Dear Sir/Madam, Could you please forward this call for papers for the Canadian AI 2011 Graduate Student Symposium to your faculty and grad student mailing lists?
Thanks a lot, Cristina Manfredotti Co-Chair AI 2011 Graduate Student Symposium PS: attached you find a flyer about the Symposium in case you would like to post it at your University. ********************************************************************** 24th CANADIAN AI http://www.canadianai.ca/AI_2011/ GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM https://sites.google.com/site/caigradstudsymposium/ ********************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS – Deadline January 24th, 2011 AI 2011, the twenty-forth Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, invites graduate students to submit extended abstracts of their thesis for possible inclusion in the AI 2011 Graduate Student Symposium and the AI 2011 proceedings published by Springer. The Symposium provides an opportunity for Master and PhD students to discuss and explore their research interests and career objectives with their peers and with a panel of established researchers in Artificial Intelligence, helping to develop a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research. The symposium will be a one-day pre-conference event, where students of accepted abstracts will be invited to give a presentation on their thesis work before a group of peers as well as a small team of expert AI researchers who would offer a critique of each presentation and provide support, advice, and mentoring. Each student may also be invited to participate in the poster session during the AI 2011 main conference. In addition, a small selection of the best student submissions may be invited to give a short talk during the main conference. PhD and Master’s students are invited to submit a 4-page summary of their thesis work from all areas of Artificial Intelligence. It is not expected that submissions will consist of polished work with complete results; moreover, summaries of completed projects will not be accepted. Instead, the weight will be placed on the significance of the work, the proposed ideas or solutions, and the overall presentation. The abstract should clearly state the problem being addressed, the proposed plan of research and the description of the progress to date. To benefit the most from the event, applicants should be in their 2nd or 3rd year of studies and nearly completing their thesis proposal. All submissions must be written in English. Abstracts may be up to 4 pages in length and must be formatted according to Springer's LNCS style. Please follow the instructions for authors at Springer's website (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). The use of the LaTeX2e style file available at Springer's website is strongly encouraged. The abstract submission should be accompanied with the following materials: 1. A cover letter stating your name, institution, supervisor’s name and email address, program start date, expected graduation date, and 2-5 keywords describing your work. Also include a list of your refereed and non-refereed publications and presentations at national and international forums. 2. A letter from your thesis advisor that includes an assessment of the current status of your thesis research, and an expected date for thesis submission. In addition, your advisor should indicate what he or she hopes you would gain from participation in the symposium. 3. A short (one page or less) statement of what you expect to gain from presenting and participating in the symposium, as well as what you think you can contribute to the symposium. For best consideration, your statement must address both of these expectations. Please combine all materials into one PDF document. To submit your work, please go to AI 2011 - Graduate Student Symposium Submission Server at EasyChair and follow the instructions: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caigss11. Each abstract will be reviewed by a mixed team of both student applicants and program committee members. Each student submitting a paper to the Symposium is expected to participate in the reviewing process. Presenting students will be selected based on clarity of the submission, stage of research, and evidence of promise such as published papers or technical reports. Partial financial assistance for travel and accommodations may be available to a limited number of students presenting at the Symposium. All students are encouraged to attend and participate in the Symposium, whether or not they apply to present their work. All the selected student presenters are expected to actively participate in the full Symposium, as we envision participants gaining as much by interacting with their peers as by having their presentations critiqued by the faculty panel. The symposium will also include an invited talk from a senior faculty member as well as a career panel where AI researchers from both industry and academia will discuss possible career paths for graduating students. Important Dates Full paper submission due: January 24th, 2011 Notification of acceptance: February 25th, 2011 Final paper due: March 6th, 2011 Graduate Student Symposium: May 24th, 2011 Co-Chairs Svetlana Kiritchenko, National Research Council Canada Maria Fernanda Caropreso, Defence R&D, Canada Cristina Manfredotti, University of Regina Contacts Svetlana Kiritchenko, National Research Council Canada svetlana.kiritche...@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca Cristina Manfredotti, University of Regina cristina.manfredo...@gmail.com -- ********************************************** Cristina Manfredotti Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Regina Department of Computer Science College West, Rm 308.16 3737 Wascana Parkway Regina, Saskatchewan S4S 0A2, Canada Tel. (office) +1-3065855207 http://www2.cs.uregina.ca/~manfredc/ *********************************************** _______________________________________________ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
