London Hopper Colloquium 2021

UCL and BCS Academy will be presenting the 15th London Hopper Colloquium on Tuesday 14th December 2021. 

London Hopper is for academic researchers across the UK who are building a career in computing. Featuring women speakers talking about their research, a spotlight competition open to postgraduate students, and opportunities to network with other new researchers in computing, this year’s event will be held online, via Zoom.  We will hear from women about their work on innovations that will change the world, fact checking, verification, and natural language generation.

Further details on the Eventbrite registration page.

Attendance is open to all. All are welcome. However, the competition is for women researchers and those who identify as women.

Read about the previous event: London Hopper 2020

Research Spotlight competition  - Prizes sponsored by IBM

The Research Spotlight competition focuses on female research Masters  and PhD students, providing them with a friendly forum for communicating the essence of their work. This will be via 3-5 minutes (depending on the number of accepted submissions) recorded presentations, broadcast during Hopper 2021. Presentation topics may be from any research area within the field of computing, and may encompass interdisciplinary studies connected to computing. There will be 10-12 spotlight presentations, split between two thirty-minute sessions. Prizes will be awarded for the best research spotlight presentations and each entrant will also receive a prize.

If you would like to apply for the research spotlight competition, please first register for London Hopper 2021. You will receive an Eventbrite confirmation email, containing a link to a form to submit your abstract.

Submission deadline is midnight 15th November 2021. 

Register for London Hopper Colloquium 2021