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Advice to Postgraduates presenting at the Conversazione

The 2009 Research Conversazione will be held on Friday 30 October, 2009, from 12.00 to 4.30 pm.

 

Combined SIT/SEIE Research Conversazione

This year we will be having a combined SIT/SEIE Research Conversazione exhibition in the SIT building level 1 Winter Garden on Friday, 30 October 2009. There will be around 40 fourth year and 80 postgraduate projects on display at this venue.

The Conversazione is an opportunity for students to meet industry people who might be interested in their work and an opportunity for students to win an award for excellence in project work. Several students have found employment through contacts made at the conversaziones. Around 100 industry guests attended the 2007 Conversazione.

Awards for Postgraduate Project Work at the Conversazione

PLEASE NOTE: Award categories are dependent on the number of poster submissions and may change slightly at the discretion of the Organising Committee.

Approximately twelve industry-sponsored awards for postgraduate research work will be presented at the 2009 Research Conversazione on 30 October. Awards will be for the best projects in the following categories:

  • Addressing Society's Needs
  • Advancing Scientific Knowledge
  • Collaboration with Industry
  • Solving an Industry Problem
  • Next Generation Applications (Computing)
  • Next Generation Applications (Information Technologies)
  • Next Generation Applications (Telecoms)
  • Next Generation Applications (Other)
  • Potential for Commercialisation (Computing)
  • Potential for Commercialisation (Information Technologies)
  • Potential for Commercialisation (Telecoms)
  • Potential for Commercialisation (Other).

SIT and SEIE Postgraduate Students presenting at the Conversazione

1. All SIT and SEIE postgraduate students are invited to enter their project in the contest for the awards for postgraduate research project work for 2009. Any one project can receive only one of the awards.

2. The awards for postgraduate research project work for 2009 will be judged by an industry/university panel at the Conversazione on Friday 30 October 2009. There will be no preliminary judging for the 2009 Research Conversazione.


3. Dr Dylan Lu will supervise the adjudication of the prizes.

4. Postgraduates interested in entering should first discuss their entry with their research supervisors and, if they decide to enter, inform Dr Lu on dylan.lu@ee.usyd.edu.au. Please use the subject "Conversazione entry" to distinguish your email from spam.
 

5. To enter the contest the students are required to prepare an A1 poster of their project using a template available on http://www.ee.usyd.edu.au/~jimr/teach/files/PosterTemplate.ppt Please use the subject "Conversazione template" to distinguish your email from spam.

6. Students should prepare their posters by MONDAY 19 OCTOBER 2009. Posters should be forwarded electronically to Dr Lu.

7  The EIE Foundation will organise printing and laminating of posters. In order to meet the Foundation deadline and ensure your poster is included in material for the Conversazione, the above deadline needs to be strictly adhered to.

 

8. The students are advised to print a supply of their posters in A4 size for handing out at the Conversazione.

Presentation of Awards

1. The EIE and IT postgraduate research project awards  will be presented on the day of the Conversazione at 4.00 pm. Thirteen fourth year awards and twelve postgraduate awards  will be presented at the combined SIT/SEIE exhibition in the SIT Building level 1 Winter Garden.

2. All students partcipating in the exhibition should attend the award presentations and be ready to come forward if their names are called out.

A4 Handouts
Postgraduates presenting at the Conversazione are advised to print, say, 30 copies of their posters in A4 size to give to interested people. The presenter's email address should appear on the handout in case visitors want to contact the presenter.

Projects authored by a Postgraduate and his or her Supervisor
In the case of projects jointly authored by a postgraduate student and his or her supervisor, only the postgraduate will be considered the "recipient" of any award.

Limitations on Awards
Any one postgraduate student may win only one of the postgraduate research project awards in any particular year.

Appropriate Dress for Conversazione
All presenters presenting at the Conversazione are advised to dress as if they were going to a job interview because a job offer might come out of your presentation. Several students have been offered jobs following past Conversaziones.

Name Tags
The Foundation will produce name tags for all the postgrads and staff presenting and hand these out on the day

 

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