You will be given an option to sign up for a minisymposium or poster session talk while filling out the registration form. Please make sure to do this before September 5, 2025.
The organizers will use the talk title and keywords provided during registration to place speakers into minisymposia on related topics. We will also take into account the seniority levels and home institutions of the registered participants.
The organizers' aim is to keep each minisymposium as coherent as possible subject matter-wise, while also varying the institutions and seniority level of the speakers, in order to maximize the networking opportunities that the minisymposium offers to each of its participants.
As mentioned in the previous question, the conference organizers will put together the minisymposia by default. However, if you'd like to organize a minisymposium yourself, you're welcome to do so, as long as the composition of the speakers in your proposed session aligns with the organizers' goals for the conference (see the previous question).
At a practical level, what this means is a group of four speakers, with the following requirements:
(1) at least two different position types represented, from the following list
(a) student or postdoc,
(b) lecturer or similar position
(c) pre-tenured professor
(d) tenured professor,
(e) industry position
(2) at most two speakers from the same institution.
All four speakers should be registered by the Sept. 5 deadline. Please email Trevor Leslie at tleslie@illinoistech.edu (cc Shuwang Li, sli15@illinoistech.edu) before Sept. 5, with the names of the confirmed speakers.
Finally, we hope that if you put together a minisymposium, that you will also be willing to chair the session.
Please see the page Participant Travel Funding on the conference website.
Yes; please see our page Accommodations for more information.