COMSNETS 2011 Ph.D STUDENT FORUM

The COMSNETS 2011 PhD student forum is an event where the presenters will exclusively be PhD students, as the event name suggests. The goals of this event are:

1. To enable PhD students to get quality feedback on their ongoing work, from the conference participants.
2. To enable interaction among PhD students, and between PhD students and potential employers!

Thus PhD students as well as potential employers stand to gain from this forum.

Event Structure

The event will be structured as a series of 12-15 minute presentations (strictly timed!). Depending on the participation, we may have two parallel tracks. There will be a best student presentation award.

Students selected for participation will be expected to go through a feedback-based revision process for their presentation, prior to the conference. This is to have improved quality as well as better control over time at the conference session.

Conference Attendance Support

The PhD student participants selected for this forum will automatically be eligible for conference attendance support. This will be in terms of a travel grant and substantial registration fee support.

Important Dates

• Submission date: 15 October 2010
• Notification date: 26 November 2010

What to Submit

Students have to submit two things:

1. A 15-minute presentation, as they would be presenting at the conference if their submission is selected. This presentation should include:
   • The PhD problem motivation and problem statement
   • A crisp view of related work (i.e. why the problem is still unsolved)
   • An overview of the technical contributions thus far, including the main results and their implications
   The presentation should typically be about 8-10 slides. Including many more slides is likely to be counter-productive.
2. A 2-page extended abstract to help the reader understand the above slides. This abstract may refer to figures, tables, or graphs in the presentation slides.

The topics of interest for this forum are the same as for the main COMSNETS-2011 conference.

Clarification: Since there is no publication involved with this event, students can submit already completed/published work, or even work currently under submission elsewhere (including COMSNETS-2011).

How to Submit

Please watch the PhD forum web-page for further instructions.

Evaluation Process

The students' submissions will be evaluated by a technical program committee constituted for this purpose.

Contact

If you have any queries, please contact the PhD Forum Chair, Bhaskaran Raman at "username: br" @ "domain: cse.iitb.ac.in".

 

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