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Informatics Europe Bulletin: ECSS 2024’s Doctoral Symposium, Awards and New Publications
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In this issue:
Apply for ECSS 2024’s Doctoral Symposium and Poster SessionAs part of the ECSS 2024 program, a Doctoral Symposium (DS) and Poster Session will be hosted in the Early Career Researchers Workshop (ECRWS) on 28 October. Submissions are now open. IE’s Best Dissertation Award 2023 now published in dedicated Springer SeriesThe dissertation that won last year's Informatics Europe Best Dissertation Award (IEBDA) has been recently published by Springer. The publication is a revised version of the PhD dissertation written by Pepa Atanasova, our BDA 2023 winner, to receive her PhD from the Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. The dissertation presents research that facilitates the analysis of the reasons behind the outputs of machine learning models. With results applicable to complex reasoning tasks like fact-checking, question answering or natural language inference, the dissertation has been considered the most outstanding thesis in the field of informatics nominated for IEBDA 2023. New report by IE’s Diversity and Inclusion Working GroupIE's Diversity and Inclusion Working Group (WG) is dedicated to promoting awareness and best practices in diversity through inclusion across Europe's informatics community. The WG conducted a mapping study from December 2022 to assess ongoing diversity initiatives and collect information from university departments developing such projects. This study aims to highlight key activities and guide the development of effective practices. The report, which is available here, summarises findings from 33 initiatives captured during this period. We welcome comments and feedback for the report. Final EUGAIN conference in Lisbon and Gender Summit on 23 MayOn 21-22 April, the COST Action European Network on Gender Balance in Informatics (EUGAIN) held its Management Committee Meeting and Final Conference in Lisbon, Portugal. The Conference highlighted EUGAIN’s 3.5 years of efforts to improve gender balance in Informatics across Europe and beyond. More than 80 academics, researchers, industry representatives, and policymakers from over 30 countries gathered for interactive discussions on extending the impact of EUGAIN activities and achievements across Europe following the conclusion of the COST Action this October. The slides of the talks given during the Conference are available for download here. The results and best practices of the EUGAIN work can be found at https://eugain.eu/results/best-practices/. Upcoming deadlines and activitiesExplore our Open Activities webpage to learn how you can engage and benefit from our activities. Here are a couple of noteworthy highlights for you:
Events by IE members
IE member newsQuantum Computing: UnitaryFund Awards Marco Venere a Research Grant - Politecnico di MilanoMarco Venere, a student in the Ph.D. program in Information Technology at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, has won a research grant funded by UnitaryFund, a non-profit organization that aims to support the quantum technologies ecosystem for the benefit of the research community. The funded project is about integrating error mitigation techniques within an open-source framework for QAOA, a well-known quantum algorithm aimed at solving optimization problems. Read the full story here. Boost for autonomous systems research at SnT - University of LuxembourgThe University’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) has secured the support of the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) to spearhead a cutting-edge research programme, titled “Autonomous systems for Land, Air and Space” (ATLAS). AI composes personalized sound to help you fall asleep - University of StuttgartResearchers from the fields of musicology, neuroscience, psychology, and computer science from nine European universities are leveraging AI to investigate the most effective methods for aiding sleep. Together they examine acoustic stimuli with different frequencies, from white to pink to brown noise. The latter sounds like rustling leaves or heavy rain. Or even artificially generated melodies and rhythms, such as those used in a sleep study as part of Lullabyte, an EU doctoral network which attaches great importance to promoting young talent. |
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