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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>============================================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> Early Career Symposium<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> held as part of FOIS 2014 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 24, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> <a href="http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/ecs.html">http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/ecs.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>============================================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> Application deadline: May 19, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>============================================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Scope:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>The FOIS 2014 conference will host an Early Career Symposium (ECS). This event is designed to provide an opportunity for graduate students to present their work at one of the leading conferences in formal ontology and to get first-hand feedback and mentorship from senior researchers in their field. It will also allow participants to network with other early career scientists in the broad field of ontology. Topics of interest include all topics relevant to the interdisciplinary field of ontology as outlined in the topics of interest for FOIS 2014 (see <a href="http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/call-for-papers.html#topics">http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/call-for-papers.html#topics</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Format:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>The ECS will be held as a poster session within the main FOIS conference. The poster session will be opened by a lightning talks session, during which each participant has the opportunity to advertise his/her work in a 3 minutes speech in front of the general audience of the FOIS conference. Each participant will be assigned a senior researcher, who will provide substantial feedback to his/her work. Moreover, a PhD Lounge will allow early career scientists to meet and discuss their work with each other. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Application Instructions:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>The ECS is open to students at the Masters and Doctoral Level that have not defended their thesis before the ECS Submission deadline. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Candidates must submit a description of their research project (see the template at <a href="http://www.spatial.maine.edu/~torsten/fois14-ecs/ECS_submission_template.doc">http://www.spatial.maine.edu/~torsten/fois14-ecs/ECS_submission_template.doc</a>) and a current CV. Submissions will be reviewed by selected members of the FOIS Program Committee. Final submission is via <a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2014">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2014</a> (select the track 'Early Career Symposium'). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>All participants must register for the main conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Contact:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>For all queries about the Early Career Symposium, please contact the organizers at <a href="mailto:ecsfois14@gmail.com">ecsfois14@gmail.com</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Important Dates<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>May 19, 2014: ECS Submission deadline<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>June 23, 2014: ECS Notification of acceptance<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>September 24, 2014: Early Career Symposium<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>ECS Organizers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Marion Haemmerli (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Torsten Hahmann (University of Maine, USA) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Claudio Masolo (ISTC-CNR, Italy)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Janna Hastings <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> Email: <a href="mailto:hastings@ebi.ac.uk">hastings@ebi.ac.uk</a> | Tel: +44 (0)1223 494411 | Fax: +44 (0)1223 494468<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> Twitter: @jannahastings | ORCID: 0000-0002-3469-4923 | Web: <a href="http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~hastings">www.ebi.ac.uk/~hastings</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Coordinator, Cheminformatics and Metabolism, European Bioinformatics Institute<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Visit ChEBI at <a href="http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi">www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>