[gecode-users] CP 2006: Applications to Doctoral Program

[Christian Schulte]

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                        CP 2006
        Call for Applications to Doctoral Programme

Twelfth International Conference on Principles and Practice of
                Constraint Programming

                   September 25-29, 2006
                     Nantes, France

CP 2006 invites Ph.D. students to apply for the Doctoral Programme, a forum
held during the CP conference which provides an opportunity for a group of
Ph.D. students to achieve visibility and discuss their research interests
and career objectives with each other and established researchers in
Constraint Programming and its related fields. After successful Doctoral
Programmes in previous years, it is being run again this year for the sixth
time.

The aims of the Doctoral Programme are the following:

    - to provide a forum for Ph.D. students to present their current
research,
    and receive feedback from other students and senior researchers;
    - to promote contacts among Ph.D. students and senior researchers
working in the same area;
    - to exchange research experience;
    - to support Ph.D. students with information and advice on academic,
    research and industrial careers;
    - and to financially support its participants.

The programme will consist of students' presentations and/or posters, and
tutorials given by senior researchers in the field. In addition, each
student will be matched to a mentor who is a senior researcher with similar
research interests and who can advise the student on his/her research
progress.


Participation and Financial Support Rules
=========================================

    - Applicants will be selected to participate in the Doctoral Programme
based on the
    quality of their submissions;
    - participants who have never attended CP Doctoral Programmes will be
given higher
    priority for financial support;
    - participants who have already attended past CP Doctoral Programmes
will be given
    financial support if funding is available. In this case, priority is
given to students 
    who received less support from the DP in previous years.

Financial support consists in free conference registration and
accommodation. NOTE that only the students who applied and got accepted for
participation in the Doctoral Programme are subject to financial support.


Paper Availability
==================

Student papers will be available during the conference and on the
Conference/Doctoral Programme websites.


Submissions
===========

We encourage submissions from Ph.D. students at any level, and from any
topic area and methodology within Constraint Programming and its related
fields. On the basis of the submissions, the Organizing Committee will
select a group of students that will be invited to present their work during
the Doctoral Programme, either as a presentation or a poster. We expect a
commitment from all participating students to attend the entire Doctoral
Programme.

Applicants should submit a paper electronically using the electronic
submission form at:

    http://www.softconf.com/start/CP_PHD06/submit.html

The paper should be a maximum of 6 pages in length and should follow the
usual LNCS style format at:

    http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

NOTE that the page limit is strict and longer papers will NOT be reviewed.
The paper should be sent either as a PostScript or as a Pdf file. It should
describe original, unpublished work, completed or in progress, that is part
of the doctoral work of the student(s). The authors should be formatted as:

    Student(s): ...
    Supervisor(s): ...

If an extended version of the paper is also submitted to the technical
programme, THIS MUST BE INDICATED in the ABSTRACT of the paper. Double
submission is acceptable, but if the paper is accepted also for the
technical programme, the student will present the work only in the technical
programme sessions and not during the Doctoral Programme. The papers of the
students accepted for participation to the Doctoral Programme will be made
available on the web.


In addition, the dissertation advisor should send a letter of recommendation
by e-mail to cp-phd2006 @ deis.unibo.it. The letter
should:

    - confirm that the applicant is a Ph.D. student working in Constraint
Programming
    or its related fields;
    - indicate whether the student has already benefitted from the past CP
Doctoral Programmes,
    and if yes how many times;
    - include the expected  date for thesis submission;
    - and the motivation/expected benefit for the student to attend the
Doctoral Programme.

This letter can be sent in as either a text or a PostScript or a Pdf file.

Important Dates
===============

 April 28, 2006: Deadline for applications
 June 21, 2006: Acceptance notification
 June 29, 2006: Final versions


Organization
============

Doctoral Programme Chairs:

 Zeynep Kiziltan
 D.E.I.S.
 Università di Bologna, Italy

 Brahim Hnich
 Faculty of Computer Science
 Izmir University of Economics, Turkey


Email: cp-phd2006 @ deis.unibo.it

Organizing Committee:

 Roman Bartak, Charles University, Czech Republic
 Hadrien Cambazard, Université de Nantes, France
 Mats Carlsson, SICS, Sweden
 Ian Miguel, University of St. Andrews, U.K.
 Javier Larrosa, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain  Gilles Pesant,
École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada  Steven Prestwich, University
College Cork, Ireland  Francesca Rossi, Università di Padova, Italy  Meinolf
Sellmann, Brown University, U.S.A.  Peter van Beek, University of Waterloo,
Canada  Pascal van Hentenryck, Brown University, U.S.A.  Toby Walsh,
University of New South Wales, Australia

Additional information may be obtained by contacting the Doctoral Programme
Chairs.