Places to Publish/Present Student Work

• It is our tradition on Reading Day of the Fall semester to host a poster session day, in and around the department labs. Senior projects' students are required to present but often students from other courses also display posters related to their work. Graduate IS students are also welcome to participate.
• Monday afternoons we often host Department Colloquia where researchers from around the country present their work. Most graduate students who elect to do the thesis option present their work at one of these colloquia. Sometimes two or more students present within the same colloquium. Such presentations could also be made by undergraduate students.
• Sigma Xi is the international honor society for research scientists and engineers. The Villanova chapter sponsors an annual poster symposium in late April to recognize and celebrate student research, and to give students an opportunity to further develop their skills in communicating their accomplishments.
• The annual CCSC Eastern Conference poster session in mid Fall and CCSC North East Conference in mid Spring are open to both faculty and student posters. You submit an abstract, of not more than 300 words, for consideration. Accepted abstracts that are submitted prior to the deadline, will be included in the published Conference Proceedings. During the Conference, an area will be provided for the display of the accepted posters and related materials, and presenters will be able to present their project or research to the conference attendees. There are also CCSC conferences in other regions of the country, some nearby.
• At its annual Symposium in mid Spring SIGCSE hosts the ACM Student Research Competition for both undergraduate and graduate students. Research from all areas of computer science qualifies. All graduate submissions must represent a student's individual research contribution but undergraduate submissions may represent individual or team research contributions. A student must be an ACM student member to qualify for awards and travel grants. Abstracts are typically due late September of the previous year for this prestigious competition.
• For the past several years the department has sent a number of its female undergraduate students to the Grace Hopper Celebration, usually in October. The Grace Hopper Celebration features one of the largest technical poster sessions of any conference, with over 175 posters. Presenters can choose to have their posters considered for the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC). Poster abstracts are due the previous spring.
• Several students from our department in the past few years have submitted and presented papers at the World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing. The Congress is a collection of over 20 parallel conferences in topics related to computing and is held mid-summer each year in Las Vegas.

Approximate Due Dates

• Department Colloquia occur throughout the year.
  Contact the colloquia administrator: Dr. Way
• Mid February: CCSC Northeastern Poster Abstracts
  Contact Dr. Joyce
• Mid March??: Grace Hopper Poster Sessions (but maybe this is the paper deadline?)
  Contact Dr. Beck
• Early April: Sigma Xi poster symposium registration
  Contact Dr. Damian
• Late May: Papers due for the World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
  Contact Dr. Joyce or Dr. Way
• Mid September: CCSC Eastern Poster Abstracts
  Contact Dr. Joyce
• Late September: SIGCSE's ACM Student Research Competition
  Contact Dr. Joyce
• Early December: Reading Day Poster Session
  Contact Dr. Joyce