The Oxford Computer Science Conference was established in the 1990’s and is the Department of Computer Science’s annual celebration of student projects, research by Masters and PhD students, and work by postdoctoral fellows.

Supported by industry partners and usually held in the Department, the conference is an excellent opportunity for students and early-career researchers to present their work to a broad audience. The conference is also a natural opportunity for students, researchers, and industry partners to discuss their work and future career plans.

The conference features cash prizes for best talk, best poster, and best abstract, with the winners being announced at a drinks reception at the end of the conference. In addition to talks and poster presentations, a keynote speaker or panel discusses cutting-edge findings or challenges in a specific area of computer science.

Submission Guidelines

All abstracts must be original. The following guidelines should be kept in mind:

• All submissions must be made by a graduate student, post-doc, or other early-career researcher affiliated with the University of Oxford.
• The submission must include:
  • A title
  • The author's name and the names of any collaborators
  • The research theme out of:
    • Algorithms and Complexity Theory
    • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
    • Automated Verification
    • Computational Biology and Health Informatics
    • Cyber Physical Systems
    • Foundations, Structures, and Quantum
    • Human Centred Computing
    • Information Systems
    • Programming Languages
    • Security
    • Other: __________
• The submission should also indicate the preferred session type: presentation, lightning talk, or poster.
• The abstract should be a maximum of 200 words (not including the above information).
• We welcome submissions that have been published elsewhere.
• The abstract should convey:
  • The research objectives and methods applied.
  • The outcomes and limitations of the work.
  • The context into which the results fit.
• While the language should be formal and technical, and need not cater to those with no computer science background, it should be possible for computer scientists in other research areas to glean the important information from the abstract.
• Some cash prizes will be awarded based on abstract quality.

Committees

Conference Committee

• Matthew Katzman (General Chair)
• Jaclyn Smith
• William Osborne
• Kubilay Kuecuek
• Shyam Tailor
• Dominik Wagner
• Fatimah Ahmadi

Venue

The conference will be held in the Wolfson Computer Science Building in Lecture Theatres A and B and the Atrium.

Media Release

By submitting an abstract and further agreeing to present your work, you are irrevocably giving permission to the University of Oxford Department of Computer Science Comittee of Graduate Students (the Committee) and the Committee's officers, agents, employees, successors, licensees, and assignees to take and use photographs, video or sound recordings of you for work submitted to and presented at the 2020 Oxford Computer Science Conference.  Your consent to the use of the photographs, video and sound recordings and your image, likeness, appearance, and voice is for forever. You will not receive compensation for the use of your image, likeness, appearance, and voice now or in the future. The Committee may use the photographs, video and sound recordings containing your image, likeness, appearance and voice in any manner or media, including use on web pages. The photographs, video and sound recordings may be used in whole or in part, alone or with other recordings. The photographs, video and sound recordings may be used for any educational, institutional, scientific or informational purposes whatsoever, but not for any commercial uses. The Committee has the right and may allow others outside the Committee to copy, edit, alter, retouch, revise and otherwise change the photographs, video and sound recordings at the Committee's discretion. All right, title, and interest in the photographs, video and sound recordings belong solely to the Committee.  You further give permission to the Committee to use your name, biography, and any other personal
data, events, or other material in or in connection with any such uses of the photographs, video and sound recordings.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to cogs@cs.ox.ac.uk.