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      Highlights of the Year</h2>
        <h3 class="titre3">Highlights of the Year</h3>
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            <p class="notaparagraph"><a name="uid17"> </a>Ugo Dal Lago won the 2015 award of
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            <p class="notaparagraph"><a name="uid20"> </a>Fabrizio Montesi, external collaborator in Focus,
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Languages and Systems) `Best PhD Dissertation Award 2014'.</p>
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        <h6 class="titre4">Best Paper Award: </h6>
        <a href="./bibliography.html#focus-2015-bid0">[44]</a>
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          <dd>D. <span class="smallcap">Hirschkoff</span>, J.-M. <span class="smallcap">Madiot</span>, X. <span class="smallcap">Xu</span>.<br/><span class="title-anal">A behavioural theory for a π-calculus with preorders</span>, in: <span class="title-mono">Proceedings of 6th IPM International Conference on Fundamentals of Software Engineering (FSEN 2015)</span><span>, Teheran, Iran</span>, LNCS, Springer Verlag, April 2015, This paper obtained the best paper award at the conference FSEN'2015. A revised version of this paper has been published in JLAMP (Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming), Volume 84, Issue 6, November 2015, Pages 806–825. 2014.<br/><a href="https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01246094">https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01246094</a></dd>
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