[We apologise if you receive multiple copies of this message] IPDPS 2012 PhD Forum CALL FOR POSTERS
[Upcoming Deadline]: 20 January 2012 - Poster submission deadline The IPDPS PhD Forum focuses on current graduate students working toward a PhD in broadly defined areas related to parallel and distributed processing. This forum at IPDPS offers graduate students an opportunity to present a research poster describing their ongoing dissertation to the entire IPDPS conference audience. It is also an opportunity to discuss their research with experts in academia and industry during the conference and to make useful contacts regarding future career opportunities related to their research. Moreover, the authors may describe their dissertation proposal and preliminary results in a short paper, which will be published with the proceedings of the IPDPS Workshops. These papers will be available through the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library. This event follows previous successful PhD Forums held at IPDPS since 2008 in Miami. This last year in Anchorage, twenty-seven posters were presented and three were selected for special awards. PLEASE NOTE: Students who had a poster selected last year for presentation are not eligible to submit to this year's PhD Forum. View Chinese version of Call for Posters (PDF) KEY DATES 20 January 2012 Submission deadline 14 February 2012 Submission of faculty endorsement 22 February 2012 Acceptance notification sent 29 February 2012 Camera-ready papers (up to 4 pages) HOW TO APPLY FOR PARTICIPATION To apply for participation in the IPDPS 2012 PhD Forum, students must submit a summary of their PhD research or dissertation proposal prior to January 20, 2012. Each submission will have a PhD student as the sole author or as the primary author with his/her thesis advisor(s) as secondary author(s). Submissions should not exceed 4 pages. The recommended format is the same as for the main conference papers: LaTex Package (ZIP), Word Template (ZIP). The submission should contain the following information: 1. Title, author, advisor(s), number of years in PhD program; 2. Description of the problem, of the proposed approach, and of the research methodology adopted; 3. Significance of the research; 4. Related work and their shortcomings; and 5. Results obtained so far and remaining objectives and challenges. Submit Here >> (http://edas.info/N11989) Each submission MUST be backed by a specific endorsement of the official PhD advisor(s), which may be in addition to the four-page research description. This endorsement must be submitted by February 14, 2012. An endorsement is a formal letter signed by the applicant student's PhD supervisor, stating the following: I hereby certify that <name> is registered as a PhD student under my supervision since <date> at <affiliation>. He/she is now working for his/her PhD for the <nth> year. I endorse the submission of his/her manuscript to the IPDPS 2012 PhD Forum. The signed letter should be scanned to a pdf file and uploaded to the EDAS site at the page of the associated submission. REVIEW PROCESS A scientific committee, co-chaired by Prof. Luc Bougé and Prof. Bo Hong, will evaluate submissions. This committee will be drawn mainly from the members of the Program Committee of the main conference and colleagues recommended by them. Notification of committee decisions will be sent by February 22, 2012. POSTER PRESENTATIONS & PAPERS The authors of selected submissions will be required to prepare a poster, which will be displayed on the 2nd and 3rd days of the conference. At the end of the two days of the posters being displayed, there will be a formal session during which conference attendees may view posters and talk one-on-one with each PhD Forum poster presenter. Those selected to present posters may also submit a short paper describing their work for publication in the IPDPS 2012 proceedings. Not to exceed four (4) pages, the PhD Forum paper submission must be prepared to conform with proceedings camera ready requirements and submitted by February 29, 2012. TRAVEL AWARD OPPORTUNITY Participants in the IPDPS PhD Forum will be eligible for TCPP Travel Grants for student authors at IPDPS 2012 and are encouraged to apply by the deadline. Application details will be posted by TCPP on the IPDPS Website in February. Last year, many of the PhD Forum authors who applied received travel grant support. Note that all student authors must have registered to be eligible for support, and grants are made in the form of reimbursement post-conference. Please see the IPDPS website for more details as they are posted. SPONSORSHIP The IPDPS PhD Forum is sponsored by the Technical Committee on Parallel Processing of the IEEE Computer Society as part of its mission to promote parallel processing research and education, especially at the PhD level. _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
