[GDNET] CG:YRF 2017 -- First Announcement

[Therese Biedl]

Computational Geometry: Young Researchers Forum -- First Announcement
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The 33rd Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG) will take place July 4-7, 
2017 in Brisbane, Australia. It brings together the global community of 
researchers who work on a large variety of aspects that combine geometry, 
algorithms and applications. To allow a broad audience to actively participate 
in the community's major scientific event, this year SoCG will again be 
accompanied by a series of satellite events, which together constitute "CG Week 
2017”. See http://socg2017.smp.uq.edu.au/ for details.

One of these satellite events will be the ”Computational Geometry: Young 
Researchers Forum" (CG:YRF), which is aimed at current and recent students. The 
active involvement by students and recent graduates in research, discussions, 
and social events has been longstanding tradition in the CG community. 
Participation in a top-level event such as SoCG can be educating, motivating, 
and useful for networking, both with other students and with more senior 
scientists.

The YRF presents young researchers (defined as not having received a formal 
doctorate before 2015) an opportunity to present their work (in progress as 
well as finished results) to the CG community in a friendly, open setting. Just 
like in the main event, presentations will be given in the form of talks. A 
pre-screening (but no formal review process) will ensure appropriate quality 
control.

Submission guidelines:
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- The idea of the event is for young researchers to present new and ongoing 
work. Therefore, the work should not have appeared in print in a formally 
reviewed proceedings volume or journal by the time of submission, and at least 
one author must be young researcher.
- Topics must fit into the general context of SoCG, as described in the call 
for SoCG submissions.
- A submission must be in the form of a 2-page abstract, formatted according to 
a style file provided at the SoCG web page and submitted via easychair.
- Accepted abstracts will be compiled in a booklet of abstracts that will be 
distributed among the participants; this should not be considered a formal 
publication. In particular, participants are encouraged to submit (an extended 
version of) their presented work to a conference with formal proceedings and/or 
to a journal.
- The work must be presented at CG:YRF by an author who is a young researcher, 
else it will be removed from the program.

We will employ a two-phase screening process. After the first review phase, 
there will be a notification of either rejection (if the result is clearly out 
of context, or technically incorrect), or conditional acceptance, accompanied 
with a description of required changes to be made (either with respect to 
content or format). In the second phase, we will check whether the changes have 
been implemented satisfactorily. The screening process is intended to ensure 
the technical quality of the presented work. Submissions that are not well 
written risk rejection, irrespective of correctness. Authors are requested to 
have their submissions proofread by their advisor or another experienced 
scientist.

Important dates (deadlines are 23:59 Honolulu time):
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- April 17, 2017: Deadline for submissions - May 12, 2017: Notification of 
conditional acceptance
- May 19, 2017: Deadline for revisions
- May 26, 2017: Notification of acceptance
- July 3-7, 2017: CG-Week 2017

YRF Program Committee
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Therese Biedl, University of Waterloo, Canada (chair)
Arijit Bishnu, Indian Statistical Institute, India
Stephane Durocher, University of Manitoba, Canada Seok-hee Hong, University of 
Sydney, Australia
John Iacono, New York University, USA
Clement Maria, University of Queensland, Australia
David Mount, University of Maryland, USA
Yoshio Okamoto, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan