The BCSWomen Undergraduate Lovelace Colloquium

The inaugural BCSWomen Undergraduate Lovelace Colloquium was held at the University of Leeds on June 16 2008.

Many thanks to the students who have attended, it was a great day.

We had submissions from universities the length and breadth of the country - from Brighton to Dundee and from Bath to Hull.

Photos and a report from this event are here, and we will put up examples of student posters shortly.

Aims and overview

This is a one-day event open to all undergraduate women in computing and related disciplines in the UK. The day will involve two poster competitions (with real cash prizes), speakers from industry and academia, and will conclude with a social event (featuring cake). It's named after Ada Lovelace (pictured right), a computing pioneer.

The aims of this event are:

To provide a forum for undergraduate women to share their ideas and network
To provide a stimulating series of talks from women in computing, both from academia and industry
To provide both formal (talks) and informal (networking) advice to undergraduate women about careers in computing from a female perspective

Women wanting to attend should submit a poster abstract (see the poster competition page for details). We hope to be able to offer travel assistance to those coming from farther afield, and if demand is great we will distribute this based upon the quality of the abstracts.

Supported by...

The BCSWomen Undergraduate Lovelace Colloquium is organised by The University of Leeds and BCSWomen. Primary sponsors are:

Google The University of Leeds School of Computing

Additional support has been given by

Active Learning In Computing (ALIC) CETL

Any companies or organisations who would like to contribute to the event in any way (for example, by offering a student travel bursary or two allowing more undergraduates to attend) please contact bcswomen@comp.leeds.ac.uk. A limited amount of stall space is available during the lunch period and evening social for sponsoring companies interested in meeting the cream of the UK's women computing undergraduates.