http://ecir2013.org/, Moscow, Russia, March 24-27, 2013
Call for Proposal for Doctoral Consortium
http://ecir2013.org/phdcons.
We invite doctoral students to the Doctoral Consortium held in conjunction with the main conference of ECIR 2013. The Doctoral Consortium aims to provide a constructive setting for presentations and discussions of doctoral students’ research projects with senior researchers and other participating students. The two main goals of the Doctoral Consortium are: 1) to advise students regarding current critical issues in their research; and 2) to make students aware of the strengths and weakness of their research as viewed from different perspectives. The Doctoral Consortium is aimed for students in the middle of their thesis projects; at minimum, students ought to have formulated their research problem, theoretical framework and suggested methods, and at maximum, students ought to have just initiated data analysis.
Seminar outline
The Doctoral Consortium will take place on Sunday, March 24, 2013, at the ECIR 2013 venue, and participation is by invitation only. The format is planned as follows: The doctoral students will present summaries of their work to other participating doctoral students and the senior researchers. Each presentation will be followed by a plenary discussion, and individual discussion with one senior advising researcher. The discussions in the group and with the advisors are intended to help the doctoral student to reflect on and carry on with their thesis work.
Fees
Participation to the Doctoral Consortium is free of charge.
Important dates
• January 18, 2013: Deadline for research proposals
• January 25, 2013: Notification of acceptance
• February 15, 2013: Final version of proposals due
• March 11, 2013: Presentation slides due
• March 24, 2013: Doctoral Consortium
Topics
Please refer to the topics suggested at the main conference CFP.
http://ecir2013.org/cfp.xml
Format
Proposals must be written in English and formatted following the LNCS author guidelines (http://www.springer.com/
• Title of research proposal, Name of student, Stage of degree (e.g., 2nd year PhD), Affiliation, Name of supervisor(s)
• Abstract
• Motivation
• Research questions
• (Planned or ongoing) Methodology
• Progress made so far
• Future plan
• References
Submission
Please go to https://www.easychair.org/
Selection Criteria
Depending on the number of submissions, we will accept 6 to 8 proposals. The doctoral consortium chairs will consider the following aspects of submissions when assessments are required.
• Relevance to the topics written above
• Stage of degree (2nd/3rd year students will be preferred to 1st or 4th/5th year students)
• Clarity and coherency of research proposal
Notebook
A seminar notebook will be compiled using the camera-ready copy of accepted research proposals. However, the research proposals will not be published.
Mentors
Mentors will be chosen based on the areas of accepted research proposals and will be announced later.
Credit, certificate and grants
It is recommended that students participating in the Doctoral Consortium will be awarded 2 credits, ECTS or equivalent, by their home department. Students will be presented with a certificate upon completed participation in the Doctoral Consortium.
Contact
If you have any enquiries regarding the Doctoral Consortium, please contact the chairs.
Hideo Joho (hideo at slis.tsukuba.ac.jp) and Dmitriy Ignatov (dmitrii.ignatov at gmail.com)
ECIR 2013 Doctoral Consortium Chairs
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