The Classification Society Distinguished Dissertation Award supported by Chapman and Hall/CRC
The Award will be for the best PhD (or approximately equivalent doctoral) dissertation nominated by an annual deadline. The theme is clustering, classification, related areas of data analysis, encompassing both associated theory and/or applications. Typical criteria for nomination for the Award include: (i) the most innovative or impressive work in theory/methodology, or the most innovative or well developed application(s); and (ii) the literature review has to be thorough. For the next submission deadline, 1 January 2011, nominated PhDs have to have been successfully completed in the 2010 calendar year. In 2011 the Award totals US$500 in book vouchers from Chapman and Hall/CRC. The winner will be invited to make a presentation in a special plenary session at the CS Annual Meeting. CS will cover travel expenses to the 2011 Annual Meeting of at most US$1000 for a North American based Award winner or at most US$1500 for an Award winner based elsewhere. Full information on the award, including the nomination and evaluation processes, can be found at the CS website: http://www.classification-society.org/csna/dissaward2011.html Contact for information and nominations: prinssc (at) jmu (.) edu ---------------------------------------------- CLASS-L list. Instructions: http://www.classification-society.org/csna/lists.html#class-l
