AFRICALS 2018: Doctoral Symposium of Computer Science PhD Students in Africa |
Website | http://africommconference.org/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=africals2018 |
Abstract registration deadline | June 30, 2018 |
Submission deadline | June 30, 2018 |
We are inviting submissions for the 1st edition of the Doctoral Symposium
of Computer Science PhD students in Africa which will be held this year as
part of AFRICOMM 2018 in Dakar (Senegal) on November 30 2018.
Submissions
The submission deadline is now set to *31 June 2018, 00:00 hrs GMT*.
Please try to submit a short abstract about your PhD research. The
submission procedure is quite lightweight. The details are available here:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=africals2018
*1st Edition of Africals (Doctoral Symposium of Computer Science PhD Students in Africa)*
Ojectives
Africals aims at bringing together a broad range of students: PhD students
at the start of their trajectory, students who are about to finish (what are
the pitfalls in the final stages?) and students in the middle (aiming for the
first top-level publication).
Symposium participants will have the occasion to discuss, in a welcoming
and informal atmosphere, the goals already achieved or planned, the research
challenges they are interested in, the projects they are working on, the
facilities they are developing, the problems they fight to solve and are solving
in their doctoral work.
During the Doctoral Symposium students will receive useful feedback from
senior researchers, industrial partners and experts. It will also be a good
opportunity for meeting and sharing experiences with other PhD students that
are addressing similar topics, or are at a similar stage in their doctoral work.
This way, the students will obtain guidance both on the academic content of
their current work and on potential future research trajectories.
In particular, we will assign a personal mentor to you during the conference,
who will be a useful resource for important advise regarding research,
and career planning in general.
Scope
All computer science PhD students (in Africa or from Africa but studying abroad)
are invited to submit a short paper describing their PhD topic, and their
contributions (planned or already executed). Papers cannot exceed 6-pages in
LNCS format, and will be accepted based on the following criteria:
- research is in the computer science field
- the work is of original nature
- the paper writing is of reasonable quality to be published in AFRICOMM proceedings (Springer)
We hope to see you all in Dakar end of November 2018!
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Dr. Tegawendé F. BISSYANDE <tegawende.bissyande@uni.lu>