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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">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.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Full details of the 2010 Colloquium can be found at <a title="blocked::http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/BCSWomen/" href="http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/BCSWomen/">http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/BCSWomen/</a> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: bold;">Poster Competition – Call for Abstracts (deadline extended)</span></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">To apply for the poster contest, send an abstract by email to bcswomen@cs.cardiff.ac.uk by Friday 12<sup>th</sup> February 2010. The abstract should be no more than 250 words describing the work you will present (no images, just plain text).</span></span></p>
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