Objectives
2024 abstract submissions are closed
The aim of the BSC Doctoral Symposium is to provide a forum in which PhD students and PostDocs can present their research. To reach this goal, PhD students and PostDocs will share their experience and findings through talks, posters and discussions.
Authors are invited to submit two-page manuscripts containing original research and recent developments, as well as position and strategic papers to the Symposium. All accepted abstracts will be given either a presentation or a poster slot.
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission deadline: 28 March 2024
EXTENDED abstract submission deadline: 8th April 2024 before 09:00h
Abstract Submission Instructions
- For the Extended abstract, please use the BSC-IDS format (2 or less pages, approx. 800 words including references, diagrams and illustrations). Links to the Extended Abstract Template in MS Word and LaTeX are here and in the Abstract Submission form. Please create a PDF file and upload it. Make sure the size of the page is A4 (210mm x 297mm) and not letter.
- The abstract should have as a main author a PhD candidate or a PostDoc researcher. In the case of the abstracts of the PhD candidates, no more than 3 authors are allowed, including the applicant’s main supervisor.
- Include your short bio with recent photo at the end of the Extended Abstract as per the template.
- Please take the time to carefully spell check your paper and bio.
- Please follow exactly the IEEE templates provided and do not omit or add additional types of affiliation information and do not change the outline or formatting.
- For BSC affiliated applicants, please use the document “Guidelines for expressing BSC Affiliation in Publications"
- Fill in the abstract submission form. Please indicate whether you would like to present a talk or a poster.
- Fill in the event registration form.
Requirements for the Extended Research Abstract
Your Abstract should contain:
- Title
- Your name, affiliation and email address
- Your supervisor’s name, affiliation and email address
- The content of your abstract should relate to your research work and include at least one of the following :
- Description of the research problem you are investigating with justification of its importance and expected contributions of your thesis
- Results so far and their analysis and/or plans for future development
- Outline of prior unsuccessful work with proposed approaches for solution
- Short bio as formated in the IEEE template
Evaluation Criteria
The applications will be evaluated and the accepted ones will be given a presentation or a poster slot. The reviewers will be looking at the quality of the research work and its relevance to the scope of the event and the quality of the Extended Abstract.
When the Selection Committee is allocating a presentation or a poster slot, the stage of the research will be taken into account.
Want to join the Doctoral Symposium Organising Committee?
Read more in the Student Volunteering tab and consider signing up for next year! Sign-ups have closed for 2024.
Key Note Speaker
Speaker: Dr. Mercè Crosas
Abstract: The social sciences are more needed than ever to understand and address today's world's challenges. The vast amounts of data about human behaviors and interactions, and the second-to-second digital trace we leave behind, together with the advances of applied computational methods and compute resources, have given rise to the emergence of the new field of computational social sciences. Democratic quality and media consumption, changing demographics and living arrangements, social and ecological values in the digital world, social innovation to improve social mobility, understand what works in education and in science, and what doesn't, explore the volumes and volumes of medieval text and document our cultural heritage, are social science and humanities problems that we are aiming to shed light at the new Computational Social Science program at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, with the use of a wide variety of data, from text, images, and massive statistical datasets, a wide variety of methods including NLP/LLMs for text analysis, Social Network Analysis, Agent Based Models for social simulations, multilevel statistical models, among other computational-intensive methods. This talk will introduce these initial projects, and describe the vision, goals, and structure of the Computational Social Science program, as well as the importance of responsible access and use of FAIR data and of conducting this computational research with open science in mind.
