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   Doctoral Programme  of the  Seventh International Conference on
     Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2001)
               www.math.unipd.it/~frossi/doctoral.html
                       www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/cp2001
                     November 26-December 1, 2001
                            Paphos, Cyprus
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                        CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
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CP 2001 invites students to apply for the First CP Doctoral Programme,
who  will provide  an opportunity  for a  group of  Ph.D.  students to
discuss  and explore  their research  interests and  career objectives
with a panel of established researchers in Constraint Programming.
The  CP  2001 doctoral  programme  has  the  following objectives:  to
provide  a  setting  for  mutual  feedback  on  participants'  current
research  and guidance  on future  research directions;  to  develop a
supportive  community  of  scholars  and  a  spirit  of  collaborative
research; to support a  new generation of researchers with information
and  advice  on academic,  research,  industrial, and  non-traditional
career  paths;   to  contribute   to  the  conference   goals  through
interaction  with other  researchers and  participation  in conference
events.
Program:  The program  will  consists of  students' presentations  and
tutorials given by senior researchers of the field.
Submissions: We encourage submissions  from students at any level, and
from any topic area and methodology within constraint programming.  On
the basis of  the submissions, the Organizing Committee  will select a
group of  students that will be  invited to present  their work during
the Doctoral  Programme, and also to  present a poster at  the CP 2001
poster session. We expect a commitment from all participating students
to  attend  the  entire  doctoral programme.   Students  accepted  for
participation  in the  Doctoral Programme  will  receive complimentary
conference registration and a fixed allowance for travel/housing.
The students' abstracts will be made available on the web 
and their printed version will be distributed on site.
Applicants should submit by e-mail to frossi@math.unipd.it an extended
abstract. It  should be at  most 6 pages  in length (usual  LNCS style
format), and should describe  original, unpublished work, completed or
in progress,  that is part  of the doctoral  work of the  student. The
extended abstract should be sent as a PostScript file.
In  addition, they  should ask  their dissertation  advisor to  send a
letter of  recommendation by e-mail to  frossi@math.unipd.it.  It must
include  an expected  date for  thesis submission.  In  addition, your
advisor  should indicate  what he  or she  hopes you  would  gain from
participation in the  doctoral programme.  This letter can  be sent in
as either a text or a PostScript file.
Important Dates:
- -- May 14, 2001: Application Submission Deadline 
- -- July 16, 2001: Acceptance Notification 
- -- August 20, 2001: Final version due 
Organizing Committee:
Christian Bessiere, LIRMM-CNRS, France. 
Alan Borning, University of Washington, USA.  
Eugene C. Freuder, University of New Hampshire, USA.  
Pedro Meseguer, IIIA-CSIC, Spain.  
Francesca Rossi (doctoral programme chair), University of Padova, Italy. 
Toby Walsh (CP 2001 program chair), University of York, UK.  
Inquiries:  Additional   information  will   be  posted  at   the  URL
www.math.unipd.it/~frossi/doctoral.html   and  may  be   obtained  by
contacting    the    chair   of    the    organizing   committee    at
frossi@math.unipd.it.
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                      Francesca Rossi
  Dipartimento di Matematica Pura ed Applicata, Universita' di Padova
               Via Belzoni 7, 35131 Padova, Italy
                  E-mail:frossi@math.unipd.it
             WWW: http://www.math.unipd.it/~frossi/
                     Tel: (39) 049-8275982 
                     Fax: (39) 049-8275892
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