[4eyes] FW: [FACULTY] Graduate Student Distinguished Lectures @ summit.cs (Submission deadline Feb 9)

[Matthew Turk]

Ilab students,

Please consider submitting to this - it would be great for the lab to have representation in the Graduate Student Distinguished Lectures.

	Matthew

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Subject: [FACULTY] Graduate Student Distinguished Lectures @ summit.cs (Submission deadline Feb 9)

Folks,

	I am very excited to announce the second Graduate Student Distinguished Lectures series at this year’s summit.cs event ( http://www.ucsb-cs-summit.com ).

For those of you who have not seen the Graduate Student Distinguished Lectures last year at the summit, let me provide a brief recap. The idea is to have awesome, polished presentations that showcase research directions or thrusts, delivered by graduate students in the department. These presentations should appeal to a wide audience (and not just researchers in the same field) and be similar to 15-minute TED Talks.

The feedback on the graduate talks was overwhelmingly positive, so we plan to repeat the series for this year’s event. Similar to last year, we plan to have five Graduate Student Distinguished Lectures (and there is prize money involved :) ).

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The procedure to submit a Graduate Student Distinguished Lecture is the following:

1) Students submit presentations by Friday, February 9, at 11:59pm PT.

The submission must include a Powerpoint presentation (in wide-screen format) and/or an abstract (at most one page long). To submit an entry, please send the presentation and/or the abstract to me (Christopher Kruegel - chris at cs.ucsb.edu).

2) The selection committee selects five candidates by Friday, February 16.

3) A first round of presentations is performed in front of the selection committee on Friday, February 23 (from 1pm to 4pm), and the committee provides feedback.

4) A second round of presentations is performed in front of the selection committee on Friday, March 2 (from 1pm to 4pm).

This process will guarantee that the presenters receive substantial feedback and that the Graduate Student Distinguished Lectures are of a high quality. 

The Graduate Student Distinguished Lectures will be presented during the summit.cs (on Friday, March 16, 2018) in the afternoon, starting at 1:30pm (until 3pm).

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At the summit.cs event, a panel of judges will vote on the presentations.

The top presentation will receive a prize of 1,000 USD.
The second presentation will receive a prize of 750 USD.
The third presentation will receive a prize of 500 USD.

We are looking for faculty members and graduate students who want to be part of the selection committee. Please contact me (Christopher Kruegel - chris at cs.ucsb.edu) if you want to be part of the selection committee.


Thank you, and we are looking forward to your submissions!

Christopher Kruegel
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