- From: Ivan José Varzinczak <ijv@acm.org>
- Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 21:37:35 -0300
- To: public-sparql-dev@w3.org
KR 2016 DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM Call for Applications Cape Town, South Africa 25-29 April 2016 http://kr.org/KR2016/ The 15th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2016) invites PhD students to apply for the Doctoral Consortium program. 1) AIMS AND SCOPE The Doctoral Consortium (DC) is a student mentoring program that introduces students to senior researchers with similar research interests. The aims of the consortium are: - to provide a forum for students to present their current research, and receive feedback from other students and senior researchers; - to promote contacts among PhD students working in similar areas; - to support students with information and advice on academic, research and industrial careers. The DC is intended for PhD students who have a specific research proposal and some preliminary results, but who have sufficient time prior to completing their dissertation to benefit from the consortium experience. Preference will be given to students satisfying these criteria, but well-motivated applications from students who are at earlier or later stages of their doctoral studies will still be considered. 2) STUDENT SPONSORSHIPS Thanks to the generous support of our sponsors, KR will provide registration and accommodation for selected students. We expect to be able to provide support for all Doctoral Consortium participants that volunteer to help with local organization. Additionally, there is dedicated NSF funding to help cover the travel costs of Doctoral Consortium participants from US universities. More details on student support can be found on the KR website. 3) APPLICATION SUBMISSION Applications must be submitted by email to the following address: kr2016dc@gmail.com Each application must contain the following materials: - Thesis summary. A description of the problem being addressed, your motivation for addressing the problem, proposed plan of research, the progress to date (what you have already achieved and what remains to be done), and related work. It must be four pages maximum in AAAI style (http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php). - Curriculum Vitae. A description of your background and relevant experience (research, education, employment). - Letter of recommendation. A letter from your thesis advisor that states that he/she supports your participation in the DC. - Indication of whether you request a sponsored studentship, and if so, whether you volunteer to help with local organization during KR, DL, and NMR. Optionally, you can suggest 3-5 potential mentors with similar research interests as you, who could give you good advice on technical aspects of your work, and/or your career. The most preferred way of submission is to combine the thesis summary and the letter of recommendation (and, optionally, the list of suggested mentors) into a single PDF document. If you cannot do that, archive the documents into a single zip file. 4) IMPORTANT DATES - 21 December 2015: Deadline for application - 15 January 2015: Acceptance notification - 25-29 April 2015: Doctoral consortium For further information, please contact the Doctoral Consortium chairs: Meghyn Bienvenu, CNRS (meghyn.bienvenu@lirmm.fr) Joohyung Lee, Arizona State University (joolee@asu.edu) -- Ivan José Varzinczak Department of Computer Science - Institute of Mathematics Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Homepage: http://member.acm.org/~ijv
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