London Hopper Colloquium 2020

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London Hopper is an event for academic researchers across the UK who are building a career in computing.

UCL and BCS Academy will be presenting the 14th London Hopper Colloquium on Wednesday 28 October 2020. London Hopper is for academic researchers across the UK who are building a career in computing. Featuring women speakers talking about their research, a spotlight competition open to postgraduate students, and opportunities to network with other new researchers in computing, this year’s event will be held online, via Go To Webinar.  We will hear from women about their work on logic, quantum theory and digital music.

Spotlight Competition Eligibility: Women* research masters students and PhD students, with a Computer Science focus, enrolled at UK universities.

Audience attendance is open to all.

Submission deadline is midnight, 1st of October 2020.

Research Spotlight competition

The Research Spotlight competition focuses on female research Masters  and PhD students, providing them with a friendly forum for communicating the essence of their work. This will be via 3-5 minutes (depending on the number of accepted submissions) recorded presentations, broadcast during Hopper 2020. Presentation topics may be from any research area within the field of computing, and may encompass interdisciplinary studies connected to computing. There will be 10-12 spotlight presentations, split between two thirty-minute sessions. Prizes will be awarded for the best research spotlight presentations and each entrant will also receive a prize.

If you would like to apply for the research spotlight competition, please first register for London Hopper 2020 here on Eventbrite. You will receive an Eventbrite confirmation email, containing a link to a form to submit your abstract.

Submission deadline is midnight, 1st of October 2020.

If you have any questions about the event, please email us: hopper2020@cs.ucl.ac.uk

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