The goal of the Diagrams 2022 Graduate Symposium is twofold. Firstly, the Symposium will provide senior graduate students and recent Masters and Doctoral graduates with the opportunity to present their research. Established researchers will provide feedback and comments on each of the presentations. Secondly, the Symposium will provide students with an opportunity to network with each other as future colleagues.
In previous Diagrams Graduate Symposiums, lively and useful discussions have enabled students to receive suggestions about their on-going research and allowed more experienced participants to hear some fresh ideas and view some of the new trends in the field.
The Graduate Symposium will include an Inspirational Early Career Researcher Invited Talk. The invitation to deliver this talk is reserved for an active Diagrams researcher, within approximately ten years of their PhD, who has demonstrable potential to be a major leadership force within the community. The Inspirational ECR talk will be open to the entire Diagrams delegation.
Participants will be selected for the Graduate Symposium based on the submission of a 3-page report describing their research (details given below). Submissions will be peer reviewed.
Authors of accepted submissions will be expected to be in attendance at the virtual conference to present their research and respond to questions presented by delegates.
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Submission Requirements
Submissions that focus on any aspect of diagrams research are welcome. Topics of interest are the same as those given in the calls for papers for the three conference tracks.
Students who wish to present their work at the symposium must submit a 3-page report describing
– their thesis topic,
– the approach being taken,
– the work that has been completed,
– the expected contributions of the research
– any necessary acknowledgements (for example, supervision team and source funding).
The student should be the sole author of their submission and the supervisor names should be included in the acknowledgements section.
The report must be submitted in Springer LNCS format by the submission deadline.
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Supervisor Support
Students who submit to the graduate symposium must ask their main or lead supervisor to submit a short supporting statement, by email to to Reetu Bhattacharjee, reetu.bhattacharjee ‘@’ sns.it.
The supporting statement should confirm that the supervisor supports the student’s participation in the symposium and briefly explain why the student will benefit.
It is the student’s responsibility to ensure that their supervisor submits the supporting statement.
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Publication Online
Summaries of accepted submissions will be available online on the conference website. As an example, see Diagrams 2018 Graduate Symposium proceedings.
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Participation Expectations
Graduate students whose submission is accepted are expected to fully participate in the Graduate Symposium.
Full participation means giving a short presentation and attending all presentations at the Symposium.
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Formatting Guidelines and Requirements
Students should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their submission, which must not exceed three pages.
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How to Submit
Submissions should be made by the deadline via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=diagrams2022
Each student can only submit one report.
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Participation Support Costs
Participants may request fundings. The following are the eligibility requirements:
- Student needs to be studying at a US institution
- Student needs to actively participate in the grad symposium (e.g. they can give a talk during the main conference, but they would still have to attend the grad symposium event and participate in any mentoring)
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Chair: Reetu Bhattacharjee, Classe di Lettere e Filosofia (Faculty of Humanities), Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
Program Committee
Lisa Best, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Leonie Bosveld de Smet, University of Groningen
Peter Chapman, Edinburgh Napier University
Lopamudra Choudhury, Jadavpur University, India
James Corter, Columbia University, New York
Gennaro Costagliola, Università di Salerno
George Englebretsen, Bishop’s University, Canada
Amirouche Moktefi, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia
Mario Piazza, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
Ahti Pietarinen, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia
Jorge Petrucio Viana, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói – Brasil