Workshop: i-Conference Doctoral Research Colloquium October 16-17, 2006 in Ann Arbor, Michigan

这笔资金用于支持25-30名信息领域博士研究生的博士研究研讨会（研讨会），与9-10名杰出的信息研究人员教员进行为期一天的会谈和互动。该活动将与2006年i-Conference同时举行，并紧接其后。2006年i-Conference是第二次会议，组织者希望该会议将成为一年一度的活动，汇集来自新“信息学院”的教职员工和学生。第一届i-Conference去年在宾夕法尼亚州立大学举行。大约300名教师、学生和嘉宾参加了这次会议，会议成功地围绕新的信息领域和i-school愿景建立了一种社区意识，将原本可能不会相互接触的人聚集在一起，分享他们对跨学科研究的看法。去年的会议包括一个博士生海报会议，参加人数非常多。今年的i-Conference将于10月16日至17日在密歇根州的安娜堡举行，并将包括10月15日上述扩大的博士研究讨论会。研讨会的目标是：建立一个新研究人员的队列小组，然后他们将拥有一个遍布世界各地的同事网络；聘请研究领域的专家，指导新研究员的工作；鼓励和支持资讯研究课题的选择；说明信息领域的相互关系和多样性；并使该领域有前途的新进入者有可能参加i-Conference并获得愉快和有益的经验，以便他们在未来几年回来并提交论文，小组讨论，海报等。学生参与者将由教师评审委员会根据申请人提交的材料选出，以响应参与呼吁；将注意确保讨论会是一次机会均等的活动。在三个平行的会议中，学生参与者将展示他们的工作，教师小组将提供反馈，以帮助学生理解和阐明他们的工作相对于其他研究的定位，他们的主题是否充分关注论文研究项目，他们的方法是否正确选择和应用，以及他们的结果是否得到适当的分析和呈现。当天结束时，该小组将召开全体会议，讨论就业市场和获得研究资助等各种专业问题。学生的论文将出版在一本小册子中，分发给会议的与会者。更广泛的影响：博士研究研讨会将有助于扩大从事该领域研究生学习的年轻研究人员的参与，为他们提供一个机会，使他们的创新工作在社区中获得更广泛的曝光，并获得研究社区资深成员的反馈和指导。它将进一步帮助培养这些年轻研究人员之间的社区意识，允许他们在他们自己之间以及与处于专业发展关键阶段的资深研究人员建立一个社会网络。由于学生和教师在几个方面（国籍，科学根源，方法）构成了一个多元化的群体，学生的视野在他们专业发展的关键阶段被拓宽，对该领域的未来有益。

This is funding to support a doctoral research colloquium (workshop) of 25-30 dissertation stage doctoral students in the field of Information for a day of talks and interaction with 9-10 faculty members who are distinguished Information researchers. The event will take place in conjunction with and immediately preceding the 2006 i-Conference, the second conference in what the organizers hope will become an annual event that brings together faculty and students from the new "Information Schools." The first i-Conference was held last year at Pennsylvania State University. About 300 faculty, students, and guests attended that conference, which was successful in building a sense of community around the new Information field and the i-school vision, bringing together people who might not otherwise engage with one another, to share their views associated with interdisciplinary research. Last year's conference included a Doctoral Student Poster Session, which was very well attended. This year's i-Conference will take place in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on October 16-17, and will include an expanded Doctoral Research Colloquium as indicated above on October 15. The goals of the colloquium are: to build a cohort group of new researchers who will then have a network of colleagues spread out across the world; to guide the work of the new researchers by having experts in the research field give advice; to provide encouragement and support for the selection of Information research topics; to illustrate the interrelationship and diversity of the field of Information; and to make it possible for promising new entrants in the field to attend the i-Conference and have an enjoyable and rewarding experience so that they will return and submit papers, panels, posters, etc. in future years. Student participants will be selected by a faculty review committee based on materials submitted by applicants in response to a call for participation; care will be taken to ensure that the colloquium is an equal opportunity event. In three parallel sessions, student participants will present their work and a faculty panel will provide feedback that is geared to helping the students understand and articulate how their work is positioned relative to other research, whether their topics are adequately focused for thesis research projects, whether their methods are correctly chosen and applied, and whether their results are appropriately analyzed and presented. At the end of the day, the group will convene in a plenary session at which various professional issues such as being in the job market and getting grants to support research, will also be discussed. The student papers will be published in a booklet that will be circulated to attendees at the conference.Broader Impacts: The doctoral research colloquium will help expand the participation of young researchers pursuing graduate studies in this field, by providing them an opportunity to gain wider exposure in the community for their innovative work and to obtain feedback and guidance from senior members of the research community. It will further help foster a sense of community among these young researchers, by allowing them to create a social network both among themselves and with senior researchers at a critical stage in their professional development. Since the students and faculty constitute a diverse group on several dimensions (nationality, scientific roots, methods), the students' horizons are broadened at a critical stage in their professional development, to the future benefit of the field.