{"id":657,"date":"2011-01-18T16:38:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T16:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/?p=657"},"modified":"2011-01-18T16:38:57","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T16:38:57","slug":"bcswomen-lovelace-colloquium-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/?p=657","title":{"rendered":"BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href = \"http:\/\/events.cs.bham.ac.uk\/BCSWomenLovelace2011\/\">2011 BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium<\/a> will be held at Birmingham University on April 14th this year.  As usual the centrepiece of the day will be a poster contest for women students of computing to show off their own work. If you&#8217;re a female undergrad in the UK, <b>ENTER!!<\/b> because <\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>It&#8217;s fun<\/li>\r\n<li>They only want a 250 word abstract now, and 250 words is <i>nothing<\/i><\/li>\r\n<li>If they like your 250 words you can put &#8220;Finalist in national contest for women undergraduates&#8221; on your CV, which looks brilliant<\/li>\r\n<li>You&#8217;ll get your transportation costs paid for<sup>1<\/sup><\/li>\r\n<li>You might win some cash<\/li>\r\n<li>You&#8217;ll get to meet loads of other women students<\/li>\r\n<li>There&#8217;s a free lunch<\/li>\r\n<li>You&#8217;ll get to meet women who work at some of the best IT companies in the world (hello Google!, hello IBM!)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>I came up with the idea and organised the first ever Lovelace Colloquium in 2008 and it was great fun, I ran it again in 2009, passed it on to Miki Burgess in Cardiff in 2010 and this year it&#8217;s being organised by the excellent Sadaf Alvi at Birmingham. I&#8217;m getting to do a short talk at this one (on BCSWomen) so I get to go along and enjoy it without having to do all the work &#8211; I&#8217;m really looking forward to the day already.<\/p>\r\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>This was true the first three years and it looks like it will be this year too, but I&#8217;m not organising so I shouldn&#8217;t promise anything.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2011 BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium will be held at Birmingham University on April 14th this year. As usual the centrepiece of the day will be a poster contest for women students of computing to show off their own work. If you&#8217;re a female undergrad in the UK, ENTER!! because It&#8217;s fun They only want a 250 word abstract now, and 250 words is nothing If they like your 250 words you can put &#8220;Finalist in national contest for women undergraduates&#8221; on your CV, which looks brilliant You&#8217;ll get your transportation costs paid for1 You might win some cash You&#8217;ll get to meet loads of other<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/?p=657\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-wic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions\/660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}