Data, Data Everywhere

PhD Forum

Following the success of the similar events held in conjunction with the previous BNCODs, a PhD Forum is to be held again in conjunction with BNCOD 2007. The PhD Forum aims to provide PhD students help and advice on planning and conducting research, coping with "loneliness" in a 3-to-4 year period, and "care and nurture" of Academic supervisors. One objective of the forum is to provide an opportunity for researchers at the start of their careers to meet and share their work with their peers, who are in a similar position, from all around the world. Hopefully this will help build up some research networks for the years to come. Another objective is to provide an opportunity for PhD students in the databases and related research areas to liaise with and receive advice from some expert advisors in the field who have had rich experience in supervising and examining PhD students.

Accepted papers will be presented at the Forum, in front of 3-4 expert panel members and other PhD Forum participants. Each presentation will be followed by questions from the audience and comments/feedback from the panel members. In addition, there will be a general discussion session guided by the panel members, addressing various issues on PhD work and research experience in general. The PhD Forum participants are invited to submit questions and issues they would like to have discussed as part of the panel session before the PhD Forum. The PhD Forum participants will also be able to attend the main BNCOD conference at a discount rate.

Papers should be a maximum of four (4) pages in length including all figures, tables and references, and should be submitted in PDF using the Springer LNCS format, as an email attachment to the PhD Forum Chair, Professor Lachlan MacKinnon, by 19th May 2007.

For registration information, please click here. For any further inquiries, please email to Professor Lachlan MacKinnon.