[PlanetKR] KR2006 DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM

[Mary-Anne Williams]

 ** The deadline has been extended to 10 March 2006 **

                    
                    KR2006 DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM	
         		Call for Application

                         June 2 - 5, 2006
                         Lake District, UK


SUBMISSION DEADLINE (Extended): March 10, 2006
ON-LINE SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: http://www.cs.ust.hk/~flin/kr06-dc.html

The 10th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation 
and Reasoning (KR2006) invites PhD students to apply for the Doctoral 
Consortium program. The aims of the consortium are: 

- to provide a forum for students to present their current research, 
  and receive feedback from other students and senior researchers; 

- to promote contacts among PhD students working in similar areas; 

- to support students with information and advice on academic, research
  and industrial careers; 


The Doctoral Consortium is a student mentoring program that will introduce 
students to senior researchers with similar interests. A poster session 
will be held during KR2006. Students accepted into the Doctoral Consortium
will receive a scholarship that covers conference registration and part of
their travel expenses. 

We encourage submissions from PhD students at any level, and from any 
topic area within Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. Applications 
must be submitted via our online submission site (see below).
Each application must contain the following materials:

- Thesis summary. A description of the problem being addressed, your 
motivation for addressing the problem, proposed plan of research, 
the progress to date (what you have already achieved and what remains to
be done), and related work. It must be four pages maximum in double column
format like the papers in previous KR proceedings.

- Letter of recommendation. A letter from your thesis advisor that states
that he/she supports your participation in the DC. 


IMPORTANT DATES

March 10, 2006   Deadline for application
March 31, 2006  Acceptance notification
June 2-5, 2006  Doctoral consortium

Application Submission

Information about how to submit the applications can be found on
the following web page:
http://www.cs.ust.hk/~flin/kr06-dc.html

For further information, please contact the Doctoral Consortium chair: 

Fangzhen Lin
Department of Computer Science
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
flin at cs.ust.hk