Annual Seminar for SIF Doctoral Students

On May 31, 2024, the annual seminar for SIF doctoral students will take place!

This day provides a unique opportunity for doctoral candidates in the field of computer science or related disciplines such as education, bioinformatics, ecology, information sciences, etc. They will have the chance to present their research to a panel of experts in the field, all in a friendly atmosphere.

Key Objectives of the Event

• Provide constructive feedback to doctoral students on their doctoral research.
• Stimulate new perspectives and ideas for ongoing theses.
• Increase the visibility of research themes and their actors within the community.
• Facilitate exchanges among peers, allowing doctoral students to establish valuable connections.

Target Audience

This call is addressed to all students engaged in a thesis in the field of computer science. Presentations and interactive workshops will be accessible on the conference website.

Join us for this enriching day that will promote collaboration, mutual learning, and the discovery of exciting advances in doctoral research in computer science. We strongly encourage you to take part in this event and/or to encourage the doctoral students in your laboratories to participate!

You can take part in this day as (1) a simple participant (listen to presentations, participate in exchanges) and/or (2) a speaker participant (present your thesis work).

Submission

To be able to present at the event (presentation between 10 and 20 minutes), we invite you to submit an abstract (maximum 1 page). The deadline for submitting your proposals is March 30, 2024 April 20, 2024.

The submission should include the following elements:

• Scientific problem (research question, challenges)
• The method used
• The results obtained or expected

Submissions can be written in French or English.

The scientific method in computer science by Baptiste Mélès

The seminar will begin with a presentation by Baptiste Mélès, a research fellow in philosophy at the CNRS (Archives Henri-Poincaré-PReST, Université de Lorraine). He has studied the relationship between philosophical rationality, the formal sciences - logic, mathematics, computer science - and languages. He is currently working on a comparative linguistic approach to computer programming.

Content of the presentation: What makes computer science a science? We will offer young researchers in computer science a general epistemological framework within which to situate their own research and methodology. To this end, starting from the general idea of science, we will propose a typology of scientific methods, which will make it possible both to see the methodologically cross-cutting nature of research in computer science and to avoid conceptual shifts between the different regimes of scientificity.