ISCAR INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2011

PhD Students’ Day

Monday, September 5th, 2011 (10:00-18:30)

PhD Day - Call for the PhD Students’ Day Proposals

» Open on Thursday, July 15th, 2010

PhD Students have the possibility to submit a proposal both to ISCAR CONFERENCE and to the PhD Students’ Day but the two proposals have to be different. They cannot submit the same contribution to both events.

a) INFORMATION for SUBMISSIONS to the PhD Students’ Day

For the parallel sessions of the PhD Students’ Day, including PhD dialogues, paper sessions and posters, submissions of proposals will be opened from now on until the 04th September 2010 and have to be sent by using the link below this page. PhD students are invited to send proposals that correspond to one of the congress topics. A proposal may be submitted for:

• A POSTER that corresponds to one of the congress (sub)themes. All accepted posters will be grouped in sessions by themes (each session will contain 6-8 posters and will be conducted by a chair for a plenary discussion; posters will be displayed earlier in order to be read before the parallel discussions).
Posters submission includes an abstract of 300 words max.

• A PAPER that corresponds to one of the congress themes or subthemes. All accepted papers will be grouped in coordinated paper sessions and assigned to a chair and discussant selected by the program committee. Each session is allotted one hour and a half and contains 3-4 papers presentations (15 minutes for each presentation) followed by 45 minutes of plenary discussion.
Papers should be submitted using a single file containing a short abstract of 300 words max. and an extended summary of 800 to 1000 words max., including references.

• A PhD Thesis Dialogue. In this case, PhD students are invited to discuss their PhD thesis work with one or more senior researchers that have the role of questioning, debating and suggesting improvements to that work.
PhD Dialogues submissions should be sent by a single file composed by:

(a) an abstract of 300 words max. and an extended summary 800 to 1.000 words max., including references, about the thesis theme, background, method (detailed) and results (expected or already analyzed), indicating also what is already accomplished;
(b) a letter of motivation to participate in the dialogues (max. 5.000 characters with spaces);
(c) a letter of reference from the supervisor of the PhD thesis (max. 5.000 characters with spaces).

After the review process, the Organizing Committee of the PhD Day reserves the right to turn a paper proposal into a poster presentation (and vice versa). Similarly, since the PhD Students’ Day provides only 6 PhD Dialogues (in parallel) as final events, the unselected PhD Dialogues will be turned into paper or poster proposals.

PhD Students have to clearly indicate the type of preference for their submission (poster, paper or PhD Thesis Dialogue) when they send the proposal.

The deadline for preconference submission was September 4th.
The system has been closed.

b) DATES to remember
- 04th September (2010): Deadline for submissions (and Early Registration for PhD Students that submit a proposal)