[AISWorld] SAICSIT 2011 Call for Papers - Postgraduate Student Symposium

[Wallace Chigona]

SAICSIT 2011 POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM
3rd October 2011 at Pavilion Conference Centre, Cape Town Waterfront
SAICSIT 2011 offers a unique opportunity for postgraduate students at
masters and doctoral levels to actively engage with knowledgeable and
experienced researchers on the first day of the conference (3 October
2011). Successful students will be required to present their research
during the dedicated sessions, and will also be required to display
their work by means of a poster for the duration of the conference.

Participation is free and open to all CS, IS and IT postgraduate
research students at any stage of their research. The Postgraduate
Symposium provides an excellent opportunity to:practice giving
conference papers and poster presentations in a friendly environment;
present your research to peers and experienced supervisors; meet other
postgraduate researchers working on similar areas of research but based
in different Research Centres and universities; receive feedback on your
research.


CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

The organizing committee now invites candidate participants to apply
for participation in the symposium. The symposium consists of 15 minute
presentations, poster sessions and interactions with guest lecturers
recognized as experts in their fields. There will be two streams for
presentations.  These are:

* Computer Science research-in-progress
* Information Systems/Information Technology research-in-progress
 
PARTICIPATION PROCEDURE
Candidate participants should submit a poster abstract (500 words)
before 22nd July 2011 via the conference submission page at
https://www.softconf.com/c/saicsit2011/ The abstract formatting
guidelines are similar to the prescribed format  (
http://hufee.meraka.org.za/Hufeesite/saicsit-2010/submission-formats-saicsit-main-conference-and-postgraduate-symposium
)for a full research paper which can be found at
http://dl.cs.uct.ac.za/conferences/saicsit2011/cfp/paper_template The
number of participants will be limited to 20 per stream and a
confirmation of acceptance will be given by 22nd August 2010. Each
participant needs to bring to the Symposium a poster that summarizes
their research work. Poster dimensions should be maximally 70 x 110 cm.


FINANCIAL SUPPORT
There is no registration fee for the postgraduate symposium for
students who present at the symposium. If they attend the main
conference, a registration fee will be charged for the main conference.
The postgraduate symposium is open to postgraduate students and invited
moderators only.
 
QUESTIONS?
For more information or questions, contact:
Gary Marsden: gaz at cs.uct.ac.za (Computer Science Stream)
Wallace Chigona: Wallace.chigona at uct.ac.za (Information
Systems/Technology Stream)
 
 
 
----[Wallace Chigona]--[ wallace.chigona at uct.ac.za ]---
Associate Professor  
Department of Information Systems
University of Cape Town
Private Bag, Rondebosch 7701,  South Africa   
Tel: (O)+27 21 6504345 
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