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Call for Doctoral Mentoring Program AAMAS 2008 will include a doctoral mentoring program, intended for PhD students in advanced stages of their research. This program will provide an opportunity for students to interact closely with established researchers in their fields, to receive feedback on their work and to get advice on managing their careers. Specifically, the goals of the program are:
The doctoral mentoring program will consist of opportunities for interactions between mentors and their mentorees prior to the conference, as well as a one day doctoral symposium, which will likely be held one day prior to the workshops. Submission Requirements We encourage submissions from PhD students at advanced stages of their research within the Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems field. Based on the submissions, the organizing committee will select a group of students that will be invited to participate in the program. Participants will be expected to take active part in all doctoral mentoring program activities. Each submission should include a set of documents from the students, and a recommendation letter from the advisor. The submission package should include: (a). A two-page extended abstract of the student's thesis (in the AAMAS submission format) The items (a)-(c) should be sent in electronic form (PDF) by the student, to the doctoral mentoring chair (Gal Kaminka and Yohei Murakami, mentoring@aamas2008.org), by January 31, 2008. In addition, the dissertation advisor should send item (d) (a letter of recommendation) by e-mail to mentoring@aamas2008.org. The letter should address the expected benefit of attending (to the student), the significance of the research, and the expected date for thesis submission. This letter can be sent in either plain text or PDF format. The student's name must be clearly pointed out in the letter. Important Dates
The one-day symposium will be held on one day before the workshops and tutorials. Doctoral Mentoring Chairs Gal Kaminka Yohei Murakami |
