Guidelines

  • Registration: If you want to participate at WDS-M presenting a lecture or a poster, please register using the registration form on this website as soon as possible, but no later than Sunday May 19th, 2019, 23:59. Participants wishing to have both a poster and a lecture or more posters, please register multiple times - once for each of the activity. The number of different contributions is more important to us than the number of participating people.

  • Abstracts: The registration does not include a requirement to send your abstract immediatelly, at this stage, all we want is to determine the number of participants. However, it would be nice if you could send your abstracts by Sunday, May 26, 2019, 23:59, to the address rokyta@karlin.mff.cuni.cz, so that we can prepare and print the Book of Abstracts in advance. The abstract of the lecture should be written in English, the size of about 1 paragraph in LaTeX. We do not require abstracts for posters, but if you characterize a poster in one or two sentences, then each such annotation can be included in the Book of Abstracts, too.

  • Presentation: Participants' contributions constitute the main part of the program. The language of presentation is English for all of the participants, both for the practice reasons and also because some persons in the audience may not understand other language than English. The length of each contribution is not strictly prescribed. You can choose from the following options: 15 minutes, 20 minutes, 25 minutes. We add 5 minutes for discussion to these lengths by default. Do not worry - if there is no discussion, there will be a short break before the next contribution begins, which will be used for refreshment. Please do specify the length of your presentation in the mail in which you will send us the lecture abstract.

    Remember that the lecture should preferably introduce the topic of your doctoral research, especially to younger students. Therefore, please gear the presentation in such a way that it is accessible to someone who does not know anything about your topic yet. Please try not to overwhelm the listener with all the complexities and problems which you have encountered during your research. Do not prepare a lecture that would be appropriate for a professional conference with auditorium full of experts. Please take into account that some of the listeners are likely to have only a bachelor's knowledge, and therefore your topic might be beyond their comprehension. Do not be afraid to spend a considerable amount of time with introductory and motivating remarks. Also, avoid complicated technical details when presenting your results.

  • Posters: A specific time slot of the day will be reserved for posters. This part of the event will take place in the hallway. Poster discussions can be led in any language understood by all people present at the moment. It will be quite important that the presenters are positioned near their posters during the time specified for the session. Please follow the Program link for more information.

  • Refreshments and Lunch: Small refreshments will be available throughout the day. We are also planning a traditional common lunch in some nearby restaurant for all participants.

  • Inquiries: Please do not hesitate to ask any questions - use the email address of the person who updated this site.

Updated by Mirko Rokyta on May 12, 2019