[Iefac.list] WSC2012 Ph.D. Colloquium and Poster Session

[W. K. Victor Chan]

WINTER SIMULATION CONFERENCE 2012

 


Ph.D. Colloquium and Poster Session


Sponsored by the 
ACM-SIGSIM and INFORMS-Sim Societies


 

Sunday, December 9, 2012

Submission Starts: Friday July 3, 2012

Submission Deadline: Monday September 10, 2012

 

 <http://wintersim.org/phdbest.htm> Best Ph.D. Student Paper Awards

 

The Ph.D. Colloquium & Poster Session at WSC'12 is an exciting opportunity
for Ph.D. students to present their work to the public.

 

Before giving her keynote to kick off the Ph.D. Colloquium, Professor
Adelinde M. Uhrmacher from the University of Rostock will join us for a
discussion over lunch. Students close to graduation (planning to graduate by
Dec. 2013) will be given an opportunity to showcase their work during a
short presentation session in the Colloquium. All Colloquium students will
then participate in the Poster Session. In addition, you can submit a
student paper in the official tracks to be eligible for a Best Ph.D. Student
Paper Award.

 

Both ACM-SIGSIM and INFORMS-Sim provide a complimentary one-year membership
for all students participating in the colloquium.

 

For students close to graduation participating in both the presentation
session and the poster session, ACM-SIGSIM and INFORMS-Sim will reimburse
their conference registration fee and their lunch.  Moreover, ACM-SIGSIM and
INFORMS-Sim will each award a Best Ph.D. Student Paper prize among those
final year students making a presentation at both the Ph.D. Colloquium and
the conference.

 

In summary, there are three options:

1.	Submit your work as a poster, get accepted, and you will have a good
reason to come to the WSC 2012.
2.	Submit a presentation in addition to your poster, get accepted, and
you will be reimbursed for the conference and participate in the PhD lunch.
3.	Submit a full paper in addition to the poster and presentation, and
you will be eligible to receive an award.

 

Presenting your PhD efforts to your peers and supporting society members
will give you valuable feedback, support your research with additional ideas
and parallel ongoing work, and introduces you to a network that can be very
helpful with your career once you graduate.

 

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

 

Posters: 

All colloquium submissions should include a brief (150-word maximum)
description of the research to be presented in the Poster Session along with
the names of your co-authors. A full-paper submission is not needed for
participating at the colloquium. Submit your application online at
http://www.wintersim.org/phd.htm (when you submit, select "Ph.D. Colloquium"
as the track).

 

Poster preparation guidelines: 
You will be provided a 4 feet high and 8 feet wide bulletin board. We
recommend that you use approximately 4 feet X 6 feet of space for your
display. There is no requirement that you fill the board. There is also no
requirement that you print a "real" poster - printed PowerPoint slides are
perfectly acceptable. Your poster should cover the main points of your work
and be as self-explanatory as possible. However, you should participate in
the evening event when the posters are presented, as peers and society
members will have additional questions. Even when you gave a presentation,
the poster session is always a great opportunity to talk about details,
discuss relevant related research, and bond with fellow PhD students.

 

Presentations: 

Final year students who wish to take part in the presentation session should
have their thesis advisor send an email confirmation of the expected
graduation date to the Colloquium Chair (before September 10, 2012).

 

If you submit a student paper for the conference you can use your
presentation for the PhD colloquium as well as for the track presentation.
You may need to edit the slides a little bit, as we may be more time
constraint, but you do not have to present something special in the PhD
colloquium that cannot use in the regular sessions.

 

Student Papers: 

Student papers are part of the regular conference and fall under the
submission and review guidelines as documented on the WSC website
http://www.wintersim.org. Be aware of their deadlines, they differ from the
PhD Colloquium. However, if you are participating in the PhD colloquium as
well, please send a short note with the details of the accepted paper to the
Colloquium share (before September 10, 2012).

 

More information

Contact the WSC 2012 Colloquium Chair:
Dr. Andreas Tolk, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA at
atolk at odu.edu.

 

 

 

 

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