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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#333333">The SPLASH Doctoral Symposium provides an interactive forum primarily aimed at mid-stage doctoral students who have progressed far enough in their research to have a structured
proposal but will not be defending their dissertation in the next 12 months. Student proposals and presentations will be discussed and evaluated with the aim of providing important guidance for completing their dissertation research and beginning their research
careers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#333333">The symposium is a one-day in-person event at SPLASH (on 22<sup>nd</sup> October), structured around presentations of a student’s current research agenda and plans, with plentiful
time for discussions and feedback from the program committee. Students are encouraged to apply for participation by one of the two available deadlines; applications will be reviewed with a quick turnaround. Confirmed participants should attend for the whole
event on the day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#333333">There is no formal restriction on how far through your doctoral studies you need to be to be considered mid-stage, except that you should not be planning to finish within the next
12 months. If you are at an earlier stage of your studies, you could consider applying to the Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop instead! In case you’d like advice on this, feel free to reach out to the symposium chair (Alex Summers) at
<a href="mailto:alex.summers@ubc.ca">alex.summers@ubc.ca</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#333333">Doctoral Symposium participants will automatically be considered for SIGPLAN’s <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.sigplan.org/Awards/Other/__;!!IBzWLUs!Qf1xNeUzNewP5HMTXtkntth1IhS3W4co2yUL_3Ax1uwdWEjJaOtjqVfAKPC99sQ-i_bnTO_AvHZOGz9l4LHTWAiljnm0TbwZpQ3P$"><span style="color:#337AB7">John Vlissides award</span></a>,
which comes with a cash prize of $2,000.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#333333">Please see the website for further information, and please feel free to distribute this email widely!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://2024.splashcon.org/track/splash-2024-Doctoral-Symposium__;!!IBzWLUs!Qf1xNeUzNewP5HMTXtkntth1IhS3W4co2yUL_3Ax1uwdWEjJaOtjqVfAKPC99sQ-i_bnTO_AvHZOGz9l4LHTWAiljnm0TcPQjCmV$">https://2024.splashcon.org/track/splash-2024-Doctoral-Symposium</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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