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							| Doctoral Mentoring Program 
 
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							| May 13, 2007 
 In conjunction with:The Sixth International Joint Conference on
 AUTONOMOUS AGENTS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS (AAMAS-2007)
 Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, May 14-18, 2007
 
 
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       	| Introduction AAMAS 2007 will include a doctoral mentoring program, intended for PhD students. This program will provide an opportunity for students to interact closely with established researchers in their fields, to receive feedback on their work and to get advice on managing their careers.
 
 Specifically, the goals of the program are:
 To match each student with an established researcher in the community (who will act as a mentor). The mentor will interact closely with the student, will provide feedback on research, help form new contacts, etc.
 
 To allow students an opportunity to present their work to a friendly audience of other students as well as mentors.
 
 To provide students with contacts and professional networking opportunities.
 
 The doctoral mentoring program will consist of opportunities for interactions between mentors and their mentorees prior to the conference, as well as a one day doctoral symposium.
 
 Accepted Entries
 Group 1 (mentors: Maria Gini, Kate Larson):
 
Group 2 (mentors: Toru Ishida, Iyad Rahwan):Jaesek Ahn, University of Texas, USA
Reyhan Aydogan, Bogazici University, Turkey
Brent Eskridge, University of Oklahoma, USA
Andrew Gilpin, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Mattijs Ghijsen,  University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Sebastian Stein, University of Southampton, UK
Matthew Taylor, University of Texas, USA
Jie Zhang, University of Waterloo, Canada
Inon Zuckerman, Bar Ilan University, Israel
 
The full proceedings can be found here in PDF format.Hojjat Ghaderi, University of Toronto, Canada
Chris Jones, University of Texas, USA
Sachin Kamboj, University of Delaware, USA
Kiran Lakkaraju, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Raz Lin, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Antonio, Lopes, ISCTE, Portugal
Murat Sensoy, Bogazici University, Turkey
Mandeep Singh Multani,  Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany
 
 Program
 The program will take place in two rooms: "Pakalana" and "Anthurium" in the "Ala Moana Hotel" (the main conference hotel). Coffee and lunch will be provided.
 
09:00 Welcome
09:05-10:35 Session I (3 Students from each group)
10:35-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:00 Invited Talk: "Lessons from a Recent Graduate", by:
12:00-01:15 Lunch (provided)
01:15-02:45 Session II (3 Students from each group)
02:45-03:15 Coffee Break
03:15-04:45 Session III (3 Students from group 1; and 2 students from group 2)
04:45-04:40 Wrap Up 
 Important Dates
 February 16, 2007: Submission package due
 March 2, 2007: Notification of acceptance
 March 23, 2007: Camera-ready copy due
 May 13, 2007: Doctoral mentoring symposium
 
 Note that the one-day symposium will be held the day before the workshops and tutorials. This is so that students will be able to fully participate in all conference programs.
 
 Publication
 The proceedings of the Doctoral Mentoring Symposium will not be published as part of the AAMAS 2007 proceedings. However, they will be printed locally and disseminated among participants.
 
 Doctoral Mentoring Chairs
 Kate Larson (
  ) David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
 University of Waterloo
 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
 
 
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										| Iyad Rahwan  (  ) Institute of Informatics
 British University in Dubai
 P.O.Box 502216, Dubai
 United Arab Emirates
 
 
 | (Fellow) School of Informatics University of Edinburgh
 Edinburgh, EH8 9LE
 UK
 
 
 
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