School of Computing

Welcome to the School of Computing Conference

The Faculty PGR conference brings together postgraduate researchers from across the Faculty to share and discuss their work. There are invited talks of common interest and themed discussions.

Each School organises their own submission of PGR talks and posters. In the School of Computing we are inviting submissions of pre-recorded talks and posters to be viewed at any time during the conference. In addition we are scheduling an informal session for each research group. These sessions are a chance to get together online, have a cup of your favourite beverage, discuss the talks and posters from the group and anything else relevant to your research. You can also arrange to watch talks synchronously with others if you wish. Authors and presenters are encouraged to attend these sessions if possible to answer questions. You don’t need to be a member of the group to attend the session, you just need to have an interest in the area of research. You can also go to events and talks organised by other Schools and there will be a number of themed sessions for areas of common interest, for example, big data, digital twins or information security.

Group session schedule:

Monday 5th July 10.30-12 AMBER

Monday 5th July 2-3.30 ICOS

Tuesday 6th July 10.30-12 NUSE

Tuesday 6th July 2-3.30 Open Lab

Wednesday 7th July 10.30-12 Scalable

Wednesday 7th July 2-3.30 SRG

Thursday 8th July 10.30-12 EPiC

There are spare slots on Thursday afternoon and Friday morning.

Submitting talks and posters:

Participation in the conference is voluntary, but we’d like as many talks and posters submitted as possible, so there are no rules other than tell us about your research. We know that this has been a really difficult year, so we’d like this to be as little additional work as possible. Hence the emphasis should be on reusing talks and posters that you have already created. The conference is for internal University consumption only. Talks can be anything from a 3 minute summary of your entire thesis, to a conference style presentation of a paper or a version of your annual progression talk. You can do something on your own or as a group and it can cover any stage of study from initial ideas (“work before progress”), early results (“work in progress”) or something which has reached conclusion. We don’t mind, we just want to hear from you if you are able to contribute.

The deadline for submissions will be Friday 18th June. Details of how to upload your talk or poster will be made available nearer the time. If you are not ready by the deadline then don’t worry, you can submit an abstract and upload the content later.