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Doctoral Students Who Study Groups and Teams

  • 1.  Doctoral Students Who Study Groups and Teams

    Posted 04-24-2013 23:52
    Invitation to Attend the INGRoup Doctoral Consortium
    July 10, 2013 in Atlanta, GA
     
    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 Atlanta, GA! 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 10, 2013 in order to allow students to attend the preconference workshops scheduled for July 11. The consortium will be held on campus at Georgia Tech (location TBD) & transportation from the INGRoup conference hotel will be arranged.
     
    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: lesliedechurch@gmail.com with the subject line: "INGRoup Doctoral." In your email, please confirm that, if invited to attend, you will arrive in Atlanta by July 9 so that you will be able to attend the full day of activities on July 10.
     
    Key Dates:
    May 1: Deadline to apply to attend
    May 15: Notification to applicants
    July 10: The Consortium!
     
    Funding: This event is being sponsored by an NSF Research Coordination Network led by Noshir Contractor and Leslie DeChurch. There is no cost to attend the consortium, all meals on July 10 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:
    ·        Career Paths in Group and Team Research
    ·        What it Means to be Interdisciplinary
    ·        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
    ·        Networking Dinner on the evening of July 10 for consortium faculty and students
     
    Confirmed Participating Faculty:
    Noshir Contractor, Northwestern University (Co-Organizer)
    Leslie DeChurch, Georgia Tech (Co-organizer)
    Andrea Hollingshead, University of Southern California
    John Mathieu, University of Connecticut
    Mo Wang, University of Florida
    Scott Poole, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
    Stephen M. Fiore, INGRoup President, University of Central Florida
    Additional faculty participants TBA