26 Aug 2011
Oslo, Norway
--------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Abstracts Doctoral Symposium affiliated with the 18th International Symposium on Fundamentals of Computation Theory Oslo, NORWAY August 26, 2011 web: http://fct11.ifi.uio.no/index.php?n=Workshops.DoctoralSymposium ----- Description of the Event ----- The aim of the Doctoral Symposium @ FCT'11 is to provide a platform for PhD students and young researchers who recently completed their doctoral studies, to present new results related to the foundations of computing theory and receive feedback on their research. Excellent master students working in theoretical fields of CS are also encouraged to contribute. Moreover, the DS wants to offer students the opportunity to attend talks in the main conference and to interact with established researchers in their fields. It is warmly encouraged that FCT participants attend the DS also. A non-exhaustive list of topics of interest is available at the FCT home. http://fct11.ifi.uio.no The acceptance of the presentations is based on a two page abstract (incl. references). The accepted abstracts will be available at the workshop and published together in a technical report by the University of Oslo. It is allowed (and encouraged) to send results that have been published at other conferences or journals or that are work in progress. Acceptance is conditioned on one of the student authors holding a 15-25 min (exact time slot to be decided later) presentation in the doctoral symposium. Student reductions of participation fees and scholarships are planned; see the registration page for updates. ----- Important Dates ----- Submission Deadline: Sunday, 12. June 2011 Author Notification: Sunday, 26. June 2011 Camera ready abstract: Friday 1. July 2011 DS day: Friday 26. August 2011 FCT days: 22 - 25. August 2011 ----- Submissions ----- Authors are encouraged to submit a 2 page extended abstract prepared according to Springer's guidelines for the LNCS series, preferably using LaTeX with the llncs document class. Please do not modify font size, spacing, margins, etc of the llncs document class. The abstracts should be authored by young researchers (i.e., PhD students, excellent master students, or researchers that defended their PhD in 2010). If a senior researcher (like supervisor) must be listed as author, her/his contribution to the present abstract should be minimal and should be backed by a letter sent by her/him via e-mail to the organizers of the doctoral symposium stating this fact. Please submit your paper as a PDF file using the EasyChair system at the link below (the page will be opened for submissions on 1st June): https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dsfct2011 ----- Submission Guidelines ----- Do NOT use runningheaders (i.e., your documentclass declaration could look like this: \documentclass[10pt]{llncs}). The submitted abstracts are encouraged to follow an outline like: 1. Problem Description and Motivation: Describe the research problem you are addressing and motivate why this is relevant for FCT community. 2. Brief Overview of Related Work: Briefly argument that this problem and your work has not been done by others before. Possibly discuss the gaps in the current related research literature. 3. Proposed Solution: Give a high-level overview of your proposed solution to the problem identified in part 1. Describe any hypotheses that you have formulated. Describe the research method you are using or plan to use. ----- Program Committee ----- Sergiu Bursuc (U. of Birmingham, UK) Andrea Corradini (U. of Pisa, Italy) Clemens Grabmayer (Utrecht University, Netherlands) Magne Haveraaen (U. of Bergen, Norway) Martin Leucker (T.U. Munchen, Germany) Andrzej Lingas (Lund University, Sweden) Daniel Lokshtanov (U. of California, USA) Cristian Prisacariu (U. of Oslo, Norway) Gerardo Schneider (U. of Gothenburg, Sweden) Alexandra Silva (CWI, The Netherlands) Tomoyuki Suzuki (U. of Leicester, UK) Edsko de Vries (Trinity College, Ireland) ----- For further advertising one may use this .txt CFP, downloadable at http://fct11.ifi.uio.no/documents/cfp_DS_FCT11.txt or the .pdf posters http://fct11.ifi.uio.no/documents/poster_DS_FCT11_A4.pdf (A4 format) http://fct11.ifi.uio.no/documents/poster_DS_FCT11_A3.pdf (A3 format) -----