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

这笔资金用于支持由25-30名信息领域博士研究生参加的博士研究座谈会(研讨会)，进行为期一天的演讲，并与9-10名杰出的信息研究人员进行互动。这次活动将与2006年i-Conference同时举行，并紧接着举行，这是第二次会议，组织者希望这次会议将成为一年一度的活动，将来自新的“信息学校”的教职员工和学生聚集在一起。第一届i-Conference去年在宾夕法尼亚州立大学举行。大约300名教职员工、学生和嘉宾参加了那次会议，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日在密歇根州的安阿伯举行，并将包括10月15日扩大的博士研究座谈会。座谈会的目标是：建立一个新研究人员群体，然后他们将拥有一个遍布世界各地的同事网络；通过邀请研究领域的专家提供建议来指导新研究人员的工作；为选择信息研究主题提供鼓励和支持；说明信息领域的相互关系和多样性；并使该领域有希望的新进入者能够参加i-Conference，并获得愉快和有益的经历，以便他们在未来几年返回并提交论文、小组讨论、海报等。学生参与者将由教师审查委员会根据申请者响应参与号召提交的材料进行挑选；将注意确保座谈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，一个教员小组将提供反馈，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，他们的主题是否足够专注于论文研究项目，他们的方法是否被正确地选择和应用，以及他们的结果是否得到适当的分析和展示。当天结束时，该小组将召开全体会议，会上还将讨论各种专业问题，如就业市场和获得支持研究的拨款。学生论文将以小册子形式出版，并将分发给与会者。广泛影响：博士研究座谈会将有助于扩大在该领域攻读研究生课程的年轻研究人员的参与，为他们提供机会，使他们有机会更广泛地接触到他们的创新工作，并从研究界高级成员那里获得反馈和指导。它将进一步帮助培养这些年轻研究人员的社区意识，使他们能够在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交网络。由于学生和教职员工在几个维度(国籍、科学根源、方法)上构成了一个不同的群体，学生们的视野在他们专业发展的关键阶段被开阔了，这对该领域未来的利益是有利的。

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.