Invitation to Attend the INGRoup Doctoral Consortium
July 22, 2015 in Pittsburgh, PA
Sponsored by the National Science Foundation (SCC-SBE 1244737).
What: INGRoup proudly announces the doctoral consortium to be held immediately before the INGRoup conference in Pittsburgh, PA! The aim of the consortium is to support the development of the next generation of interdisciplinary group researchers.
Who: Up to 20 current PhD students who are members of INGRoup. If you are not currently a member, now is a great time to join INGRoup at the reduced graduate student rate, so that you can qualify for our doctoral consortium.
When & Where: The consortium will be held all day on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 in order to allow students to attend the preconference workshops scheduled for July 23.The consortium will be held on campus at the conference hotel, Westin Hotel and Convention Center.
Interested? Apply now! Please submit the following items:(1) your current CV, (2) a letter of support from your PhD advisor, and (3) a 5-page summary of either your dissertation or another lead-authored research paper in the area of group or team research that you would like to present and receive feedback on as a part of the consortium. Email all items as attachments to: multiteamsystems@gmail.com with the subject line: "INGRoup Doctoral." In your email, please confirm that, if invited to attend, you will arrive in Pittsburgh by July 21 so that you will be able to attend the full day of activities on July 22.
Key Dates:
May 8: Deadline to apply to attend
May 18: Notification to applicants
July 22: The Consortium!
Funding: This event is being sponsored by an NSF Research Coordination Network (SCC-SBE 1244737: Co-PIs Noshir Contractor & Leslie DeChurch). There is no cost to attend the consortium, all meals on July 22 will be covered, and in addition, all student participants will receive travel stipends in the amount of $500 for US students and $1000 for international students.
Sessions will include:
- Developing Programs of Research
- Comparing and Contrasting Different Sources of Data of Team Process & Emergence
- Mini-Brown Bags (opportunity for students to present in small groups and receive feedback on their research)
- Publishing High Impact Group and Team Research
- Computational Social Science – News Ways to Study Groups and Teams
- Not-to-be-missed Networking Dinner on the evening of July 22 for consortium faculty and students
Confirmed Participating Faculty:
- Linda Argote, Carnegie Mellon University
- Corinne Bendersky, University of California Los Angeles
- Noshir Contractor, Northwestern University
- Jonathon Cummings, Duke University
- Leslie DeChurch, Georgia Tech
- Brooke Foucault, Northeastern University
- Pamela Hinds, Stanford University
- Steve Kozlowski, Michigan State University
- John Mathieu, University of Connecticut
- Scott Poole, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
- Mo Wang, University of Florida