The CSGSA is pleased to announce the 2nd annual CS UNM Student Conference (CSUSC). The conference will be held on March 3rd, 2006 at UNM (location to be announced in a subsequent mailing). 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: Friday, March 3, 2006
Contributed Talk submission deadline: CLOSED
Poster abstract submission deadline CLOSED:

The conference webpage is located at http://cs.unm.edu/~csgsa/conference/ where additional information such as the submission guidelines, 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 abstracts electronically in PDF format - information about how to do this is given below.

--- Contributed Talk abstract deadline: CLOSED
We encourage students with well developed research to submit abstracts for talks. You must submit an extended abstract, not exceeding two pages in length (excluding references), for your contributed talk. Talk abstracts will be reviewed by the Program Committee, and a selection of high quality talks accepted. Although acceptance will be based on the content of the extended abstract, you may submit additional material (e.g., a paper or tech-report) to appear in the Proceedings alongside the abstract. 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: CLOSED
We encourage all students with new and preliminary research to submit poster abstracts. Poster abstracts should not exceed one page 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 csusc06 on the departmental servers.

1. The list of authors should include any of your collaborators, although if you are submitting an extended abstract, please place a * beside the name of the presenter.
2. For extended abstracts, you may omit the traditional 'abstract' block in the latex file if you wish.
3. Figures are absolutely allowed in the abstract, 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 an abstract of work that is being reviewed or has been published elsewhere.

--- Notification: Authors will be sent notification of acceptance or rejection by email on or before February 10, 2006.

--- Deadline for Accepted Abstracts: A camera-ready version of each accepted abstract (and additional material if submitted) is required by February 24, 2006.

Organizing Committee
• Aaron Clauset - General Chair / Conference Chair
• Keith Wiley - Proceeedings Chair
• Nick Pattengale - Publicity Chair
• Navin Rustagi - Program Committee (PC) Chair
• Avani Wildani - Area Chair / Vice-PC Chair

Terran Lane, Assistant Professor, UNM - Faculty Advisor

Program Committee
• Kenneth Ingham, Doctoral Candidate, UNM
• Jean-Charles Tournier, Post Doc - Systems Group, UNM
• Jared Saia, Professor, UNM
• Patrick Bridges, Professor, UNM
• Shuang(Sean) Luan, Professor, UNM
• Cindy A Phillips , Discrete Algorithms Group (DAG), Sandia National Laboratory

Judging Committee
• John Cochran, Doctoral Candidate, UNM
• Patrick M. Widener, Post Doc - Systems Group, UNM
• George Luger, Professor, UNM
• Shuang(Sean) Luan , Professor, UNM
• Calogero G. Zarba, Post Doc - Logic/Languages Group, UNM
• More coming soon...