[grad-students] MITACS Winter school at BIRS

[Jeannette Janssen]

                          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

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.

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 opportunities

* 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.


Application process:

Applicants must submit the following documents by email to
waw2006 at 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:   Winterschool




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