[ecswomen] Fwd: BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium 2010 - Call for Abstracts (extended deadline)

Fri Jan 29 09:57:39 GMT 2010

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  		BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium
2010 - Call for Abstracts (extended deadline)

  		Fri, 29 Jan 2010
09:55:42 -0000

Hi Everyone, (Apologies for the multiple posting)  

The
deadline for abstracts for the  Women Lovelace Colloquium poster
competition is fast approaching. As the spring semester is only just
beginning in order to enable more students to submit we've extended the
submission deadline to FRIDAY 12th FEBRUARY.   

Previously the prize for
the best poster in each category has been £100, but it looks like we'll be
able to offer significantly more this year. We also hope to cover transport
expenses for all presenters who need to travel to the venue.  

Full
details of the poster competition is include below and in the attached
flyer. Abstracts only have to be 250 words, so please encourage all of your
undergraduate and taught postgraduate women, including your tutees and
project students, to apply.   

Please also forward this to your colleagues
and contacts.  

If you or your students have any questions please feel
free to email me.  

Many thanks,  

Mikhaila  

--   

Mikhaila Burgess
BSc(Hons) PhD FHEA MBCS
 School of Computer Science "> 

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BCSWOMEN LOVELACE
COLLOQUIUM 2010  

The BCSWomen Undergraduate Lovelace Colloquium is an
annual one-day event organised by BCSWomen for female students of computing
and IT. Each year it comprises a number of talks from industry and
academia, a poster contest for students and, of course, social activities.
Held previously in the University of Leeds, in 2010 it will be located in
Cardiff University.  

Although the day is primarily aimed at undergraduate
students the event is also open to those studying on taught masters
programmes. Women and girls studying in schools and colleges are welcome to
come along, but not to enter the poster contest - please contact the
organisers for more information about attendance from schools.  

Full
details of the 2010 Colloquium can be found at
http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/BCSWomen/ [2]   

You can also keep updated via
Twitter. Just follow @LovelaceColl   

POSTER COMPETITION - CALL FOR
ABSTRACTS (DEADLINE EXTENDED)  

All female students currently studying for
a taught degree (undergraduate or postgraduate) in a computer-related
discipline are invited to submit an abstract to the Poster Competition. To
enter simply submit a 250 word plain text abstract describing what your
poster will be about.  

Posters may cover any topic within the field of
computer science and/or interdisciplinary studies connected to computing or
IT.  

Posters may be based on a project you're currently undertaking at
university, something related to your place of work, or something else you
are interested in and think others would like to know more about too! If
you would like to submit an abstract but are having difficulty in coming up
with a poster topic look at your Departmental webpage and see what
computing research is being done in your University: your local researchers
will almost certainly be happy to talk about their work with you (and get
extra publicity in the process).  

If you're still stuck for ideas, drop
us an email on bcswomen at cs.cardiff.ac.uk (but not the day before the
deadline) and we'll see what we can do.  

APPLICATION INFORMATION  

To
apply for the poster contest, send an abstract by email to
bcswomen at cs.cardiff.ac.uk by Friday 12th February 2010. The abstract should
be no more than 250 words describing the work you will present (no images,
just plain text).  

You also need to include the following information in
your email:  

 - Full name  

 - School/Department and University  

 -
Your degree and current year of study  

 - Contact address  

 - Type of
poster: 'Original Project' or 'General Interest'  

All submissions will be
reviewed by the organisers. If your poster is accepted, you will be
notified by the end of February 2010, and a display area will be available
to you on the day of the conference. The accepted abstracts will also be
combined into a proceedings to be distributed to all attendees on the day. 

Guidance on making scientific posters is available at a number of places
on the web. As a starting point you may wish to look at:  

 - North
Carolina State University guide to creating an effective poster:
http://www.ncsu.edu/project/posters/NewSite/ [3]   

 - The American
Psychological Society's guide to creating an undergraduate research poster:
http://www.the-aps.org/careers/careers1/Undergrad/glas.htm [4]   

PRIZES
AND TRAVEL COST ASSISTANCE  

Prizes (financial) will be awarded to the
best posters.  

Further details of prizes and travel bursaries will be
posted on the colloquium web site as they are arranged. So check back
regularly to keep up-to-date.  

In previous years we have been able to
fund travel (and where necessary, overnight accommodation) for all poster
presenters, and we hope to do the same in 2010.  

KEY DATES  

 Poster
abstract submission deadline: Friday 12th February 2010 **extended
deadline**  

 Poster acceptance notification: Friday 5th March 2010  

Colloquium: Thursday 8th April 2010  

Links:
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[1]
http://www.cs.cardiff.ac.uk
[2] http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/BCSWomen/
[3]
http://www.ncsu.edu/project/posters/NewSite/
[4]
http://www.the-aps.org/careers/careers1/Undergrad/glas.htm
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