In case you have not yet registered for ABC in Helsinki (a.k.a. ABCruise), registration is open for just another week, with the all-inclusive fees of 200 euros for trip, cabin, talks, and meals! When registering you need to buy first a ticket on the Aalto University web shop: at some point, distinguishing between “Maksa” which means pay, and “Peruuta” which means cancel, may help! The submission of ABC posters is also encouraged till May 1, with emails to be sent to abcinhelsinki on gmail.
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ABC in Helsinki & Stockholm [deadline looming]
Posted in Kids, pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags ABC, ABC in Helsinki, ABCruise, Baltic Sea, cabin, conference fees, cruise, Finland, Helsinki, posters, sea, Stockholm, Sweden, workshop on April 1, 2016 by xi'anABC in Helsinki & Stockholm [registration now open]
Posted in Kids, pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags ABC, ABC in Helsinki, ABCruise, Baltic Sea, cabin, conference fees, cruise, Finland, Helsinki, sea, Stockholm, Sweden, workshop on February 22, 2016 by xi'anAs announced in earlier posts, ABC in Helsinki (a.k.a. ABCruise) will take place on May 16-18, 2016 on a regular cruise boat going from Helsinki, Finland, on the 16th to Stockholm, Sweden, and back to Helsinki before noon on the 18th. The workshop takes place from noon on the 16th till noon on the 18th, with a short break around noon on the 17th in Stockholm. Registration is now open and the fees are an all-inclusive 200 euros for trip, cabin, and meals! Thanks to the organising committee for achieving such a bargain! Just do not wait for registering! The submission of posters is also encouraged, with emails to be sent to abcinhelsinki on gmail.
another borderline conference
Posted in Kids, University life with tags conference fees, EUSIPCO 2015, IEEE, IEEE Xplore, Nice, signal processing, student fees on June 25, 2015 by xi'an
Following yesterday’s surprise at the unpleasant conference business run by WASET, I was once again confronted today with conference fees that sound like an unacceptable siphoning of research funds and public money. One of my PhD students got earlier personally invited to present a talk at EUSIPCO 2015, a European signal processing conference taking place in Nice next September and she accepted the invitation. Now, contrary to yesterday’s example, this EUSIPCO 2015 is a genuine conference sponsored by several European signal processing societies. From what I understand, speakers and poster presenters must submit papers that are reviewed and then published in the conference proceedings, part of the IEEE Xplore on-line digital library (impact factor of 0.04). As the conference is drawing near, my student is asked to register and is “reminded” of small prints in the conference rules, namely that “at least one author per paper must register by June 19, 2015 at the full rate”, student or not student, which means a 300€ difference in the fees and has absolutely no justification whatsoever since the papers are only processed electronically…
I checked across a few of the past editions of EUSIPCO and the same rip-off rule applies to those as well. I see no rational explanation for this rule that sounds like highway robbery and leads to the de facto exclusion of students from conferences… In fine, my student withdrew her paper and participation at EUSIPCO.
