SIG/ED Doctoral Seminar on Research and Career Development

November 16, 2004
Westin Providence, Providence, RI

Organizers: Barbara Wildemuth, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
and Javed Mostafa, Indiana University, Bloomington

Purpose

The purpose of this seminar is to provide a forum in which doctoral candidates and recent doctoral graduates can discuss their research and career plans with more senior scholars. During the seminar, the junior scholars will become acquainted with more senior scholars working in related areas and will have the opportunity to interact with their peers.

Participants

The following junior researchers have been invited to participate:

• Lennart Björneborn, Royal School of Information and Library Science, Denmark, "Small-world link structures across an academic web space: a library and information science approach"
• Linda Marion, Drexel University, "Of tribes and totems: an author cocitation context analysis of Kurt Lewin's influence in social science journals"
• Muh-Chyun (Morris) Tang, Rutgers University, "Browsing in a faceted information space: a longitudinal study of PubMed users' assimilation of a novel display tool"
• Betsy Van der Veer Martens, Syracuse University, "Theories at work: functional characteristics of theories that facilitate their diffusion over time"
• Meng Yang, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "Task-dependent video relevance criteria: a proposed naturalistic study"
• Xiaojun Yuan, Rutgers University, "Supporting multiple information-seeking strategies in a single system framework"

The following senior researchers will be working with them:

• Marcia Bates, University of California at Los Angeles
• Caroline Haythornthwaite, University of Illinois
• Barbara Kwasnik, Syracuse University
• Linda Schamber, University of North Texas
• Henry Small, Director and Chief Scientist, Research Services Group, Thomson ISI
• Paul Solomon, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Agenda