Third Brockett-Willems Outstanding Paper Award
Selection Criteria:
Originality, relevance, and clarity. The award will, ideally, honor a breakthrough, not ratify a paper’s popularity or highly cited status.
Eligibility:
Papers published in Systems & Control Letters during the two-year period of January 2021 through December 2022. Papers coauthored by SCL's current Editor-in-Chief (Krstic), Senior Editors (Andrieu, Borkar, Cao, Goebel), committee chair, and committee members are not eligible.
Nomination Process:
Nominations should be submitted to the selection committee chair, Lars Grüne, by email to lars.gruene@uni-bayreuth.de. The deadline is June 30, 2023. A single letter of nomination should be submitted, along with the nominated paper, both collated into a single PDF file. The nomination letter should not exceed two pages (but can be as brief as a sentence), it can be signed by multiple nominators, and it should contain the authors' names, paper title, pages, and the year of publication.
Selection Process:
Committee chair Grüne will appoint a selection committee that includes four additional members. If members of the selection committee consider it necessary to strengthen the nomination pool, they may place nominations into the pool but without providing a nomination letter (an internally nominated paper needs to “speak for itself”), as an internal nomination letter would require a recusal of the committee member-nominator.
Prize:
$1,000, funded by Elsevier
