European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) is an international organization founded in 1972. Its aim is to facilitate the exchange of ideas and results among theoretical computer scientists as well as to stimulate cooperation between the theoretical and the practical community in computer science.

The 2026 Alonzo Church Award

The 2026 Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation is presented to

Pablo Barceló, Leonid Libkin, Wim Martens, Juan Reutter, Miguel Romero, Moshe Vardi and Domagoj Vrgoč

for laying foundations of logical languages for querying property graphs that found adoption in the SQL and GQL international standards within a decade

The 2026 Gödel Prize

The 2026 Gödel Prize is awarded to

Ilias Diakonikolas, Gautam Kamath, Daniel Kane, Jerry Li, Ankur Moitra and Alistair Stewart

for their paper

"Robust Estimators in High Dimensions without the Computational Intractability", SIAM Journal on Computing, 48(2): 742-864, 2019.

The EATCS Award 2026 - Laudation for Yishay Mansour

The EATCS Award committee selects

Yishay Mansour

as the recipient of the 2026 EATCS Award.

Presburger Award 2026 – Laudatio

The 2026 Presburger Award Committee has chosen Vincent Cohen-Addad and Gautam Kamath as joint recipients of the 2026 EATCS Presburger Award for Young Scientists.

EATCS honours three outstanding PhD theses with the EATCS Distinguished Dissertation Award for 2025

EATCS is proud to announce that, after examining the nominations received from our research community, the EATCS Distinguished Dissertation Award Committee 2025, consisting of Standa Zivny (chair), Petra Berenbrink, Loukas Georgiadis, Kasper Green Larsen and Emanuela Merellihas selected the following three theses as recipients of the EATCS Distinguished Dissertation Award for 2025: