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                        | IFAC Awards will be presented at the following ceremonies.   |  
                        | IFAC AWARDS at OPENING CEREMONY [July 6, 17:30 - 18:30] |  
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                              |  | Giorgio Quazza Medal to Professor Graham Goodwin |  
                              |  | Nathaniel B. Nichols Medal to Professor Gerd Hirzinger |  
                              |  | In addition, IFAC advisors will be appointmented during this ceremony. |  
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                        | IFAC JOURNAL AWARD CEREMONY [July 8, 18:30 - 19:30] |  
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                        | Location: Room 402, Conference Room, 4th Floor |  |  |  
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                              |  | Automatica Prize Paper Award' |  
                              |  | Control Engineering Practice Prize Paper Award |  
                              |  | Journal of Process Control Prize Paper Award |  
                              |  | Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence Prize Paper Award |  
                              |  | Mechatronics Prize Paper Award |  
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                        | IFAC FELLOW AWARD CEREMONY [July 10, 18:30 - 19:30] |  
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                        | Location: Rpp, 401, Conference Room, 4th Floor |  |  
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                        |  | The IFAC Fellow Award is given to persons who have made outstanding and extraordinary contributions in the field of interest of IFAC, in the role as an Engineer/Scientist, Technical Leader, or Educator. |  
                        |  | Fellows elected in 2008 |  
                        |  | Bittanti, Sergio I Braatz, Richard I Camacho, Eduardo I Cao, Xi-Ren I Cassandras, Christos I Chai, Tian-You I Cheng, Dai-Zhan I Edgar, Thomas I Gottzein, Eveline I Haddad, Abraham I Krstic, Miroslav I Kurzhanski, Alexander I Lewis, Frank I Morari, Manfred I Safonov, Michael I Vicino, Antonio 
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                        | CONGRESS AWARDS at CLOSING CEREMONY [July 11, 16:30 -18:00] |  
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                        | Location: Auditorium, 3rd Floor |  |  
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                        |  | IFAC Congress Young Author Prize
 
                            
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                                  This prize consists of a certificate and a monetary award of USD1,000. The criteria include high technical quality and good presentation of results. All authors must be under 35 years of age. A nomination form from a colleague, mentor, supervisor, or eligible author himself/herself should be submitted to IFAC CMMS. |  
                            
                              | Finalists: - Mamoun Abdel-Hafez, The Autocovariance Least Squares Technique for GPS Interference/Jamming Detection - Takenori Atsumi, Disturbance Suppression beyond Nyquist Frequency in Hard Disk Drives - Lachlan Blackhall & Michael Rotkowitz, Recursive Sparse Estimation using a Gaussian Sum Filter- Marcello Colledani, Integrated Analysis of Quality and Production Logistics Performance in Asynchronous Manufacturing Lines
 - Tao Li, Asymptotically Unbiased Average Consensus Under Measurement Noises and Fixed Topologies
 
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                        |  | IFAC Congress Application Paper Prize 
 
                            
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                                  This prize consists of a certificate and a monetary award of USD1,000. The criteria include high technical quality and good presentation of the results in the area of control applications. A nomination form from a colleague or the author himself/herself should be submitted to IFAC CMMS. It is also possible for the reviewer to recommend during the reviewing process. |  |  |  |  
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                        |  | Finalists: - Takenori Atsumi, Disturbance Suppression beyond Nyquist Frequency in Hard Disk Drives- Christian Benatzky, Martin Kozek, Alexander Schirrer, & Anton Stribersky, Vibration Damping of a Flexible Car Body Structure Using Piezo-Stack Actuators
 - Emery N. Brown, Ming Cheng, Emad Eskandar, Sridevi V. Sarma, & Ziv Williams, Modeling Neural Spiking Activity in the Sub-Thalamic Nucleus of Parkinson's Patients and Healthy Primates.- Tianyou Chai, Jinliang Ding, & Fenghua Wu, Hybrid Intelligent Control for Optimal Operation of Shaft Furnace Process
 - Tomohiko Jimbo & Yoshikazu Hayakawa, Physical-Model-Based Control of Engine Cold Start via Role State Variables
 
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                        |  | IFAC Congress Poster Paper Prize 
 
                            
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                                  This prize consists of a certificate and a monetary award of USD1,000. A selection committee will nominate candidates. The criteria include high technical quality and good presentation.
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                        |  | IFAC Congress Best Video Prize |  
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                                  This prize consists of a certificate and a monetary award of USD1,000. A selection committee will nominate candidates. The criteria include technical relevance, quality, contributions, and video and audio quality.
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                      Outstanding Service Awards in 2008
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                      This award is presented to IFAC officials who have served and contributed substantially to IFAC in various capacities, according to a criterion set by the Council. The award consists of a certificate and a lapel pin and is presented to the candidates on the occasion of IFAC World Congresses.
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