4 and 5 in a single PDF file:
Suggested citation if the dissertation is selected. This should consist of at most 2 sentences describing the key contributions of the thesis.
A two-page summary of the dissertation, written by the nominee, including bibliographic data and links to publicly accessible versions of published papers based primarily on the dissertation.
An English-language version of the dissertation in a separate file.
An endorsement letter of no more than two pages by the nominator, arguing the merit of the dissertation, potential impact, and justification of the nomination. This document should also certify the dissertation defense date.
The names, email addresses, and affiliations of two additional endorsers.
The additional endorsement letters themselves should be sent directly by email (sigecom-dissertationaward@googlegroups.com), by the same deadline. These endorsements should be no longer than 500 words and should specify the relationship of the endorser to the nominee, contributions of the dissertation, and its potential impact on the field.
It is expected that a nominated candidate, if selected for the award, will attend the next ACM Conference on Economics and Computation to accept the award and give a presentation on the dissertation work. The award includes complimentary registration but does not cover travel or accommodation expenses to attend the conference.
The 2024 Doctoral Dissertation Award Committee: Ben Brooks, University of Chicago Richard Cole, New York University Rachel Cummings (chair), Columbia University
We are pleased to announce a program “Algorithmics of Fair Division and Social Choice”, to be held at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore between November 25 – December 13, 2024:
The program consists of tutorials and two workshops (one on fair division; one on voting, matching, and preference aggregation). We are fortunate to have the following tutorial speakers:
Felix Brandt (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
Piotr Faliszewski (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland)
Ayumi Igarashi (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Minming Li (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
The program is open to all, and registration is free.
Elchanan Ben-Porath, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Michal Feldman, Tel Aviv University
Noam Nisan, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Contemporary economic theorists and computer scientists have a large research agenda in common. Topics of mutual interest include the design of contracts, auctions, and information structures, as well as the use of algorithms to achieve fair allocations. This summer school will explore all these topics and more
Speakers:
Fairness in learning and prediction: Katrina Ligett, HUJI
The SIGecom Test of Time Award recognizes the author or authors of an influential paper or series of papers published between ten and twenty-five years ago that has significantly impacted research or applications exemplifying the interplay of economics and computation.
The 2023 SIGecom Test of Time Award will be given for papers published no earlier than 1998 and no later than 2013. Nominations are due by February 28th, 2023 (Anywhere on Earth), and must be made together with the endorsement letters by submission using this form. Any member of SIGecom may submit a nomination. Self-nomination is not allowed.
More details regarding the nomination procedure can be found here. The list of winners from previous years can be found here.
The 2023 Test of Time Award Committee
Alvin Roth, Stanford University
Moshe Tennenholtz, The Technion
Noam Nisan (chair), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Social Choice and Welfare will publish a special issue on “Fair Public Decision Making: Allocating budgets, seats, and probability” (submission deadline: May 1st, 2022) that will be concerned with apportionment, multi-winner elections, participatory budgeting, donor coordination, probabilistic social choice, sortition, multiple referenda, and related topics. See the Call for Papers.
Guest editors: Haris Aziz, Felix Brandt, Edith Elkind, Jérôme Lang
The SIGecom Test of Time Award recognizes the author or authors of an influential paper or series of papers that has significantly impacted research or applications exemplifying the interplay of economics and computation.To be eligible, a paper or series of papers must be on a topic in the intersection of economics and computation, and must have been first published in an archival journal or conference proceedings no less than ten years and no more than twenty-five years before the year the award is conferred. The 2022 ToT award will be given for papers published no earlier than 1997 and no later than 2012.
Nominations are due by February 28th, 2022 (Anywhere on Earth) and may be made by any member of ACM SIGecom (self-nomination is not allowed). A nomination also requires two or three endorsement letters that can speak to the lasting contribution, significance, and impact of the work. A new requirement this year is that the nominator must solicit and submit the endorsement letters to the Award Committee by the deadline. Full details are here: https://sigecom.org/award-tot-details.html It is expected that at least one of the nominated authors, if selected for the award, will attend the next ACM Conference on Economics and Computation to accept the award and give a presentation on the work. EC’22 is planned for July 11–15, 2022 and tentatively be held in Boulder, Colorado; the winner will have the option of presenting virtually, even if the conference is held in person.
The Award Committee welcomes questions from anyone considering or intending to submit a nomination. The committee may be contacted by email at sigecom-awards-tot@acm.org
The 2022 Test of Time Award Committee: Yeon-Koo Che, Columbia University; Noam Nisan, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; David Parkes (chair), Harvard University
The SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation Award recognizes an outstanding dissertation in the field of economics and computation. The award is conferred annually at the ACM Conference on Economics and Computation and includes a certificate, complimentary conference registration, and an honorarium of $1,500. A certificate may further be given to up to two runners-up. No award may be conferred if the nominations are judged not to meet the standards for the award.
To be eligible, a dissertation must be on a topic related to economics and computation and must have been defended successfully during the calendar year preceding the year of the award presentation.
The next SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation Award will be given for dissertations defended in 2021. Nominations are due by February 28th, 2022 (Anywhere on Earth), and must be submitted by email to the Award Committee with “2021 SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation Award” in the subject. A dissertation may be nominated simultaneously for both the SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation Award and the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.
Nominations may be made by any member of SIGecom and will typically come from the dissertation supervisor. Self-nomination is not allowed. Nominations for the award must include the following, preferably having items 1, 3, and 4 in a single PDF file:
A two-page summary of the dissertation, written by the nominee, including bibliographic data and links to publicly accessible versions of published papers based primarily on the dissertation.
An English-language version of the dissertation in a separate file.
An endorsement letter of no more than two pages by the nominator, arguing the merit of the dissertation, potential impact, and justification of the nomination. This document should also certify the dissertation defense date.
The names, email addresses, and affiliations of at least two additional endorsers.
The additional endorsement letters themselves should be sent directly by email, by the same deadline. These endorsements should be no longer than 500 words and should specify the relationship of the endorser to the nominee, contributions of the dissertation, and its potential impact on the field.
It is expected that a nominated candidate, if selected for the award, will attend the next ACM Conference on Economics and Computation on July 11–15, 2022, to accept the award and give a presentation on the dissertation work. The conference will tentatively be held in Boulder, Colorado. The award includes complimentary registration but does not cover travel or accommodation expenses to attend the conference.
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