DESCRIPTION OF THE AWARD

This award is addressed to PhD students and young researchers (age less than 35 years on 31 August 2023) working in the area of Classification, Clustering and related topics who submit, as the first author, a paper to the CLADAG Conference 2023, applying for this competition. The paper is essentially the work of the PhD student/Young researcher. The paper should involve original methodological research, a novel application, or software related to some aspect of Classification, Clustering, Data Science and related topics.

APPLICABILITY AND DISBURSEMENT OF THE AWARD

Awards. 1000 euros, plus a certificate (up to two awards).

Applicability. The number of awards is independent of the number of applications, just on quality.

Disbursement of the award. It is compulsory that a candidate who has been selected for an award attends the CLADAG conference and presents a paper in a scientific session. Under this condition, the CLADAG Treasurer (or a designated representative by the President of CLADAG) will pay the award and give a certificate to the winners during the ceremony for awards of the CLADAG Conference.

APPLICATION FOR THE AWARD

The competition candidates must submit a paper to the CLADAG conference. The candidate has to provide:

• an application form (deadline expired) with the candidate’s name and contact details;
• a CV of the candidate with information according to the provided template (CV template). Please send your CV to cladag2023@unisa.it.

DEADLINE

The deadline for nomination is 20 June 2023 30 June 2023.
The Award Committee does not guarantee that nominations received after that would be considered.

AWARDS COMMITTEE

Cinzia Viroli (CLADAG President), Leonardo Grilli, Maurizio Vichi