[agents] First Call: Joint ADT/LPNMR Doctoral Consortium

[Nick Mattei]

[ Apologies for multiple postings ]

Please encourage your students who are considering attending ADT or LPNMR to apply for the first joint doctoral consortium!  Details below.

1st Joint Doctoral Consortium held as part of Algorithmic Decision Theory 2015 and Logic Programming and Non-Monotonic Reasoning 2015.
  
Program Website: http://www.adt-lpnmr-dc.preflib.org/

Program Highlights:
  
This will represent the first doctoral consortium to be held jointly between ADT and LPNMR.  There will be significant time for students from both fields to present their work, meet mentors from their own and closely related fields, and hear interesting panels related to their research careers. We hope to accept equal numbers of students from ADT and LPNMR in order to keep the group balanced and diverse.
  
The joint program will give students the opportunity to interact with students and researchers within and outside their own focus.  We feel that the closeness of ADT and LPNMR means that there are additional opportunities for students to potential future collaborators and important mentors from the other fields.

More information about ADT can be found at: http://cs.uky.edu/~srsa224/ADT2015/

More information about LPNMR can be found at: http://lpnmr2015.mat.unical.it/

Important Dates For Authors:
  
Application Due: May 1st, 2015
Notification: June 1st, 2015
Camera Ready Copies Due: June 22nd, 2015
Date of Doctoral Consortium: Sept. 27, 2015
  
Key Events:

* Student Oral Presentations and Discussion
* Individual Lunches with Mentors from ADT and LPNMR
* Two Invited Speakers and a Panel Discussion
* Dinner in Small Groups with Senior Researchers
* Poster at the ADT/LPNMR Joint Poster Session
  
Application:
  
Please see the main website at http://www.adt-lpnmr-dc.preflib.org/?page_id=15 for application instructions.
  
Student Selection and Review Process:

Students will be selected based on the assessment of the organizing committee.  We will give preference to students who have settled on a research topic or direction but still have some way to go in their studies.  Applications will be reviewed based on several factors including the quality of the work submitted, stage of research, evidence of research progress, the committee’s assessment of the student’s contribution to and benefit from participating in the DC, and input from the student’s advisor.

  
Student Support:

We expect to support student travel and registration for both the DC and the main conference of their choosing.  The DC will include coffee breaks, a provided lunch, and a dinner organized around Lexington with a mentor or senior research of the student’s choosing.

Organizing Committee:

LPNMR DC Chair Ersa Erdem
ADT DC Chair: Nicholas Mattei




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Nick Mattei
Researcher
NICTA and UNSW