[DMANET] Computational Geometry: Young Researchers Forum 2021 -- 1st Call for Submissions

The 37th Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG) will be held
virtually June 7-11, 2021 (originally scheduled in Buffalo, USA). It
brings together the global community of researchers who work on a
large variety of aspects that combine geometry, algorithms and
applications. To allow a broad audience to actively participate in the
community's major scientific event, this year SoCG will again be
accompanied by a series of satellite events, which together constitute
"CG Week 2021". See https://cse.buffalo.edu/socg21/index.html for
details.

One of these satellite events will be the "Computational Geometry:
Young Researchers Forum" (CG:YRF), which is aimed at current and
recent students. The active involvement by students and recent
graduates in research, discussions, and social events has been
longstanding tradition in the CG community. Participation in a
top-level event such as SoCG can be educating, motivating, and useful
for networking, both with other students and with more senior
scientists.

The YRF presents young researchers (defined as not having received a
formal doctorate before January 1, 2019) an opportunity to present
their work (in progress as well as finished results) to the CG
community in a friendly, open setting. Just like in the main event,
presentations will be given in the form of talks. A pre-screening (but
no formal review process) will ensure appropriate quality control.

Due to COVID-19, it has been decided that the entire CG Week 2021
(including YRF) will be online-only. Specific details about the format
will be announced later.

Submission guidelines:
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- The idea of the event is for young researchers to present new and
ongoing work. Therefore, the work should not have appeared in print in
a formally reviewed proceedings volume or journal by the time of
submission deadline, and at least one author must be a young
researcher.
- Topics must fit into the general context of SoCG, as described in
the call for SoCG submissions.
- Submissions must be formatted in accordance with the LIPIcs
proceedings guidelines
(https://submission.dagstuhl.de/documentation/authors#lipics) and not
exceed 80 lines, excluding front matter, references. To ensure an
accurate line counting, authors must use the LaTeX class file
socg-lipics-v2019, which is a wrapper around the standard class
(available at http://www.computational-geometry.org/guidelines/socg-lipics-v2019.cls).
Authors should refrain from putting excessive amounts of texts in
parts in which lines are not counted automatically.
- Submissions can contain an appendix of arbitrary length to provide
further details for the screening process, but the main body of the
text should be understandable without reading the appendix. Appendices
will also not be contained in the booklet (see below).
- The EasyChair submission link is
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cgweek2021
- Accepted abstracts will be compiled in a booklet of abstracts that
will be distributed among the participants; this should not be
considered a formal publication. In particular, participants are
encouraged to submit (an extended version of) their presented work to
a conference with formal proceedings and/or to a journal. Booklets of
abstracts from previous years' YRF are available here:
http://www.computational-geometry.org/
- The work must be presented at CG:YRF by an author who is a young
researcher. Otherwise, it will be removed from the program.

We will employ a two-phase screening process. After the first review
phase, there will be a notification of either rejection (if the result
is clearly out of scope, or technically incorrect), or conditional
acceptance, accompanied with a description of required changes to be
made (either with respect to content or format). In the second phase,
we will check whether the changes have been implemented
satisfactorily. The screening process is intended to ensure the
technical quality of the presented work. Submissions that are not
well-written risk rejection, irrespective of correctness. Authors are
strongly encouraged to have their submissions proofread by their
advisor or another experienced scientist.

Important dates (deadlines are 23:59 Anywhere on Earth):
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- March 14, 2021: Deadline for submissions
- April 7, 2021: Notification of conditional acceptance
- April 14, 2021: Deadline for revisions
- April 24, 2021: Notification of acceptance
- June 7-11, 2021: CG-Week 2021

Program Committee
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Mikkel Abrahamsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Paz Carmi, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Isreal
Brittany Terese Fasy, Montana State University, USA
Eunjin Oh, Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea
Marcel Roeloffzen, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Don Sheehy, North Carolina State University, USA
Haitao Wang (Chair), Utah State University, USA
Jie Xue, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
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