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From: Yuwei Lin [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 21 May 2007 11:33
To: undisclosed-recipients
Subject: Opportunity for doctoral students to attend International
e-Science Collolquium

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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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Yuwei Lin | yuwei at ylin dot org
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