All female students currently studying for a taught degree in Computing or a related discipline (Information Systems, etc.) are invited to submit an abstract to the poster competition. Those studying Joint honours degrees with a computing component (or related subjects such as Cognitive Science) are also eligible. Taught masters students are included in this, and will have a separate prize (to be announced).
To enter, simply submit a 250 word plain text abstract describing the work your poster will be about. Funding is available to provide assistance with travel costs: contact us if you would like to be considered for this
Final year and masters students are expected to enter the "original project work" competition, and produce a poster on their final year project. First and second year students can enter the "open choice" competition and produce a poster on the work of others if they prefer.
Prizes have yet to be finalised for 2009, but last year we were able to offer two first prizes of 100 pounds each and runners up prizes of 50 and 25 pounds - we hope to offer similar levels of support in 2009!
A limited number of travel bursaries will be available to students travelling from farther afield. If you would like to apply for one of these, please mention it when you submit your poster abstract. In the event of oversubscription these will be allocated based upon abstract quality (so make it good!).
Those coming from farther afield will probably want to stay in Leeds. Without making any promises about being able to organise accommodation, if you think this might apply to you please let us know when submitting your abstract and we will see what we can do.
Posters may cover any topic within the field of computer science and/or interdisciplinary studies connected to computer science. If you are a student having difficulty coming up with a poster topic, look at your Departmental webpage and see what computing research is being done in your University: your local researchers will almost certainly be happy to talk about their work with you (and get extra publicity in the process). If you're still stuck for ideas, drop us an email on bcswomen@comp.leeds.ac.uk (but not the day before the deadline) and we'll see what we can do.
To apply for the poster contest, send an abstract by email to bcswomen@comp.leeds.ac.uk by 6 February 2009. The abstract should be 250 words describing the work you will present (no images, just plain text). Also include in the email the following information:
All submissions will be reviewed by the organisers. If your poster is accepted, you will be notified by the end of February 2009, and a display area will be available to you on the day of the conference. The accepted abstracts will also be combined into a proceedings, to be distributed on the day.
Guidance on making scientific posters is available at a number of places on the web - creating effective poster presentations from North Carolina State University is one we think is particularly good.
We may be able to allow a small number of non-presenting participants. If you are a woman undergraduate in the UK, really do not want to make a poster, but do want to come along, please email bcswomen@comp.leeds.ac.uk and you will be contacted after the end of February 2009.