Questions tagged [program-committee]
Questions about the roles, duties and obligations of the committee that determines the content and schedule of a conference.
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Late email to Professors for a Ph.D. program
I applied for some programs in the USA for a Ph.D. program for the fall semester and was very busy with my academic jobs, resulting in having no time to email the department faculties. So, I applied ...
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Should I mention my PhD in a PhD scholarship application?
I did not like my Msc. specialization (one of Chemistry streams). I won a PhD scholarship overseas. Though the area (protein engineering) was my favorite area, I graduated without having enough ...
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Would it be polite to ask the graduate program coordinator if my PhD application made the shortlist? [duplicate]
I recently submitted an application to a certain PhD program at a certain university. According the university's website and the graduate program coordinator, the graduate admissions committee will ...
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Program committee count as scientific achievements? [closed]
In general, should pc members/chairs count as scientific achievements?
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What is the difference between "Author Rebuttal" and "Paper Discussion" in Academic Conferences?
In academic conferences and their important dates, I know what "Author Rebuttal Period" is but it is not particularly clear to me what is meant by "Paper Discussion Period"?
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How are conference TPC (Technical Program Committee) members selected?
I've been a member of TPC (Technical Program Committee) of some famous conferences for few years. But this year, I, along with many, were not invited.
Wondering how is TPC selected? I guess the TPC ...
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Asking senior scientists for a subreview
I am a junior postdoc (1st year) part of a program committee in an international conference. As a member I have been assigned with several papers that I would like to delegate to subreviewers.
I have ...
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Should a senior Program Committee attend the conference?
I would like to know whether a senior Program Committee should attend the conference or not. I mean that physically being there.
Thanks in advance.
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Academic Conferences: Are "program committee" members always present at the actual conference?
For example, this conference (https://www.monash.edu/tenor2019/committees) is being held in Melbourne, Australia; but the Program Committee consists of over 40 members from interstate and overseas. ...
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Any advice for my first TPC task as a PhD student?
I'm a 4th year PhD student (in 5 years program) and recently I have been invited by a conference organizers to become a member of the conference technical program committee (TPC) for an international ...
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Who, and how to write when withdrawing a submission before notification?
I have recently submitted a paper to a top notch conference. Only then, I have realized that another good conference has announced a call for papers recently.
My problem is that the notification ...
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Which committee decides the speakers in a conference: SOC or LOC? [closed]
Conferences ask for abstracts for those authors wishing to contribute talks or posters. I wonder which conference committee decides on who gets a talk or poster based on the submitted abstracts; is it ...
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If I saw a research result similar to mine from my PC duties, should and how should I contact the authors?
It happened many times that I saw a paper submitted to a conference where I am on the PC, or a journal where I am editing, and such paper had something similar to what I am working on. The situation ...
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Be a member of TPC of a low quality conference
Recently I have recieved few emails from conference organisers to become a member of conference technical program committee. Three of them are international conferences and going to held in China and ...
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Is it OK to contact conference chairs and volunteer to review (specific to Data Science Conferences)?
I am a final year Ph.D. student. I work in the area of Applied Data Mining and Visualization. I have published at both KDD and IEEE VIS. I primarily work in the area of Natural Language Processing, ...
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