Dear Colleague:
We would like alert postgraduate students in social science, computing and
other appropriate domains to the doctoral colloquium to be held at the third
International Conference on e-Social Science http://ess.si.umich.edu, funded
by the National Science Foundation (US) and the Economic and Social
Research Council (UK) .
A preliminary description of the colloquium, to be held Saturday, October 6
and Sunday, October 7 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and a description of the
application process is available at http://ess.si.umich.edu/doctoral.htm.
Briefly, the aim of the colloquium is to
1. Build a cohort group of new researchers who will then have a network of
colleagues spread out across the world.
2. Guide the work of the new researchers by having advice from experts in
e-social science.
3. Provide encouragement and support for the selection of e-social science
research topics.
4. Make it possible for promising new entrants in the field to attend the
Conference.
5. Illustrate the interrelationship and diversity of the field of e-social
science.
6. Make the new entrants' experience at the Conference an enjoyable and
rewarding experience, encouraging them to return and submit papers,
panels,posters, etc. to future conferences.
We will consider submissions on any theme in e- Social Science
examples include:
* Collaboration (e.g. the confidentiality issues associated with
datasharing;
ethics)
* Visualisation (e.g. visualization of large scale data and image
manipulation)
* High Performance Computation (e.g. grid enabled statistical analysis)
* Modelling & Simulation (e.g. agent based modelling)
Attendance will be restricted to 15 students. We will structure the colloquium
to have three or four sessions, the themes of which will depend on the nature
and balance of the submissions from the students.
Each session will feature an address from a senior researcher in the field,
a discussion by one or both of the co-chairs of the colloquium, and general
discussion amongst participants.
Please circulate this call as widely as possible. Please note that the
deadline is May 30, 2007 and we aim to notify successful applicants before
the end of June. Please do not hesitate to contact either of the co-chairs
should you have any questions.
Mark Birkin ([log in to unmask])
Julia Lane ([log in to unmask])
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