[Event at CIG] AAMAS 2025: Call for Contributions to the Doctoral Consortium

[Tim Baarslag]

Dear all,

Please find below the call for contributions to the Doctoral Consortium of
the 24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent
Systems (AAMAS 2025) to be held in Detroit, Michigan, USA, on May 19-23,
2025.

We look forward to seeing you in Detroit!

Tim Baarslag and Thanh Nguyen

Publicity Chairs

On behalf of the AAMAS 2025 Organizing Committee
—Call for Contributions to the Doctoral Consortium

We invite PhD students working in the broad research areas served by AAMAS
to take part in the Doctoral Consortium (DC) of AAMAS 2025. The DC is an
opportunity to interact closely with established researchers in your field
as well as other students, to receive feedback on your work, and to get
advice on managing your career.

Each accepted student will be matched with an established researcher from
the community who will act as the student’s mentor. The mentor will
interact closely with the student, will provide feedback on research and
career management questions, and help foster new contacts. Each accepted
student will also have the opportunity to present their work to their peers
and senior members of the community attending. The programme will be
completed with an informal lunch for participating students and mentors as
well as a panel discussion focusing on questions of career management.

The DC is specifically intended for PhD students who already have a
concrete research proposal and preliminary results, but who still have
sufficient time before the completion of their dissertation so as to be
able to benefit from the DC experience. Preference will be given to
students satisfying these criteria, but well-motivated applications from
students who are at earlier or later stages of their doctoral studies will
also be considered.

Submission



1.     Application package: A complete application package to the DC should
be submitted as a single PDF and should have the following components (in
this order):



●      Cover page (1 page), with the following information: name,
university, homepage, preferred personal pronouns, citizenship, PhD start
date, expected graduation date, and name(s) of PhD supervisor(s).

●      Extended abstract (2 pages + 1 page of references) motivating and
describing your PhD topic and outlining some of the results obtained so far
as well as your plans for continuing the work.

●      Personal statement (1 page) with citations and brief discussions of
up to five papers that have inspired your own research.

●      Curriculum vitae (at most 2 pages), including your list of
publications.



The extended abstract must be formatted using the official AAMAS 2025
submission
format
<https://aamas2025.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/AAMAS-2025-Formatting-Instructions-CCBY.zip>,
including abstract and keywords. Look at the proceedings
<https://www.ifaamas.org/proceedings.html> of past editions of AAMAS for
inspiration for how to write such a document.



In addition, you will need to provide:



2.     Letter of support: A 1-page letter (PDF) by your supervisor (signed
and on official letterhead), in which they confirm that they support your
application to the DC and explain why they believe that this is the right
moment for you to attend the DC. A detailed letter of recommendation is
neither required nor expected.

   3.

   Mentor suggestions: The names and affiliations of three or more
   individuals you would hope might get assigned to you as a mentor during the
   DC. These should be established members of the AAMAS research community who
   would typically attend the conference. For inspiration, look at the
   listings of PC and SPC members of recent editions of the conference and ask
   your supervisor for advice.



If your application is accepted, your extended abstract (and none of the
other components of your application package) will get published in the
official AAMAS-2025 conference proceedings.



Submissions should be made through EasyChair AAMAS 2025 DC page:



AAMAS 2025 Doctoral Consortium Submission Link
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dcaamas25>



Note that you will need to register an abstract (outlining your research
topic in a few lines) several days before the final submission deadline.
You can update your submission as often as you like before that final
deadline, and you are advised to make use of this opportunity.



You are welcome to also apply for a scholarship, but please note that this
is a separate process. While acceptance to the DC may play a role in
scholarship decisions, those decisions are made by the scholarship chairs
and are subject to available funding.



Important Dates



●      Submission Opens: Monday, 18 November 2024

●      Abstract Deadline: Monday, 13 January 2025

●      Submission Deadline: Friday, 17 January 2025

●      Author Notification: Monday, 17 February 2025

●      Camera-Ready Deadline: Wednesday 26 February 2025



All deadlines are at the end of the specified day, anywhere on Earth
(UTC-12).





Questions?



For any questions, please contact the DC chairs either through EasyChair (
dcaamas25 at easychair.org), or directly: Roxana Rădulescu (Utrecht
University, r.t.radulescu at uu.nl) and Reshef Meir (Technion-Israel Inst. of
Technology, reshefm at ie.technion.ac.il).