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Announcing the 1st Annual CS-Can Student Symposium.
The Student & Postdoc Advisory Committee (SPAC) of Computer Science Canada (CS-Can | Info-Can) is organizing the 1st Annual CS-Can Student Symposium in conjunction with the CS-Can | Info-Can 2019 Annual Meeting on June 2nd-4th at McGill University in Montreal, QC.
SPAC is inviting the entire Canadian computer science community (students, faculty and industry) to join them at the 2019 symposium.
The symposium will feature a series of inspiring lectures by CS-Can | Info-Can award winners (see the first cohort of 2018 winners here), a poster session showcasing emerging researchers from every field in computer science and engineering, a set of workshop talks devoted to addressing challenges facing Canadian computer scientists and engineers (e.g., the under-representation of women and minorities) and a lightning pitch presentation session.
There will be three types of lightning pitches: the first two will introduce the upcoming poster presentations and workshop talks, and the third will provide anyone attending (but not otherwise presenting) with the opportunity to pitch an idea or their work.
We invite you to submit your contributions to any of the categories: workshop talk, poster presentation or lightning-pitch presentation. (Submissions to more than one category are possible.) To learn more about the 2019 CS-Can Student Symposium and see the calls for submissions, please visit: www.cscan-infocan.ca/spac/symposium.
Important Deadlines:
Submission deadline (all categories): April 15th, 2019
Notification of acceptance: April 30th, 2019
Early Bird Registration Deadline: May 7th, 2019
Meeting Dates: June 2nd-4th, 2019
What are CS-Can and SPAC?
CS-Can | Info-Can is a national, non-profit society dedicated to representing all aspects of computer science and the interests of the discipline across Canada. Its mission is to foster excellence in computer science research and higher education in Canada and to help grow the field in Canada in an inclusive way that includes women, visible minorities and Indigenous Peoples.
SPAC is the student and postdoc advisory committee within CS-Can | Info-Can. Its mission is to foster and represent the community of Canadian Computer Science post-secondary students and postdoctoral fellows. The committee comprises 10-12 elected students and postdocs attending Canadian universities who are working with Computer Science Canada (CS-Can | Info-Can) to advance Canadian computing research, education and innovation. If you are interested in learning more or getting involved, please don’t hesitate to visit our website (www.cscan-infocan.ca/spac) or get in touch (spac@forum.cscan-infocan.ca).
Organization
Doina Precup (McGill University, MILA, Google Deepmind Montréal)
President
CS-Can | Info-Can
SPAC:
Yasha Pushak, Chair (University of British Columbia)
Parastoo Baghaei (University of Waterloo)
Noah Campbell (University of Windsor, CUCSC)
Sayantan Datta (McGill University)
Oliver Dechant (Dalhousie University)
Audrey Durand (McGill University, MILA)
Andi Kadir (University of New Brunswick)
Local Organizing Committee:
Sumana Basu (McGill University, MILA)
Jhelum Chakravorty (McGill University, MILA)
Jad Kabbara (McGill University, MILA)