February 24-25, 2017
Georgetown University
Georgetown University, O Street Northwest, Washington, DC, United States
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Farzana Rahma
rahma2fx@jmu.edu
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CRA-W is proud to sponsor the 2017 Capital Region Celebration of Women in Computing Conference via the Distinguished Lecture Series program. This celebration is about bringing together women at the high school, undergraduate, graduate, and professional levels to promote the recruitment, retention, and progression of women in computing fields.
Top Reasons to Attend
- Practice public speaking by presenting a poster or flash talk.
- Share your work and ideas with your peers and experts during the poster session, flash talk, or technical short.
- Get valuable feedback about your work and ideas via your poster presentation or technical short
- Win a prize by competing in the Poster Competition.
- Be inspired. Meet technical women like you and celebrate your accomplishments together.
- Hear success stories of technical women who made it this far!
- Broaden your skills by attending a workshop.
- Meet recruiters from business, industry, and academia for internships, jobs, or graduate programs.
- Find a new job or internship. Bring your resume to our career fair to apply for job and internship opportunities.
- Did we mention that it is FUN!
Deadlines
- Flash Talk, Poster, and Research Short Abstract Submissions: January 20, 2017
- Acceptance Notification: January 27, 2017
- Conference Registration Deadline: February 10, 2017
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CRA-W is proud to sponsor the following speakers for this event:
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and UMIACS
University of Maryland, College Park.
Assistant Research Professor in the Computer Science Department at Johns Hopkins University and a member of the Johns Hopkins Systems Institute.
Call for Participation
We invite three different types of participation in the area of computing research as well as on efforts to increase diversity in computing, e.g. outreach programs or programs to engage students outside the classroom.
- Flash Talks: Five-minute presentations of 20 slides, where slides automatically advance every 15 seconds. Talks will have a 15-minute window to provide time for feedback and mentoring. Reports on preliminary results, work-in progress, or anything fun and creative related to the conference are welcome in this category. Open to high-school, undergraduate, or graduate students as well as professionals.
- Posters: Presenters create a 24” x 32” poster of research, a class project, or other type of work-in-progress including efforts to diversify computing before the conference and are present at the poster during the session to discuss content. Open to high school, undergraduate and graduate students.
- Research Shorts: An opportunity to give a 15-minute presentation with an additional 5 minutes for questions, similar to a talk at a research conference. Work should be technical in nature, investigating new ideas in any area of computer science. The intention is to give presenters a friendly environment in which to practice a future talk or work out details in an ongoing project with an audience capable of constructive feedback. No paper is required, only an abstract, so future publication of the work is not limited. Open to undergraduates, graduates, and professionals.
Submission: Submit abstracts of no more than 500 words at https://goo.gl/forms/GU3tnvJFnWC9D2pD3 by JANUARY 20, 2017. You will be prompted to list the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the presenters. Students should also specify their status; for example: 2nd year undergraduate, 3rd year graduate student. (Title, list of authors etc. do not count toward the word limit.)
Deadlines
- Flash Talk, Poster, and Research Short Abstract Submissions: January 20, 2017
- Acceptance Notification: January 27, 2017
- Conference Registration Deadline: February 10, 2017
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