Dear CS Grad Students

On April 13th 2012, the CS Department will hold a Research Day in the Georgia Center from 9-2:30 pm. Refreshments will be served. This event will provide an opportunity for students to present their research, whether complete or work-in-progress to CS faculty, faculty from other UGA departments, university administrators, industry representatives, visiting alumni and prospective students The event will include keynote speeches, a poster session and competition.

Confirmed Speakers:

• Amit Sheth (Wright State University)
• Gunter Ollmann (Damballa Inc.)
• Ling Liu (Georgia Tech)

• First prize: $500 in travel funds for a student author to present a paper at a conference.
• Second prize: $250 in travel funds for a student author to present a paper at a conference.
• Third prize: $100 gift certificate at the University bookstore.

• Prepare and submit an interesting, informative, nicely designed, and grammatically correct poster.
• Prepare and practice a brief "poster talk".
• Attend the event, circulate around to see what your fellow grad students are doing, interact with visitors, and make a good impression.

Important Dates

• 3/13 (Mid-night): Demo intention to submit due.

  Send an email to ugacs.resday@gmail.com, with the subject line "2012 Demo Intent to Submit", and include your demo title in the body of the message.

• 3/23 (Mid-night): Poster and abstract submissions due.

  Be sure to use an appropriate font-size, layout, and color scheme. Please do NOT try to cram a full paper onto a poster. Please use no background or a very light background, and limit the use of color (we are printing these ourselves on the grad school printer and need to conserve printing supplies).
  A template file is available here.
  
  To submit:

  1. Name your poster file: Poster_YourSurname.ppt (insert *your* surname)
  2. Create a plain text abstract containing:
     • Your name
     • Title of your poster
     • 150 word abstract
  3. Send an email to ugacs.resday@gmail.com, with the subject line
     • if you submit a poster only: "2012 Poster YourSurname"
     • if you submit a poster and a demo: "2012 Poster+Demo YourSurname" include your abstract in the body of the message and attach your poster.

• 3/24 - 3/27 (Mid-night): Poster reviews.
  
  
• 3/29 (Mid-night): Final posters due.
  
  
• 4/13: Research Day