The International Society for Geometry and Graphics imparts three awards, The Steve M. Slaby Award, The Loyal Friends of ICGGs Award, and The ISGG Young Researcher Award.
The Steve M. Slaby Award
The Steve M. Slaby Award is dedicated to an individual for his/her accomplishment, outstanding life achievement and superlative leadership and influential stature in the Geometry and Graphics Education community, especially at the international level. This award is to be a timely acknowledgement and reward for the contribution of the awardees while still alive and preferably active.
History
The Steve M. Slaby Award was founded by Harold Santo (Portugal) in 1991, when he was the president of “Graphics Science Promotion and Publications“ GRASP and organized the international conference COMPUGRAPHICS ’91. He dedicated the Award “… to an individual for his/her accomplishment, life achievement, and very outstanding, leading and influential stature in the Graphics Education field, especially at the international level… ”, and he stated that “… this Award is therefore also a timely opportunity to acknowledge and reward the contribution (of the distinguished person) during his/her lifetime… ”.
These specifications clearly justify that the Award be named after Steve M. Slaby, Professor (1922-2008), then Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, an outstanding scholar in graphics science and a driving force in the dissemination and betterment of education and research in the field. He personifies recipients of such a prize.
It was planned to present the Award biennially in connection with international conferences on geometry and graphics, and the first and second winner of this Award were Gary Bertoline (1995) and Andries van Dam (1997), both from the USA. In one of his last letters Harold Santo passed the torch to the International Society for Geometry and Graphics ISGG to indefinitely extend his then recently established award into an enduring tradition of biannual selection and presentation. Fulfilling Harold Santo’s late wish the board members of the ISGG reestablished presentation of the Steve M. Slabe Award. Since 2004 the award is announced and bestowed as part of ICGG events at the biannual conference.
Nomination
To nominate an individual for the 2020 Steve M. Slaby Award, please provide the following information via our web form.
- Name of nominee
- Institutional affiliation
- Success as a teacher as evidenced by competence in a subject and ability to inspire students to high achievement.
- Improvement of tools for and contributions to teaching, as evidenced by the development of subject matter (textbooks, etc.), courses and curricula, diagrams or models, laboratory or teaching equipment, and other activities.
- Improvement of teaching through activities, such as creation of professional development or effective teaching institutes, testing or guidance programs, promotion of inter-institutional or industry/education cooperative programs, or the coordination and development of fields of subject matter.
- Scholarly contributions to technical, scientific or artistics literature, significant previous honors, awards, etc.
Nominees do not need to be a member of ISGG.
Election
The Steve M. Slaby awardee is elected by three past chairs of ISGG, the election is conducted by its current chair.
Past Awardees
2024: Cornelie Leopold (Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany) and Daniela Velichová (Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia)
2022: Hans-Peter Schröcker (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
2018: Otto Röschel (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
2014: Manfred Husty (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
2012: Emiko Tsutsumi (Otsuma Women’s University, Japan)
2010: Paul Zsombor-Murray (McGill University, Canada)
2008: Gunter Weiss (TU Dresden, Germany)
2006: Kenjiro Suzuki (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
2004: Hellmuth Stachel (University of Technology Vienna, Austria)
1997: Andries van Dam (Brown University, USA)
1995: Gary Bertoline (Purdue University, USA)
The Loyal Friends of ICGGs Award
The Loyal Friends of ICGGs Award, established at the ICGG2022, is granted to individuals recognized as distinguished participants in the Conference series of ISGG. First awardees were Frank Maxfield Croft (USA) and Paul Zsombor-Murray (Canada), as participants since the first Conference (Vancouver, 1978). The award is granted every two years at the ICGG. The committee is formed by the Board of Regents of ISGG, and conducted by the President in Office of ISGG. The call for nomination is sent by the ISGG President at least two months before the Conference, and it remains open for three weeks. The evaluation process ends no later than one month before the Conference.
History
First Awardees were Frank Maxfield Croft (USA) and Paul Zsombor-Murray (Canada), at the ICGG2022 (Brazil), as assiduous participants in the ICGGs since the first Conference (Vancouver, 1978). Second Awardee was Liang-Yee Cheng, at the ICGG2024 (Japan), as the Executive Chairman of two subsequent ICGGs, organized during the COVID-19 pandemic spread, in 2020/21 and in 2022, as innovative online meetings.
Nomination
To nominate an individual for the the 2026 Loyal Friends of ICGGs Award, please provide the following information:
- Name of nominee
- Institutional affiliation and email
- Motivation (max 2.000 characters)
The ISGG Young Researcher Award
Created by the International Society for Geometry and Graphics (ISGG), the “ISGG Young Researcher Award”’ was established to recognize and motivate young participants (individuals) of the International Conference on Geometry and Graphics (ICGG) for their brilliant works.
With this award ISGG acknowledges either:
- A notable research work in the fields of Geometry and Graphics:
- accepted in the upcoming ICGG conference, or
- accepted or published in a recognized peer-reviewed scientific journal or conference proceedings in the fields of Geometry and Graphics.
- A significant contribution of lasting value to Graphics Education at all levels.
The award is granted biennially and presented at a formal ceremony during the ICGG. The award, presented to the laureates, consists of a certificate.
The laureates will deliver an online lecture, scheduled after the ICGG according to their availability. The lectures should address a technical or scientific topic of their work. The recorded lectures will be published on ISGG’s channels.
History
The ISGG Young Researcher Award is being implemented and will be awarded for the first time at ICGG 2026.
Nomination
Faculty members, researchers or students who are completing 35 years old or younger in the year of the call for the nomination (the year before the upcoming ICGG) are eligible to self-nominate for the award. Applicants must submit their nominations to the ISGG Board Committee by providing the following information via our web form.
- Name of nominee
- Institutional affiliation, country, and email
- Nature of the work:
- research work or
- contribution of lasting value to Graphics Education
and submit the following documents electronically according to the instructions that will be sent to the applicant by email:
- Summary of curriculum vitae of the applicant.
- In case of research work in the fields of Geometry and Graphics, the manuscript of the paper. In case of contribution to Graphics Education, the report on the contribution.
- A graphical highlight of the paper or the contribution.
For the details about the award as well as the instructions and important dates and periods, please refer to the Call for ISGG Young Researcher Award, edition ICGG2026.
Important dates and periods
For the ICGG2026 edition of the ISGG Young Researcher Award, the following dates and periods have been set:
- Call for submissions begins: November 3, 2025.
- Nomination submission period: January 3 to April 12, 2026.
- Judging results announcement: May 11, 2026.
- Award ceremony: during the ICGG2026 closing ceremony.
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