Who is eligible?

Doctoral students of the RPTU, the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE, the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI – location Kaiserslautern), the Institut für Oberflächen- und Schichtanalytik (ifos), the Institute for Technology and Work (ITA) e.V., the Leibniz-Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe GmbH (IVW), the Max-Planck-Institute for Software Systems (MPI - location Kaiserslautern) and the University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern.

Start call for abstracts: April 08^th, 2024

Deadline for submission of abstracts: May 13^th, 2024

Authors will be notified of the reviewers’ feedback as from June 17^th, 2024.

All accepted abstracts will be optionally published in the conference proceedings. Here you can take a look at the abstract book of the YRS 2022.

Submit your abstract here. (Abstract submission opens at 08.04.2024)

Please note: Register as participant before submitting your abstract. Co-authors must also create a user account if they wish to participate in YRS 2024 on August 1, 2024. 

Requirements for the abstracts/ Formal criteria

• Teamwork is accepted.

• The abstract must be written in English.

• It must not be longer than one page including optional figures and references, etc.!

• It has to be prepared using the IEEE templates (do not change the given style, format, etc.!)

  • Go directly to the templates for Microsoft Word, Latex (Template Instructions/ Template/ Bibliography Files) or Overleaf 

• Upload your abstract as one pdf file.

Main review criteria

• Does the abstract meet the formal criteria (language, citations, length)?

• Does the abstract illustrate the value of your research for scientists outside of your field?

• Are the analyses/methods appropriate and comprehensible?

• Is the overall abstract written in an easily comprehensible way?

Please note: only abstracts that meet the formal criteria will go into the review process!

Please keep in mind that the reviewers are representatives of all scientific disciplines, so it cannot be guaranteed that they are familiar with your special research field. For that reason, please make sure that your abstract is comprehensible and written in a more popular scientific way for persons outside your discipline and not for a review committee of a scientific conference in your field.

Talks

The official conference language is English. There are 15 minutes scheduled for each talk, which includes the discussion (12 minutes presentation and 3 minutes discussion).

You may use videos in your presentations, but please make sure in time that they are also playable on our presentation computer.
You can also spice up your presentation with small live experiments and visual objects. Please consult the organizers for security aspects and additional equipment needed if you plan to do so.

Content, structure, organization and performance of the talk (e.g. a clear and comprehensible language, free speech etc.) are judged as well as the following discussion.

Poster presentation

Pitch

You have 3 minutes in which you can present your research (your ‘pitch’) to encourage people to visit your poster to find out more about it.

Pitches involve:

• a 3 minute oral presentation

• one slide only (this slide should summarize the most important points/the core message of your poster)

• no questions or discussion

Exhibition

The posters (A0, portrait) will be exhibited during the entire course of the conference for discussion during breaks. During the poster session you will have the opportunity to answer questions about your poster and discuss it with the jury members and other conference participants.

Both the performance at the poster pitch and the exhibition as well as the poster itself are included in the evaluation by the Scientific Committee.

For the assessment and selection of the YRS 2024 prizes for the best contributions, the review of the submitted abstracts , the vote of the audience and that of the scientific committee will be taken into consideration.

The interdisciplinary jury/scientific committee and the audience decide together on the best talks and posters. We are awarding prizes with a total value of up to 6.000 € for the most exciting presentations and best posters, and for the first time, also for the best abstract!

Prof. Dr. Werner R. Thiel, Vice President for Research in Kaiserslautern, RPTU

Dr. Konrad Steiner, Managing Director, High Performance Center Simulation and Software Based Innovation

If you would like to register for the conference without submitting an abstract (audience), please create a user account on the conference management website. Registration as a member of the audience is possible from April 8 to July 18, 2024. 

Both the reviewers for the abstracts and the jury for evaluating the talks and poster presentations are composed of representatives from almost all disciplines of Kaiserslautern and Landau:

Reviewers

You will find the names of the reviewers here shortly.

Jury

You will find the names of the jury members here soon.

Melike Aksu  (PhD student, Department of Biology)

Natascha Jeziorski (PhD student, Department of Mathematics (RPTU) and Fraunhofer ITWM)

Sylvia Gerwalin (Central Projects, Fraunhofer ITWM)

Fabian Kaufmann (PhD student, Department of Civil Engineering)

Meike Merz (PhD student, Department of Chemistry)

Dr. Inga Nissen (Referat Karriereentwicklung und Berufungen, Manager of the TU-Nachwuchsring, RPTU)

Raphael Petrikat (Referat Karriereentwicklung und Berufungen, Office of the TU-Nachwuchsring, RPTU)

Dr. Annika Straßner (Referat Karriereentwicklung und Berufungen, TU-Nachwuchsring, RPTU)

Fraunhofer-Center, Fraunhofer-Platz 1, Kaiserslautern