The CSGSA is pleased to announce the 4th annual CS UNM Student Conference (CSUSC). There will be the following tracks

1) Research Talks
2) Graduate Poster Session
3) Undergraduate Poster Session.

A prize and a commemorative plaque will be awarded to the best entry in each category ($50 for the Best Talk, and $50 for each kind of Best Poster). We strongly encourage everyone in the department who is doing research (undergraduates, graduates, and post-docs; sorry faculty!) to submit to one of the relevant categories.

For the poster sessions, preliminary results are welcome. Talk submissions should be for more well-developed research projects, and can be for work accepted for publication elsewhere. The main goal of this conference is to create an environment in which the CS UNM community can learn about the research being done in our department, and potentially foster intra-departmental collaborations.

--- Important Dates
Conference Date: Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Contributed Talk submission deadline: Monday, February 11, 2008
Poster abstract submission deadline: Monday, February 11, 2008

The conference webpage is located at http://cs.unm.edu/~csgsa/conference/ where additional information such as early registration deadlines, the final schedule, etc. will be posted. Additionally, a copy of the conference proceedings will eventually be posted on that site.

--- DEADLINES ---
Submissions which deviate from guidelines listed below, including deadlines, unfortunately risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Authors are required to submit their papers/abstracts electronically in PDF format - information about how to do this is given below.

--- Contributed Talk paper deadline: Monday, February 11, 2008
We encourage students with well developed research to submit papers for talks. You must submit a paper, not exceeding four pages in length (excluding references), for your contributed talk. Talk papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee, and a selection of high quality talks accepted. Final talks should be at most 20 minutes long; we will allow for 5 minutes of question and answer following each talk.

--- Poster abstract deadline: Monday, February 11, 2008
We encourage all students with new and preliminary research to submit poster abstracts. Poster abstracts should not exceed two pages in length (excluding references). All topically relevant poster abstracts will be accepted; we simply need to get a list of people who will be presenting. Final posters should be a standard 36"x48" and can be printed by CS Support.

--- Submission Guidelines: All submissions must be in pdf format, must obey this LaTex template, and must be submitted electronically to the Conference Chair by the indicated deadline with the following pieces of information: your full name, your student status (graduate, undergraduate), and whether you are submitting a poster or talk. To submit, send your file and information to the username csusc08 on the departmental servers.

1. The list of authors should include any of your collaborators, although if you are submitting a paper, please place a * beside the name of the presenter.
2. For paper, you may omit the traditional 'abstract' block in the latex file if you wish.
3. Figures are absolutely allowed in the paper, but because of the relatively short length of submissions, please limit their number.
4. Finally, submissions to the conference are non-exclusive, so you are certainly free to submit a paper of work that is being reviewed or has been published elsewhere.

Senior Program Committee
• Sushmita Roy - General Chair
• James Horey - Advisory Chair
• Diane Oyen - Program Committee Chair
• Ben Yackley - Proceedings Chair
- • Donour Sizemore - Publicity Chair

TBD - Faculty Advisor

Program Committee
TBD

Judging Committee
TBD