15 - 19 September 2008
Every year Edinburgh hosts the largest arts festival in the world. Around this has grown up a vibrant "fringe" activity that provides the opportunities for unknown performers to present their plays/acts in parallel with the main festival and has now grown to be even larger than the "official" event. Following the parallel of the now famous "Fringe" events (see http://www.edfringe.com/ for more details) ESSCIRC and ESSDERC will be holding a "fringe" event to complement the main conference.
Like the Festival Fringe, this important conference event will be held in the same venue as the official meeting and is designed primarily to introduce young engineers and scientists and students to the ESSDERC/CIRC conference series although, in the spirit of the Fringe, anyone who wishes to participate is very welcome. The forum is ideally suited for the submissions of recent progress which may, in some cases, not be ready for a full paper submission. Alternatively, contributions may present some breaking late news, some ideas which participants would like the opportunity to discuss topics or even collaboration opportunities with other participants at the conference. It is expected that the emphasis of fringe submissions will be on the presentation of the latest data (both measurement and/or simulation) as well as new ideas. However, participants are encouraged to be innovative in the true spirit of the Fringe, and the organisers are keen not to be prescriptive. The forum will provide the opportunity to network with the ESSDERC/CIRC community to discuss their ideas and latest results. Fringe submissions will be electronically published in a separate proceedings on the same media as the "official" ESSDERC/CIRC papers.
In the spirit of the Fringe, reviewing will relatively light touch with the main emphasis being relevance to the ESSDERC/CIRC conference. As an incentive for students to participate any students submitting a contribution to the fringe event will be offered a reduced conference registration rate.
Posters will be on display during the event and specific time will be allocated in the conference programme for authors to discuss their work with other conference attendees.
On-line
submission is now available.
In the spirit of the Fringe, the submission rules are very flexible with only the requirement that submissions should be:
We would encourage prospective authors to use the same template as the ESSDERC/CIRC official conference but this is not mandatory.
Dr Tom Stevenson - E-mail: Tom.Stevenson@ee.ed.ac.uk
Dr Tony Snell - E-mail: Tony.Snell@ee.ed.ac.uk
ESSDERC/ESSCIRC 2008 acknowledges the Chipworks who have sponsored this
event.