<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br><br><span style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12pt;">Dear Colleagues,</span></div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; line-height: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; line-height: 16px;" class="">Please find attached the announcement of the Guido Altarelli Award here below.</div><div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; line-height: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; line-height: 16px;" class="">With best wishes for the new year, Elisabetta Gallo</div><div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; line-height: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; line-height: 16px;" class=""><div class=""> </div><div class=""> Guido Altarelli Award</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The Guido Altarelli Award honours the memory of the late Guido Altarelli, </div><div class="">a pioneer of the unravelling of the strong interaction and the structure </div><div class="">of hadrons, an outstanding communicator of particle physics, and a mentor </div><div class="">and strong supporter of Junior Scientists. The Guido Altarelli Award consists </div><div class="">of a certificate and prize money. It is awarded to a Junior Scientist for an </div><div class="">outstanding scientific contribution to the field covered by the DIS Conferences</div><div class="">series. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Candidates for the prize should have a maximum of eight years of research </div><div class="">experience (excluding career interruptions) following the PhD. The selection </div><div class="">is the task of the Selection Committee, which consists of two experimental </div><div class="">and two theoretical particle physicists, and a Chair, who are nominated by </div><div class="">the Chair of the International Advisory Committee (IAC) of the DIS Conference </div><div class="">in consultation with its members.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The 2016 Guido Altarelli Award will be presented during the DIS16 conference, </div><div class="">which will take place in Hamburg, Germany, in the week 11-15 April 2016.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Nominations should be sent to Elisabetta Gallo, Chair of the Selection </div><div class="">Committee, <a href="mailto:gallo@mail.desy.de" class="" target="_blank">gallo@mail.desy.de</a>, including:</div><div class="">- a letter of support for the candidate by the nominating person;</div><div class="">- the curriculum vitae of the candidate;</div><div class="">- a list of 3-5 publications in the last eight years, related to the</div><div class="">subject of the DIS conference, to which the candidate has given significant </div><div class="">contributions;</div><div class="">- the names of two colleagues, who could provide additional </div><div class="">information on the candidate</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Self-nominations are not allowed. 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