(Please accept our apologies for multiple postings of this announcement) ################ CALL FOR PAPERS PhD FORUM ISVLSI 2013 - IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI August 5-7 - Natal, Brazil http://www.lasic.ufrn.br/isvlsi2013/index.php?id=phd_forum ################ ******************************************************************************************** *About:* The PhD forum is hosted by the ISVLSI 2013 conference. It is a great opportunity for PhD students to present their thesis work to a broad audience in the VLSI community, composed of representatives from both industry and academia. They will be on the other side, getting a glance at the state-of-the-art in system design and design automation. Therefore, the PhD Forum is an excellent chance for students to receive expert feedback on their research and to establish contacts for future job opportunities. *Ten submissions will be selected to be presented at the ISVLSI 2013 conference and to be published (2 pages) in the Conference Proceedings.* *********************** *Who can present their work at the PhD forum?* - Students who have finished their PhD thesis within the last 12 months or students who are close to finish their thesis work. *********************** *Benefits:* The selected PhD Students will have the following benefits: - A poster presentation in A0 format at the ISVLSI 2013 PhD - To contact professionals from industry and academia; - To distribute flyers summarizing their PhD work; - The chance to receive the best PhD poster award of the ISVLSI 2013 (for this purpose, the program committee of the ISVLSI 2013 PhD Forum will evaluate the review results and the quality of the poster/ presentation at the conference). The best PhD poster award will be announced at the conference dinner. *********************** *Submission Details:* Submit a 2-page extended abstract describing the novelties and advantages of your thesis. Use the IEEE 2 column format, which can be found on this weblink: http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/pubservices/confpub/AuthorTools/confere... The submission interface is available at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isvlsi2013phdforum Paper Due: March 15, 2013 Acceptance Notification: May 10, 2013 Camera Ready Due: June 07, 2013 *********************** *Ph.D. Forum Chair Information* Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Michael Hübner Prof. Dr. Antonio Carlos Schneider Beck Filho *********************** *Ph.D. Forum Technical Program Committee Members* Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, UNB, Brazil Pascal Benoit , LIRMM, France Ateet Bhalla, OIST, Bhopal, India Fabio Campi , ST Microelectronics, Italy Joao Cardoso, INESC-ID, Portugal Pedro Diniz, INESC-ID, Portugal Adam Donlin , Xilinx Inc, USA Luca Fanucci , Uiv. Of Pisa, Italy Alberto Garcia-Ortiz, Univ.of Bremen, Germany Diana Goehringer , KIT, Germany Arnaud Grasset , Thales TRT,France Joerg Henkel , KIT Germany Andreas Herkersdorf , TUM , Germany Michael Huebner , Ruhr-Univ. Bochum, Germany Dimitrios Soudris, NTUA, Greece Julio Carlos Balzano de Mattos, UFPel, Brazil Marco Aurelio Wehrmeister, UDESC, Brazil