[students] Students Session at the DELPH-IN 2008 Summit

[Rebecca Dridan]

Hi all,

Those of you going to the DELPH-IN summit in Japan this year may have 
noticed that there is a students session on the schedule.  The idea 
behind this session is to allow students to get feedback on their 
research as a whole, not just the particular section that may be 
DELPH-IN related. Since there are too many of us to give long 
presentations, each student attending should give a short (3-5 min?) 
outline of their research plan/direction, including but not limited to 
your use of DELPH-IN tools and data, and highlighting any area you would 
like help or ideas for. 

This session should not stop students from presenting their work in the 
appropriate sessions. It is intended to be a higher level, more holistic 
overview of your thesis/research plan, to get feedback on your direction 
and future plans. Think of it as an advertisement for finding potential 
mentors, collaborators or citations from outside your own institution. 
Since the student session is fairly early on, this will allow time later 
during the summit to make contact with people who are interested, or 
have useful feedback to give.

It would help scheduling to know how many students will be presenting in 
this session. If you intend to, could you email me 
(bec.dridan at gmail.com), not the list, so I can get approximate numbers. 

This plan (along with the rest of the summit) is not yet set in 
concrete, so if you have other suggestions you'd like to see during this 
session, email me, or better yet, the list.

Also for all students, whether attending this summit or not, if you have 
any ideas for how we could better utilise the resources of the DELPH-IN 
community to help students, email the list so they can be discussed here 
and perhaps raised at the summit.

Rebecca

P.S. If you are not listed at 
http://wiki.delph-in.net/moin/DelphinStudents (or your listing is out of 
date), you should fix that :) If you don't have write access to the 
DELPH-IN wiki, contact info at delph-in.net and request it.