Dr. George K. Chang, one of the ProVAL developers and workshop instructors, won a honorary 2007 Kummer Lecture Award from the ASTM International.
Established in 1968 by Committee E17 on Vehicle-Pavement Systems in honor of Hartwig W. Kummer, who contributed significantly to the advancement of vehicle-pavement systems through personal accomplishments and by stimulating research and encouraging the pursuit of knowledge. ASTM also issued a press release on its website while a pdf version is posted here.
Here are the abstract and presentation slides of Dr. Chang's acceptance Kummer Lecture Quantifying the Impact of Jointed Concrete Pavement Curling and Warping on Pavement Roughness. A full paper and a video of presentation of the same title was published in SURF 2008.