<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Graduate Symposium</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Diagrams 2016, 7-10th August 2016, Philadelphia, PA, USA </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Ninth International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><a href="http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2016" class="">http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2016</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(71, 135, 255); min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(71, 135, 255); min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">==================================</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Graduate Symposium, Call for Submissions</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">==================================</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Submission deadline: 21st March 2016</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">The goal of the Diagrams 2016 Graduate Symposium is twofold. Firstly, the Symposium will provide senior graduate students and recent Master's and Doctoral graduates with the opportunity to present their research, and receive feedback from established researchers who will provide comments on each of the presentations. Secondly, the Symposium will provide students with an opportunity to network with each other as future colleagues.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">At past Diagrams Graduate Symposiums, lively and useful discussions have enabled students to receive suggestions about their on-going research and allowed more experienced participants to hear some fresh ideas and view some of the new trends in the field.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Participants will be selected for the Graduate Symposium based on the submission of a 3-page report describing their research. Submissions will be peer reviewed. Summaries of accepted submissions will be available online on the conference website.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">All students who seek funding from the Diagrams conference must participate in the Graduate Symposium to be eligible.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">*** SUBMISSION ***</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Submissions that focus on any aspect of diagrams research are welcome.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">A 3-page report describing</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">- the thesis topic,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">- the approach being taken,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">- the work that has been completed,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">- the expected contributions of the research, and</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">- aspects of the work on which advice is desired</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">must be submitted via the EasyChair system (<a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=diagrams2016" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=diagrams2016</a>) by *21st March 2016*.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">The submission should be prepared following the LNCS style guidelines (<a href="https://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0" class="">https://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0</a>). One student can only submit one report.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">*** PARTICIPATION EXPECTATIONS ***</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Graduate students whose *Graduate Symposium submission* is accepted will</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">- give a presentation at the Graduate Symposium, and</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">- present a Graduate Symposium poster at the poster session of the main conference.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Students who have a *poster in the main conference* and are attending the symposium will</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">- present the poster at the poster session of the main conference, and</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">- give a presentation at the Graduate Symposium.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Students presenting *a long or short paper in the main conference* will</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">- not give a presentation at the Graduate Symposium,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">- but all students who receive student funding from Diagrams 2016 will be required to attend the Graduate Symposium.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">*** FINANCIAL SUPPORT ***</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Financial support through the NSF and the Diagrams Conference fund will be granted to:</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">- all graduate students whose Graduate Symposium submission is accepted, and</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">- a number of other students presenting a paper or poster at the main conference who submit a Graduate Symposium report by the symposium submission deadline and who fully conform to the participation expectations.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Support will range from free registration to additional travel support.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">*** QUESTIONS ***</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Send an email with 'Graduate Symposium' in the subject to <a href="mailto:diagrams2016@diagrams-conference.org" class="">diagrams2016@diagrams-conference.org</a>. The Graduate Symposium chair, Luana Micallef, will get back to you as soon as possible.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""></body></html>