Doctoral Consortium

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The SIGGRAPH Doctoral Consortium is a forum for Ph.D. students to meet and discuss their work with each other and a panel of experienced SIGGRAPH researchers in an informal and interactive setting. Ideal applicants will be within a year of completing their PhD and well into their dissertation research. Accepted students will receive a complimentary registration to the full SIGGRAPH 2018 conference.

The Doctoral Consortium committee will select approximately eight students to participate. Participants will be selected based on their anticipated contributions to the breadth and depth of the intellectual discussions at the meeting. Each applicant should provide a short written paper (no more than four pages (including references) in the official SIGGRAPH  publication format, as described in the author’s guide. Note that a doctoral consortium submission, unlike a paper submission, is not anonymous; doctoral consortium submissions should be single-authored, where the student applying is the sole author. This paper should describe ongoing work and might summarize the full dissertation work, or highlight a particular aspect of the work in depth.

Each student will be expected to give a short presentation of their work (20-25 min), which will be followed by extensive discussion with the panel and the other student participants. Each participating student will also be asked to prepare a poster describing their work for presentation in the SIGGRAPH posters program. Submissions are now closed.

Doctoral Consortium Committee:

Maneesh Agrawala, Stanford University (chair)
Kavita Bala, Cornell University
Keenan Crane, Carnegie Mellon University
Karen Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology
Gordon Wetzstein, Stanford University