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Doctoral Mentoring Program
May 13, 2007
In conjunction with:
The Sixth International Joint Conference on
AUTONOMOUS AGENTS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS
(AAMAS-2007)
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, May 14-18, 2007
http://www.aamas2007.org/doctoral.html
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AAMAS 2007 will include a doctoral mentoring program, intended for PhD
students. This program will provide an opportunity for students to
interact closely with established researchers in their fields, to
receive feedback on their work and to get advice on managing their careers.
Specifically, the goals of the program are:
- To match each student with an establish researcher in the community
(who will act as a mentor). The mentor will interact closely with the
student, will provide feedback on research, help form new contacts, etc.
- To allow students an opportunity to present their work to a friendly
audience of other students as well as mentors.
- To provide students with contacts and professional networking
opportunities.
The doctoral mentoring program will consist of opportunities for
interactions between mentors and their mentorees prior to the
conference, as well as a one day doctoral symposium.
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Submission Requirements
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We encourage submissions from graduate students within the Autonomous
Agents and Multi Agent Systems field. Based on the submissions, the
organizing committee will select a group of students that will be
invited to participate in the program. Participants will be expected to
take active part in all doctoral mentoring program activities.
Each submission should include the following two documents from the student:
1. A 2-page outline of their research programme, tagging each part
as “complete,” “in progress” or “to be done.” Of course, parts which
have not been done do not have to be as detailed.
2. Short (2-page) CV
Submissions should be sent in electronic form (PDF), to the doctoral
mentoring chairs: Kate Larson and Iyad Rahwan, by February 16, 2007.
In addition, the dissertation advisor should send a letter of
recommendation by e-mail to Kate and Iyad (also by February 16, 2007).
The letter should address the expected benefit of attending (to the
student), the significance of the research, and the expected date for
thesis submission. This letter can be sent in either plain text or PDF
format. The student's name must be clearly pointed out in the letter.
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Important Dates
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* February 16, 2007: Submission package due
* March 2, 2007: Notification of acceptance
* March 23, 2007: Camera-ready copy due
* May 13, 2007: Doctoral mentoring symposium
Note that the one-day symposium will be held the day before the
workshops and tutorials. This is so that students will be able to fully
participate in all conference programs.
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Doctoral Mentoring Chairs
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Kate Larson
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Iyad Rahwan
Institute of Informatics
British University in Dubai
P.O.Box 502216, Dubai
United Arab Emirates
(Fellow) School of Informatics
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, EH8 9LE
UK
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