*************************** CALL FOR PAPERS *************************** 1st ASPLOS Doctoral Workshop http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~tmj32/asplos12dw/ In conjunction with ASPLOS 2012 London, UK, March 4th, 2012 *********************************************************************** OVERVIEW The 1st ASPLOS Doctoral Workshop will provide a forum for PhD students at all stages in their research to present their work and receive constructive feedback from experts in their field. Technical presentations will be augmented with general advice and discussions about getting a PhD, doing research, and post-doctoral careers. We invite applications from PhD students at any stage of their doctoral studies within systems and architecture research. The main goal of the ASPLOS Doctoral Workshop is to foster excellence in systems and architecture research by giving PhD students feedback and advice that is particularly relevant to their doctoral studies and career development. Each participant will be paired up with a senior researcher who will act as as a mentor, providing encouragement and guidance on future plans. TOPICS We anticipate most participants to be current PhD students who have selected a clear research topic. Research topics of interest include "systems" work in the broadest sense, including work on formal foundations, as well as the design, implementation and evaluation of real systems. APPLICATION Applicants are asked to place themselves into one of two groups: * Group A for Planners, who are planning their research and are at an early stage in their PhD. * Group B for Finishers, who are close to finishing their thesis and have a clear direction to their research. Both groups should submit a 2 page summary of their research. Planners should submit a research proposal that clearly identifies a problem, briefly presents related work, and discusses possible solutions. Finishers should submit a summary of their research to-date, a thesis outline and future career plans, post-PhD. In addition, Finishers can submit a conference, journal or technical paper as supplementary material. Reviewers will give constructive feedback on both groups' research and future plans. Submission should be a 2 page, PDF file in 2 column, single-spaced, 10pt font. It should be emailed to the workshop chairs, Timothy Jones (timothy.jones@cl.cam.ac.uk) and Onur Mutlu (onur@cmu.edu) with the subject 'ASPLOS Doctoral Workshop Submission'. All submissions will be acknowledged by email on or before January 6th. See the website http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~tmj32/asplos12dw/ for further details of the workshop format and submission instructions. *************************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES Submission: January 5th, 2012 Notification: January 19th, 2012 Workshop: March 4th, 2012 Note: Due to tight deadlines, we cannot extend the submission date. *************************************************************************** ORGANISATION Co-Chairs Timothy Jones (University of Cambridge) Onur Mutlu (CMU) Committee Krste Asanovic (University of California at Berkeley) Michael O'Boyle (University of Edinburgh) Rich Draves (Microsoft) Lieven Eeckhout (Ghent University) Babak Falsafi (EPFL) Krisztian Flautner (ARM) Steven Hand (University of Cambridge) Mary Jane Irwin (Penn State University) Christos Kozyrakis (Stanford University) Jim Larus (Microsoft) Gokhan Memik (Northwestern University) Tipp Moseley (Google) Partha Ranganathan (HP) Per Stenstrom (Chalmers University)