CFP: MITACS Winter School on Modelling and Mining of Networked Information Spaces

MITACS Winter School on
      Modelling and Mining of Networked Information Spaces
                       BIRS, Banff, Alberta
                      November 25-29, 2006
         http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~waw2006/winterschool

Format:
The MoMiNIS Winter School provides the opportunity to a group of selected graduate students to attend tutorials in the Modelling and Mining of Networked Information Spaces from recognized experts in the field, and present their own work and receive feed back. The unique setting of BIRS is highly conducive to personal interaction and generation of new ideas. The Winter School has the following objectives:

* To provide knowledge of the state of the art in the field via tutorials by experts
* To support young researchers with networking

* To provide young researchers with feedback on their research and the opportunity to discuss their research interests with established researchers in the field

The Winter School is most useful to students who are starting their doctoral research and have some ideas about the direction of their PhD thesis.

Tutorials will be given by recognized experts. The following speakers have been confirmed:

* Soumen Chakrabarti (IITC, Mumbai)
   Indexing, searching, and ranking in entity-relationship networks  with
   associated text

* Fan Chung Graham (UC San Diego)
   Title TBA

* Filippo Menczer (Indiana U)
   Web Mining, mapping,  modeling and mingling

* Walter Willinger (ATT)
   Power laws in Internet  graphs: full of sound and fury, signifying
   nothing?
 
The winter school is associated with the Workshop for Algorithms on the Web graph (WAW2006), held adjacently at BIRS on November 30 and December 1. See http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~waw2006 for details.


Application process:

Applicants must submit the following documents by email to waw2006@mathstat.dal.ca with "Winter School Application"  as the subject of the email.

Please combine all documents into a single PDF file, formatted for US letter-size paper (8.5 x 11 inches).

1. A one-page summary that outlines the research problem of interest, a proposed research plan, and a summary of progress already made.

2. A curriculum vitae, two pages long, including a half-page statement of how you think you would contribute to the winter school.

3. A letter of recommendation from your thesis advisor, including an assessment of the current status of your research, the start date and the expected completion date of the thesis, and how he/she thinks you would benefit from participating in the winter school.

Applications will be reviewed by the organizing committee. Accepted applicants will be expected to present a poster on their research project at the Winter School and a 5-min overview of their poster in presentation format.

Room and board will be covered by BIRS and MITACS. There are limited funds available to subsidize the travel expenses of students, upon request after acceptance notification.


Important Dates:

August 15:        Application package submission deadline
September 10:     Acceptance notification
November 25-29:   Winter school