<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 class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">Graduate Symposium</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">Diagrams 2016, 7-10th August 2016, Philadelphia, PA, USA </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">Ninth International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2016" class="">http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2016</a></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(71, 135, 255); min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(71, 135, 255); min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">==================================</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">Graduate Symposium, Call for Submissions</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">==================================</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">Submission deadline: 21st March 2016</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">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 class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">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 class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">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 class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">All students who seek funding from the Diagrams conference must participate in the Graduate Symposium to be eligible.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">*** SUBMISSION ***</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">Submissions that focus on any aspect of diagrams research are welcome.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">A 3-page report describing</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">- the thesis topic,</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">- the approach being taken,</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">- the work that has been completed,</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">- the expected contributions of the research, and</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">- aspects of the work on which advice is desired</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">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 class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">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 class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">*** PARTICIPATION EXPECTATIONS ***</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">Graduate students whose *Graduate Symposium submission* is accepted will</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">- give a presentation at the Graduate Symposium, and</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">- present a Graduate Symposium poster at the poster session of the main conference.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">Students who have a *poster in the main conference* and are attending the symposium will</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">- present the poster at the poster session of the main conference, and</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">- give a presentation at the Graduate Symposium.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">Students presenting *a long or short paper in the main conference* will</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">- not give a presentation at the Graduate Symposium,</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">- but all students who receive student funding from Diagrams 2016 will be required to attend the Graduate Symposium.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">*** FINANCIAL SUPPORT ***</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">Financial support through the NSF and the Diagrams Conference fund will be granted to:</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">- all graduate students whose Graduate Symposium submission is accepted, and</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">- 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 class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">Support will range from free registration to additional travel support.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">*** QUESTIONS ***</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">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></body></html>