Call for Participation
The TPDL Doctoral Consortium provides doctoral students with the opportunity to present their work to senior researchers and engage with mentors and peers in a setting that is informal and allows for the fullest of intellectual exchanges. Students will receive constructive feedback on their doctoral project work from consortium participants. The Consortium is also an opportunity to network with the other participants – potential future colleagues and collaborators.
All doctoral students with a project in the general area of the TPDL 2021 topics, who have advanced enough in their studies to have a clear idea of the focus and study design of their thesis are encouraged to apply. Participants must apply and have their submission accepted in order to present their work at the Consortium. When accepting applications, topical relevance and the degree to which the project is expected to benefit from comments will be considered.
As participation in the Doctoral Consortium is included in the conference registration, participants are strongly encouraged to take part in the full conference experience.
Important Dates
Note that all deadlines are 23:59 (11:59pm) in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone on the date specified.
- Submission deadline: 17. May 2021
12. May 2021 - Notifications of acceptance: 2. June 2021
26. May 2021 - TPDL 2021 Doctoral Consortium session: 13. September 2021
Submission guidelines
The application should be submitted as a PDF document through the Doctoral Consortium track on the conference’s EasyChair site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tpdl21. The language of the Consortium is English.
The application should be 4 pages + references in the LNCS format, should have an abstract and should contain the following:
- Names of applicant and of supervisor(s), including affiliations
- Stage of progress within the PhD program
- Research problem being addressed and motivation for the work
- Research methodology and techniques applied
- Theoretical approach (if applicable)
- Relation of the work to the state of the art in the field
- Proposed solution and/or expected or preliminary results
The doctoral colloquium co-chairs encourage student applicants to also submit their work for possible presentation in poster or paper sessions. These submissions will go through the regular conference review process.
How the Doctoral Consortium will be conducted
The 2021 Doctoral Consortium program is currently in the planning phase. It will be run entirely online, with an attempt to accommodate participants from different time zones, depending on the needs of the applicants. The consortium will provide doctoral students with the opportunity to present their research, receive feedback from leaders in the field, and participate in events with other doctoral students.
Each participant will have 15 minutes for presentation, followed by 15 minutes for Q&A.
More details will be posted as they become available.
Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs
Morgan A. Harvey, University of Sheffield, UK
Helena Francke, University of Borås, Sweden
Invited Mentors
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