July 1, 1999
Doctoral Symposium Frequently Asked Questions OOPSLA'99 will provide a selected group of doctoral students with a forum in which to present their work and to obtain guidance from a faculty of university and industry researchers as well as the other symposium participants. The goal of the symposium is to expose the students to external helpful but critical peers before their defense in order to improve upon their thesis work, as well as giving points of advise for job interviews. Past symposium has benefited the participants greatly, in that their responses had been unanimously quite positive. Doctoral students who are within one year of thesis completion are invited to apply to present their research to the Doctoral Symposium faculty (called mentors) in a closed session. There, a group of 8 to 10 students present their research in a workshop format to each other and a group of 4 to 5 mentors. Due to the mentoring nature of the event, it is only open to those selected for participation. However, the symposium participants will have a two-page short paper in the companion proceedings, and are also strongly advised to have a poster at the poster session. (In fact, in the past, some have had papers accepted for presentation at workshops and even at the main conference.) The participant will also receive a certificate of participation, which could be included in their future résumé. Mentors have been respected individuals in the OO community, such as past/present program chairs of OOPSLA/ECOOP, seasoned members of the program committee, symposium organizers, workshop leaders, etc. This year, the mentors are Craig Chambers (Univ. Washington), Gregor Kiczales (Xerox PARC), Oscar Nierstrasz (Univ. Bern), and Satoshi Matsuoka (Tokyo Inst. Tech., chair). Their mission is not only to be constructively critical about the current status of the work, but also to give advice to where the work should further focus and stress, the future direction for successful completion of the doctoral work, as well as some points of advice for job interviews. In the past symposiums, some mentors have attained close research relationships with the then doctoral students, who have gone on to become established researchers themselves, resulting in continuum of research collaborations. Each applicant should have an approved committee and topic. We are looking for students who are advanced enough to have a specific research proposal and some preliminary results, but with sufficient time remaining to thesis completion to benefit from the symposium experience. Application forms for describing the thesis topic and progress are available from the link below. A brief letter of recommendation from the student's thesis advisor is also required. Selections will be made based upon the contents of the application. Students selected as participants will receive reimbursement for conference-related expenses, including travel, conference registration, two nights of lodging, and some benefits of a student volunteer. On the other hand, although simultaneous applications to both the doctoral symposium and the student volunteer program are permitted, a student will lose his student volunteer status should he be accepted as a doctoral symposium participant. This is to allow as much student participation as possible under OOPSLA sponsorship. The student’s application status to the student volunteer program will not affect his chances of selection for doctoral symposium, and vice versa. Students may send applications by electronic mail to the doctoral symposium chair, beginning May 1999. Applications are due by 1 July 1999; notification of acceptance will be by 10 Aug 1999. Submissions as well as other questions regarding the symposium should be e-mailed to (do not send physical mail): Doctoral Symposium Chair:
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Doctoral Symposium
Chair: Satoshi Matsuoka
Submissions due date: July 1, 1999.
Doctoral Symposium Application
Satoshi Matsuoka
Dept. of Mathematical and Computing Sciences
Tokyo Institute of Technology
2-12-1 Oo-okayama, Meguro-ku
Tokyo 113, Japan
Phone: +81-3-5734-3210
Fax: +81-3-5734-3876
Email: oopsla_doc_symp@acm.org