2024_08_01_Young Reseachers_Symposium

Talks and poster pitches by doctoral students of Kaiserslautern and Landau / August 01, 2024

6th Young Researchers Symposium 2024

PhD students: Present your research to a wide audience in a compelling manner!

Every two years, the TU-Nachwuchsring and the High Performance Center Simulation and Software Based Innovation organize a competition for young researchers with all kinds of scientific backgrounds. The most exciting presentations, the best posters and the best abstract will be awarded prizes with a total value of 6.000 Euros!

The goal is not only to present scientific findings from young researchers in a way that is understandable to non-experts, but also to make the presentations as entertaining, interesting and exciting as possible.

Additionally, the coffee breaks and the get-together provide an opportunities to network and gain scientific insights from other fields.

We cordially invite all doctoral students* of Kaiserslautern and Landau to participate in the competition or to attend the symposium and vote for the best contributions.

More Information

Any questions about the Young Researchers Symposium left? Get in touch with us!

Via E-Mail: nwr-yrs@lists.rptu.de

All information on this event is preliminary and changes are possible.

To the Official Website YRS 2024

Call for Abstracts

During this time abstracts can be submitted: April 8^thto May 13^th, 2024

Registration as a participant: April 8^th to July 18^th, 2024

Here you can submit your abstract and register as a participant

Event details

Registration

Do You Want to Participate in the Talks and Poster Pitches?

Your admission ticket is a scientific abstract that will be reviewed by an interdisciplinary team of researchers. Therefore, it is of high importance that you describe your research in a commonly understandable way. A positive review will qualify you for the YRS 2024. Don´t forget to indicate your preference for poster or talk (but ultimately the committee decides).

Location

Fraunhofer Center, Fraunhofer-Platz 1, Kaiserslautern

Date

August 01, 2024

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Language

English

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Call for abstracts

Who is Eligible?

Doctoral students of the RPTU, the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE, the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI – location Kaiserslautern), the Institut für Oberflächen- und Schichtanalytik (ifos), the Institute for Technology and Work (ITA) e.V., the Leibniz-Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe GmbH (IVW), the Max-Planck-Institute for Software Systems (MPI - location Kaiserslautern) and the University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern.

Start call for abstracts: April 8^th, 2024

Deadline for submission of abstracts: May 13^th, 2024

Authors will be notified of the reviewers’ feedback as from June 17^th, 2024.

On our YRS 2024 conference website you can submit your abstract and register as a participant:

YRS 2024 Conference Management System

Please note: Register as participant before submitting your abstract. Co-authors must also create a user account if they wish to participate in YRS 2024 on August 1^st, 2024.

All accepted abstracts will be optionally published in the conference proceedings. Here you can take a look at the abstract book of the YRS 2022.

Requirements for the Abstracts/ Formal Criteria

Teamwork is accepted.

The abstract must be written in English.

It must not be longer than one page including optional figures and references, etc.!
It has to be prepared using the following IEEE templates (do not change the given style, format, etc.!):
- Microsoft Word
  A4 (DOC, 30 KB)
- LaTeX Template Instructions (PDF, 63 KB) [Be sure to use the template's conference mode.]
  LateX Template (ZIP, 700 KB)
  LaTeX Bibliography Files (ZIP, 309 KB)
- Overleaf
Upload your abstract as one pdf file.

Main Review Criteria

Does the abstract meet the formal criteria (language, citations, length)
Does the abstract illustrate the value of your research for scientists outside of your field?
Are the analyses/methods appropriate and comprehensible?
Is the overall abstract written in an easily comprehensible way?

Please note: only abstracts that meet the formal criteria will go into the review process!

Please keep in mind that the reviewers are representatives of all scientific disciplines, so it cannot be guaranteed that they are familiar with your special research field. For that reason, please make sure that your abstract is comprehensible and written in a more popular scientific way for persons outside your discipline and not for a review committee of a scientific conference in your field.

Symposium

Talks

The official conference language is English. There are 15 minutes scheduled for each talk, which includes the discussion (12 minutes presentation and 3 minutes discussion).

You may use videos in your presentations, but please make sure in time that they are also playable on our presentation computer.
You can also spice up your presentation with small live experiments and visual objects. Please consult the organizers for security aspects and additional equipment needed if you plan to do so.

Content, structure, organization and performance of the talk (e.g. a clear and comprehensible language, free speech etc.) are judged as well as the following discussion.

Poster Presentations

Pitch

You have 3 minutes in which you can present your research (your ‘pitch’) to encourage people to visit your poster to find out more about it.

Pitches involve:

a 3 minute oral presentation
one slide only (this slide should summarize the most important points/the core message of your poster)
no questions or discussion

Exhibition

The posters (A0, portrait) will be exhibited during the entire course of the conference for discussion during breaks. During the poster session you will have the opportunity to answer questions about your poster and discuss it with the jury members and other conference participants.

Both the performance at the poster pitch and the exhibition as well as the poster itself are included in the evaluation by the Scientific Committee.

Assessment

For the assessment and selection of the YRS 2024 prizes for the best contributions, the review of the submitted abstracts, the vote of the audience and that of the scientific committee will be taken into consideration.

YRS prizes

The interdisciplinary jury/scientific committee and the audience decide together on the best talks and posters. We are awarding prizes with a total value of up to 6.000 € for the most exciting presentations and best posters, and for the first time, also for the best abstract!

Audience

If you would like to register for the conference without submitting an abstract (audience), please create a user account on the Conference Management Website. Registration as a member of the audience is possible from April 8 to July 18, 2024.

Patrons of YRS 2024

Prof. Dr. Werner R. Thiel, Vice President for Research in Kaiserslautern, RPTU
Dr. Konrad Steiner, Managing Director, High Performance Center Simulation and Software Based Innovation

Scientific committee

Both the reviewers for the abstracts and the jury for evaluating the talks and poster presentations are composed of representatives from almost all disciplines of Kaiserslautern and Landau:

Reviewers

You will find the names of the reviewers here shortly.

Jury

You will find the names of the jury members here soon.

Organizing team

Melike Aksu (PhD student, Department of Biology)
Natascha Jeziorski (PhD student, Department of Mathematics (RPTU) and Fraunhofer ITWM)
Sylvia Gerwalin (Central Projects, Fraunhofer ITWM)
Fabian Kaufmann (PhD student, Department of Civil Engineering)
Meike Merz (PhD student, Department of Chemistry)
Dr. Inga Nissen (Office for Academic Career Development and Professorial Appointments, Manager of the TU-Nachwuchsring, RPTU)
Raphael Petrikat (Office for Academic Career Development and Professorial Appointments, TU-Nachwuchsring, RPTU)

RPTU / Interview / 15.04.2024

»Have the courage to try things out«

In this interview, Christine Pauli, second place winner in the »Best Talk« category of the YRS 2022, talks about her presentation, the competition and encourages all doctoral students to apply!

to the Interview {Only available in German]

YRS 2024

Symposium

Talks and poster pitches by doctoral students of Kaiserslautern and Landau / August 01, 2024

6th Young Researchers Symposium 2024

More Information

Call for Abstracts

Event details

Registration

Do You Want to Participate in the Talks and Poster Pitches?

Location

Language

Curious About YRS? More Info Here

Call for abstracts

Who is Eligible?

Requirements for the Abstracts/ Formal Criteria

Main Review Criteria

Symposium

Talks

Poster Presentations

Pitch

Exhibition

Assessment

YRS prizes

Audience

Patrons of YRS 2024

Scientific committee

Reviewers

Jury

Organizing team

»Have the courage to try things out«

Contact Press / Media

Sylvia Gerwalin

Contact Press / Media

Dr. Inga Nissen

Contact Press / Media

Raphael Petrikat