Doctoral Consortium
Call for Participation: CVPR 2016 Doctoral Consortium
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Overview
The CVPR Doctoral Consortium will provide a unique opportunity to students who are close to finishing, or who have very recently finished, their doctorate degree, to interact with renowned and experienced researchers in the field, and discuss with them their ongoing research and career plans. One senior member of the community will be assigned as mentor for each student based on the student's preference or similarity of research interests. At the meeting, each student will present a poster either overviewing his or her thesis research or a single recent paper, which will be discussed with the mentors and other participants.
Participants
The resumes of most participants are available upon request to the DC chair.
Eligibility
All Ph.D. students in computer vision who will graduate within the next 6 months, as well as those who have graduated in the past 6 months, are eligible.
Submission Guidelines
Eligible students who would like to participate in the Doctoral Consortium should submit an application via CMT at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/CVPRDC2016/. The application is due on March 23, and should include the following. Items 1-3 will be part of the application form. Items 4-8 should be combined into a single pdf file. Incomplete applications will be rejected.
1. Is your university/college/department a US institution?
2. What is your expected graduation date?
3. Is it ok to share your resume with companies attending CVPR?
4. The applicant's CV
5. A two-page research statement summarizing the applicant's research and progress to date
6. The title and author list of the poster that will be presented at the consortium, which may or may not be presented at CVPR as well.
7. A note from their advisor confirming the date of graduation and stating his/her availability as a mentor
8. The first and last names and email addresses for 7 potential mentors, ranked from most to least preferred
Review Process
If all applications cannot be supported, selection will be based on the above material and the student's graduation date. Institutional representation will be taken into account; it is unlikely that more than two students from the same institution will be invited.
Travel Awards
Selected students will receive travel reimbursements for part of their expenses. The amount is anticipated to be on the order of $800 per participant (depending on the student registration fee). The awards will be in the form of a reimbursement check that you will receive after the conference and after you submit receipts. You need itemized receipts that show what exactly you paid for. Allowable expenses include:
- airfare (Note: Save your boarding passes and include them.)
- ground transportation (Note: If you want to drive your own car, you will be reimbursed for mileage at the federal rate; for cabs, you need to get a receipt.)
- conference registration and extra page fees
- hotel or AirBnB (Note: Don't use AirBnB if you can't get a formal receipt. Room service cannot be reimbursed.)
- meals not provided by the conference (Note: Dish names should be included. Alcohol cannot be reimbursed.)
- Scan your receipts, including any boarding passes you have, and put all of them in a single PDF named [firstname_lastname]_receipts.pdf
- Fill out a form W-9 (if you are a US citizen or "other U.S. person, including a resident alien individual") or W-8Ben (otherwise) and save it as [firstname_lastname]_form.pdf
- Make a spreadsheet with all of your expenses that you want to have reimbursed by the DC. Include each item (for which you also provide a receipt) as well as the total amount. Name this [firstname_lastname]_table.[xls/xlsx/csv]
- Send these three appropriately named files to the contact email address below.