**** Deadline extended to 26th March, 2015 ****

ACM SIGMOD 2015 Undergraduate Research Poster Competition

Continuing the initiative of the 2008 SIGMOD Conference, we invite 
submissions to the Undergraduate Research Poster Competition. 
Undergraduate students who have played a key role in a research project 
are invited to submit an abstract to this poster competition. Any project 
broadly related to data management is within the scope of the competition 
(for a list of sample areas of interest, see the ACM SIGMOD Call for 
Papers). Based on the quality of submissions, students may be invited to 
present posters that describe their research at the 2015 ACM SIGMOD/PODS 
Conference http://www.sigmod2015.org. Invited students will be offered a 
partial travel stipend to help defray conference attendance costs 
(registration fee, travel, lodging, etc.). The amount of the travel 
stipend is to be determined. A "best poster" winner will be selected and 
announced at the SIGMOD 2015 awards session.

====== Eligibility ======

For the purposes of this competition, a student is considered an 
undergraduate student if he/she has not yet obtained a BSc (or 
equivalent) degree at the time of submission. If the applicant's school 
system is "non-traditional," and the applicant considers him/herself 
eligible, then the SIGMOD Undergraduate Research Program Chairs should 
be contacted prior to submission.

====== Submission Guidelines ======

Each submission should be an extended abstract that describes the 
applicant's research work. It must be a PDF document of no more than two 
US Letter pages and it must follow the ACM Proceedings Format, using one 
of the templates provided at 
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html

Your abstract should include a problem statement, a contextualization 
with respect to the state-of-the-art, if appropriate, a brief technical 
overview of the solution, a summary of major results and any appropriate 
figures and references. If the applicant participated in a large 
project, his or her submission must clarify his or her contribution to 
the project. We require that one student and the supervisor are the sole 
authors of the paper.

Any submission that does not satisfy these conditions may be 
automatically discarded without further evaluation. Submissions should 
be uploaded at corresponding track at:
 
https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/SIGMOD2015/

by March 26th, 2015. Notifications of decisions will made by April 19, 
2015; authors of accepted abstracts will receive further instructions 
regarding submissions and travel allowances at that time. The SIGMOD 
Undergraduate Research Program Chairs reserve the right to reject all 
submissions.

Note: submissions to the research poster competition are permitted even 
if the student has already published a paper on the same topic or will 
have a paper on the same topic at SIGMOD/PODS 2015.

====== Program Chairs ======
Tasos Kementsietsidis (Google, USA) 
Anisoara Nica (SAP, Canada) 

====== Program Committee ======
Yi Chen (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA) 
Khuzaima Daudjee (University of Waterloo, Canada) 
Oktie Hassanzadeh (IBM Research, USA) 
Harumi Kuno (HP Lab, USA) 

====== Important Dates ======
Submission deadline: *** Extended to March 26, 2015 ***
Notification of results: Sunday, April 19, 2015

====== Submission Link ======
https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/SIGMOD2015/

Comments and questions should be directed to the competition chairs.