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Experience at the SMC 2004 Conference in the Netherlands
Student Finalists
from left to right:Nasrine Bagheri, Machteld van der
Vlugt, H. W. Boschloo, Hongwei Ding and Thorsten Meinl
The IEEE SMC 2004 conference in The Hague, the Netherlands
was a success. In a period of 3 days, about 500 international
students descended onto the conference grounds to
present the work they were contributing towards or
were the main authors of.
Many
of these students submitted their work to be judged
in the SMC Best Student Paper Competition –
148 to be exact. The work of the top 75 papers was
later reviewed scrupulously by over 100 reviewers.
Top 5 finalists were selected and were asked to present
in the special session, where a panel of 5 judges
carefully evaluated each presenter's fforts.
The
selection was difficult and in the end Thorsten Meinl
was the successful candidate for his work on "Hybrid
fragment mining with MoFa and FSG." Thorsten
studies in the Computer Science Department at the
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. The best
student paper award was handed out in the beautiful
Kurhaus Hotel where Netherland’s famous musicians,
poets and painters have been meeting since 1885.
Other
finalists included,
Nasrine Bagheri, University of Toronto, Canada,
Hongwei Ding, INRIA, France,
H. W. Boschloo, Delft University of Technology,
Machteld van der, Delft University of Technology
Michael Baker, University of Massachusetts Lowell,
USA.
The
IEEE SMC society would like to thank student volunteers
who helped out with the conference logistics. Their
help was especially noteworthy when the student volunteers
where coordinating bus rides for conference attendees
to the airport on the day when all public transportation
in the Netherlands came to a halt.
Annually,
the IEEE SMC society has been providing financial
assistance to students who would like to present their
paper at the conference but do not have enough funds
to do so. This year there were 9 students who received
this travel grant. The recipients of the travel grants
arrived from Canada, USA, Turkey, India, France, Finland
and UK.
We
are looking forward to seeing many of you again in
2005 in Hawaii!
Anna
Zyzniewski
IEEE SMC Society Student Activities Chair
Ioannis
Patras
IEEE SMC 2004 Conference Student Activities Chair
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