Note: Students chosen to participate in the Tapia 2009 poster session, which is part of the ACM's Student Research Competition (SRC), are eligible for up to $500 in travel reimbursement (note-no advances are given, only reimbursement after the conference). All poster session participants will receive information from ACM on travel reimbursements prior to the conference.
The technical poster session provides an opportunity for students to present their latest research results and methodologies to a wide conference audience and to network at the same time. The posters competition will be organized as an ACM Student Research Competition (SRC). The top posters (1st, 2nd, & 3rd place) in the graduate and undergraduate student categories will advance to the ACM SRC Grand Finals and will be recognized at the prestigious ACM Awards banquet.
The poster competition will take place in three stages. First, posters are submitted in any area of relevance to the Tapia 2009 Conference. Submissions will be reviewed and acceptance decisions will be based on the relevance and importance of the problem, the correctness and contribution of the results reported, and the clarity of the presentation.
The second stage is the poster session at the conference. Each accepted poster will be assigned to a bulletin board, where each author will display non-electronic visual aids (e.g. printed material) related to the research. On site judges will view the posters, and question the entrants regarding their work. The judges will then select the top five posters in the graduate and undergraduate categories as semifinalists who will advance to the third stage. The posters will remain on display for the remainder of the conference.
In the third stage, each semi-finalist will give a short (10 minute) oral presentation of their work in a special conference session. Based on these presentations, the judges will select three graduate and three undergraduate winners of the competition. First, second, and third place winners in each category will receive cash awards. They will also be entered into the ACM SRC Grand Finals (http://www.acm.org/src/) to be held online.
Submissions to: http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=tapia2009 will be accepted after Thursday, June 5, 2008
Deadline: Friday, September 19, 2008
Notification of acceptance: Saturday, November 15, 2008
Be sure to read the Instruction Page before submitting. A link to the online submission form at easychair.org is also on that page.
Co-chairs
Dr. Charles Koelbel, Rice University
Dr. Brandeis Marshall, Purdue University posters@tapiaconference.org
