The IDA symposium particularly welcomes contributions by graduate students. In order to support this objective, the symposium will have a dedicated Poster and Video Track for PhD student research, and it offers reduced registration rates to all students.
If you are a PhD student and would like to present a poster about your research at the symposium, please submit a one-page abstract (in PDF format) by e-mail to
Each abstract should include a title, and names and affiliations of all authors. Poster presenters who would like to demonstrate software on a laptop are encouraged to do so, but we ask you to explicitly mention this upon submission. Within the extent possible, we will then strive to make available a table next to your poster, which you can use for your laptop.
There will be two submission rounds, the early deadline leaving enough time to apply for funding:
1) Early poster deadline: July 25
Notifications for all abstracts submitted on or before this date will be sent at once, and no later than July 30.
2) Late poster deadline: September 10
All submissions submitted after the first deadline will be judged on first-come first-serve basis; authors will usually be notified within a few days. However, no more posters can be accepted once the maximum number of posters has been reached.
Update August 13: the early deadline has passed, but submissions are still welcome!
Poster videos and Video Prize
To attract additional attention to your poster and research, all authors of accepted PhD abstracts will be invited to submit a video of maximum two minutes length. Videos will be displayed during the breaks, and the best video presentation will be awarded the IDA 2014 Video Prize, consisting of a plaque and 300 EUR. The prize winner will be elected by the symposium attendees, and this year’s prize will be sponsored by SAS. Posters and videos must be presented in order to be eligible to the prize.
Details about video submission will be made available later.
Need inspiration? Watch the video that won the IDA 2013 Video Prize.
Important dates
25 July 2014 – Early submission deadline
30 July 2014 – Early submission notification
10 September 2014 – Late submission deadline
