[TYPES/announce] Call for Submissions, PLDI 2008 Student Research Competition

[Todd Millstein]

Types are definitely one area of interest for PLDI 2008 and its
Student Research Competition.  See the Call for Submissions below for
more information.

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
PLDI 2008 STUDENT RESEARCH COMPETITION

June 7-13, 2008
Tucson, Arizona

ACM and Microsoft Research are sponsoring a Student Research
Competition (SRC) at PLDI 2008.

The SRC provides an opportunity for graduate and undergraduate
students attending PLDI 2008 to present their research in the design
and implementation of programming languages. The SRC consists of two
rounds: a poster session and a presentation session. A panel of judges
will select a number of finalists from the poster session, who will be
invited to the presentation session. Winners are selected from the
presentation session. The top three graduate and undergraduate winners
will receive cash awards. Click here for more details.

The winners will be invited to participate in the SRC Grand Finals, an
online round of competitions among the winners of individual
conference-hosted SRCs. The winners of the Grand Finals are invited to
the ACM awards banquet together with their advisors, for an
all-expenses-paid trip.

SRC participants will be eligible for travel grants.

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Eligibility Requirements
Current ACM student membership
Current "student" status as of March 15, 2008, either graduate or undergraduate

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Submission Details
Students who wish to participate must submit the following information:

An abstract of up to 800 words explaining the content of the poster.
Presenter's email address, phone number and surface mail address.
Name of department and school.
Name of academic advisor.

The abstract must describe the student's individual research and must
be authored solely by the student. If the work is collaborative with
others and/or part of a larger group project, the abstract should make
clear what the student's role was and should focus on that portion of
the work.

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Important Dates

Deadline for submission:      February 15, 2008
Notification of acceptance:   April 7, 2008



The submissions should be emailed to todd at cs ucla edu.

Fifteen undergraduate and ten graduate abstracts will be selected for
competition at the conference.

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Selection Committee

Todd Millstein (Chair)   University of California, Los Angeles
Juan Chen                  Microsoft Research
Sorin Lerner                University of California, San Diego
Ben Liblit                    University of Wisconsin–Madison
Eran Yahav                 IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

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Further Information

Any queries regarding the PLDI 2008 SRC should be sent to Todd
Millstein, todd at cs ucla edu.