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The Institute for Programming research and Algorithmics (IPA) is a national inter-university research school. Its principal goal is to educate researchers in the field of programming research and algorithmics; this research field comprises:

the study and development of formalisms, methods, and techniques to design, analyse, and construct software systems and components.

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    • Natasja Betting – van Liempt started as management assistant with IPA, taking over the role from Agnes van den Reek. Good luck Natasja!
    • Sangeeth Kochanthara won the award for the best IPA dissertation of 2023, for his thesis A Changing Landscape: On Safety & Open Source in Automated and Connected Driving. After receiving the award certificate, Sangeeth gave a keynote at the Fall Days 2024. The award comes with a prize of €1000.
    • Petar Vukmirović won the award for the best IPA dissertation of 2022, for his thesis Implementation of Higher-Order Superposition. Petar gave a keynote at the IPA Fall Days 2023 and received the award certificate and €1000 as monetary reward.
    • Alexander Bentkamp won the award for the best IPA dissertation of 2021, for his thesis Superposition for Higher-Order Logic. Alexander gave a keynote at the IPA Fall Days 2022 and received the award certificate and €1000 as monetary reward.
    • Thomas Neele won the award for the best IPA dissertation of 2020, for his thesis Reductions for Parity Games and Model Checking. Thomas received the award certificate and gave a keynote at a March 2022 IPA event in Utrecht.