2017 Paul Ehrenfest Best Paper Award for Quantum Foundations
Call for Award Nomination-deadline on April 30th.

The Paul Ehrenfest Best Paper Award for Quantum Foundations recognizes outstanding and influential research contributions to the foundations of quantum physics. The aim of the award is to raise awareness for the field of quantum foundations, and to draw attention to new and interesting achievements in this area without delay. Last year’s prize was awarded to Ariel Bendersky, Gonzalo de la Torre, Gabriel Senno, Santiago Figueira and Antonio Acín, for their paper

Algorithmic Pseudorandomness in Quantum Setups,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 230402 (2016).

The Paul Ehrenfest Best Paper Award for Quantum Foundations is bestowed upon the most significant paper in foundations of quantum physics, theoretical or experimental, published in a peer-review journal in the five calendar years prior to the prize call. This means that this year we will accept submissions published between January 1st, 2013 and December 31st, 2017. Other than that, papers from all areas in the foundations of quantum physics, and by authors of any background, will be eligible to receive the award, see the rules.

Nominations and self-nominations for the present call are to include a copy of the nominated publication and a short (2-3 paragraph) statement of the relevance of the contribution. In the case of single-author publications, the name and contact information of the author is to be given. In the case of multi-author publications, a representative author who will officially accept the Ehrenfest Award in person shall be named and his contact information will be included. Consent from all authors as to which author will serve as the representative for the publication shall be obtained by the nominator, and a short confirmation to that effect should be included with the nomination.

The 2017 selection committee will be:

Eleni Diamanti, CNRS-Sorbonne, France
Philippe Grangier, Institut d'Optique, France
Miguel Navascués, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
Renato Renner, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Marek Zukowski, University of Gdansk, Poland

Miguel Navascués will be coordinating the selection process at IQOQI-Vienna and is looking forward to receiving your nomination or self-nomination at the e-mail address miguel.navascues@univie.ac.at by 30st April 2018!