2014 Nerode Prize

17 Mar 2014 - 16:22:29 in Achievement

2014 Nerode Prize

Professor Rod Downey is co-author of one of two papers to be awarded the 2014 Nerode Prize for outstanding papers in

multivariate algorithmics and complexity, published in the 10 years before the award. Peter Widmayer, chair of the prize committee, made the announcement of the prizes last week. Rod's paper that was selected is:

"On problems without polynomial kernels”,

Hans L. Bodlaender, Rodney G. Downey, Michael R. Fellows and Danny Hermelin, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 2009

The prize will be awarded at the International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation, to be held in Wroclaw, Poland this September.

The School is delighted to acknowledge this further recognition of Rod’s outstanding scholarship and academic leadership in the field of computability and complexity.

Information about the prize can be found at http://www.eatcs.org/index.php/nerode-prize