Siggraph2019: SIGGRAPH 2019: Thesis Fast Forward Los Angeles, CA, United States, July 28-August 1, 2019 |
Conference website | https://s2019.siggraph.org/ |
Submission deadline | June 15, 2019 |
Siggraph 2019: Thesis Fast Forward
Make an Impression
To provide more young presenters with a platform for sharing innovative ideas and gaining valuable exposure, SIGGRAPH 2019 is holding the second Thesis Fast Forward program. Doctoral students in the final stage of their Ph.D. studies, or Ph.D. degree holders within a year of graduation, are encouraged to submit to this event.
The central element of the submission will be a three-minute video presentation by the candidate and an abstract, explaining the central theme of their thesis. The intent is to make the presentation accessible to a non-expert audience, representative of the typical cross-section of SIGGRAPH attendees.
Based on the video submissions and, as a secondary criterion on the provided abstracts, a jury will select up to 12 candidates who will be asked to perform three-minute oral presentations live at a special session at SIGGRAPH 2019. A panel of experts will provide immediate commentary after each live presentation and select a best performance. The live presentations will be judged solely on the content of the live three-minute presentation.
All selected candidates will be awarded an upgradeable Select Conference registration (upon commitment to participate in the live event).
Timeline
Submission deadline: June 15, 2019
Decisions: July 1, 2019
Submission Guidelines
The core component of a submission is a presentation video with duration no more than 3 minutes. In this video, the applicants should summarize the key components of their thesis, its merit and potential impact. Up to two presentation slides can be used as an optional backdrop to the presenter, who must be clearly visible in the video. The submission video should be provided via a web link (a link to a video on media sharing website such as YouTube is recommended to avoid encoding issues, but a direct URL to a video file is also acceptable).
The material to be submitted on the EasyChair Website should be a single PDF file, with the following contents:
- A cover page, listing the applicant’s name, affiliation, tentative or final dissertation title, and the actual (in the past) or future anticipated date of PhD degree conferral. This date should be no earlier than 1 September 2018, and no later than 31 August 2020.
The cover page should also list the link to the video submission itself as mentioned earlier.
- An optional addendum of up to two pages can be used to include an extended abstract, in the SIGGRAPH publication format, providing additional context or technical details on the applicant’s dissertation work. Not including this extra material will not, in any way, disqualify the applicant from selection, as the video submission is fundamentally the basis on which the selection will be made.
Thesis Fast Forward Committee:
- Eftychios Sifakis, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- M. Alex. O. Vasilescu, UCLA