Abstract Submission

Abstract Submission:

In order to have your paper included in the Research Computing Symposium, please follow the submission process described here. Basically, you should:

prepare an abstract, following the format indicated below, that describes your topic, technique, or method,

decide to participate in either the Lightning Oral Talks & Poster Session, or the Poster Session alone,

submit the abstract before the closing date, by e-mailing it to: rcs@uci.edu.

Presentation Topics:

We wish to encourage presenters broadly at all levels of proficiency; to put this another way, the Symposium is about "computing used in research" and strives to encourage discourse on and awareness of new techniques and methods. So basically, anything you can think of in the research computing space can be presented as long as it's fun, entertaining, and potentially useful to other researchers. The following list of potential topics is stimulative, not reflective of our guidelines (of which there are none).

A challenging problem solved using computers.

An application of software leading to new discovery.

Visual programming environments.

Utilities for data reduction.

Visualization tools and techniques.

Software tools you can't live without.

Subversion ALL your research.

Flatfiles to databases (or the reverse).

Top ten "Don't do this".

Better image processing using X, Y, Z.

Social Software - the coding of crowds.

How to debug fast.

Improving performance - breaking bottlenecks.

How to find and evaluate appropriate software.

The best scripting language is ….

How X, Y, Z saved my thesis.

Parallel programming in the X, Y, Z language

Computer simulation using X, Y, Z.

Abstracts accepted as of May 27th

Presentation Formats:

Lightning-Talk Oral Papers

Lightning talks are short oral presentations with, or without, computer-assist, timed to last no longer than the limit (5 minutes in this case). See the Wikipedia description and if interested, read a HOWTO. They are meant as a way to ease into a formal presentation for the speaker and to review many topics on a subject for the listeners. Since the time period is short, the emphasis is placed on getting across a single point and if people are interested, to follow up later, at a poster paper. Speakers should provide a link to a corresponding web page, contact information, and perhaps, additional information, if desired.

Poster Papers

Poster papers remain an excellent way to present a complex story in detail. The organization and layout of the poster, and the author's grasp of the subject are key to being able to allow an interested viewer to comprehend the thesis and provide meaningful feedback. The poster should be mounted on foamcore board, with a maximum format of 3ft H x 4ft W.

If the presenter desires access to 115VAC power and a network connection, they should request this at the time of submission. The specific format and approach for poster presentations will follow the UROP Guidelines. Another useful guide to poster design and layout can be found here.

Abstract Format:

All submissions should be emailed to: rcs@uci.edu. For all presentation formats, we ask that you provide:

the presenter's name (first name followed by last name),
the names of all collaborators (first name followed by last name, separated by commas),
the names of all faculty advisors (first name followed by last name, separated by commas),
the presenter's departmental affiliation,
a brief title of the presentation,
selection for a lightning-talk oral & poster paper, or a poster paper only,
a brief abstract, limited to 250 words (no figures or images), describing your presentation,
and (optionally) an URL to a relevant web page that expands on the subject matter of the abstract.

The abstract should be submitted as part of the email, or as a plain text or PDF attachment. An abstract submission template is available for downloading.

Example of an abstract submission:

     Presenter's Name: Gary Kasparov 
        Collaborators: Geoff Smith, Rebecca Jones, Bruce Willis
   Faculty advisor(s): Alex Einstein and Chuck Darwin
   Department, School: Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
   Presentation Title: A Perl script to classify growth of
                       antibiotic-resistant colonies using digital
                       image capture.
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(Optional) Project URL:<http://www.mmg.uci.edu/eistein/gkasparov/rcs/lightning.html>

Abstract Submission

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