Common Questions

• What should I enter in the *Affiliation (full name)* field? In this field, you should enter the name of the institution where you study. If you are a student, please enter the name of the department that supervises your course of study, for example, “Faculty of Physics, Astronomy, and Applied Computer Science, Jagiellonian University, Krakow”. If you are studying at a high school, please enter the name of your school, for example, “August Witkowski High School in Krakow”.

• What should I enter in the *If you belong to a students’ association, please write its acronym as well as the acronym of your faculty* field? If you belong to a student organisation, such as the Mathematics and Natural Sciences Student Circle at the Jagiellonian University, please write the abbreviation of the name of the circle, for example, “KMPSUJ”. Additionally, please provide the abbreviation of the name of the institution where you study. Using the previous example, it would be “WFAIS UJ”. Please provide your response in the format of f"{circle}, {faculty}" e.g. “KMPSUJ, WFAIS”.

• What are Biosciences? Biosciences are all the sciences directly related to biology, such as botany, biochemistry, bioengineering, bioinformatics, medicine, etc. In other words, sciences about things that live.

• Where should I report an error in registration? Please write to us at our official email address: kmpsuj@uj.edu.pl.

• When will I receive a confirmation email for my registration? Confirmation emails should arrive within a few minutes of registering, although sometimes we have technical difficulties and the email may arrive after about a day. If the participant does not receive a confirmation email within 24 hours, please contact us by email at kmpsuj@uj.edu.pl.

• What is the CC BY-SA 3.0 license? By sharing the abstract/description under this license, we will be able to release our abstract book and conference proceedings under a license that allows for free copying while requiring attribution and maintaining the free license. At the same time, this reduces our problems with copyright, as a student organisation we do not have a legal personality. Details can be found at the Creative Commons – Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported – CC BY-SA 3.0.

• Can I change the information I provided in the registration? In such a case please contact via email at kmpsuj@uj.edu.pl.

Conference fee

• How much does it cost to attend the conference? TBA

• Is there a fee to attend the conference online? No. Gratis is an honest price.

• How do I pay the conference fee? To be announced. Bring some cash with you just in case.

• Are there any additional fees? No.

• Will I receive an invoice for the conference fee? To be announced.

Participation in the conference

• Do I need to be a student/Ph.D. student/employee of JU? No, active participation is open to all students and PhD students from all universities worldwide, as well as high school students from around the world. This group can also participate passively in-person, with access to merchandise, and - subject to organisational confirmation - lunch and coffee breaks. Moreover, passive participation in the online form is available to everyone.

• Where will the conference take place? With multiple exceptions, the entire event will take place at the Faculty of Physics, Astronomy, and Applied Computer Science at JU.

• Will food be provided during the event? Lunch will most likely be provided. Final confirmation will be shared closer to the event date.

• Will accommodation be provided by the organiser? The organiser does not provide accommodation. Participants are kindly asked to arrange their own lodging.

Presentations and Posters

• Does a presentation/poster have to be based on original research? No, it can also have a review (summarizing the latest research results from the literature) or popular science character. However, proper citation and use of others’ work should be maintained (information about the source should always be provided: title, author, year of publication, place of publication, and materials should be used according to the license specified by the author of the material).

• What will the poster session look like? It will be announced soon. You should probably put your poster somewhere and wait for people to see it.

• Can both a presentation and a poster be presented? There will be such a possibility if there are not too many participants, and then the presentation and the project will have to contain different information (continuation of a topic is allowed). However, in the case of a large number of abstracts submitted, we will limit participants to either a presentation or a poster.

• How many people can present one presentation? A maximum of 3 people, but all must register separately with the same abstract and a note in the “Comments” field about the joint presentation, where the names of co-authors will be listed.

• How many people can present one poster? One poster can be presented by one person.

• Who bears the cost of printing the poster? The participant is responsible for independently paying for the printing and bringing the poster to the poster session. The organisers will prepare special racks for posters.

• Do you have to attend all presentations? It is not mandatory to do so, but we would highly appreciate it if you did. Attending your own presentation is obligatory.

Certificates, Book of Abstracts, Publication

• When will the book of abstracts be available? At the latest, a few days before the conference begins as a PDF. There is a high possibility that it will be also given in printed form.

• Can a chapter be written for the post-conference publication? TBA

• When and where will the post-conference publication be available? TBA

• When will the certificates be issued? By the end of conference at the latest (or later). If necessary, we can issue individual certificates earlier (or later). In such a situation, please inform us by email at kmpsuj@uj.edu.pl. All certificates will be issued in paper to save electronics. In many cases, this is also a facilitation for participants who will attach these certificates to scholarship applications, etc.

Miscellaneous

• What is the origin of name SeMPowisko? Our association represents students of the Studies in the Mathematics and Natural Sciences programme (Polish: Studia Matematyczno-Przyrodnicze, abbreviated as SMP). The abbreviation resembles the Polish word for “vulture” (sęp [sɛ̃mp]), which inspired our association’s mascot. The name SeMPowisko is a neologism combining a non-standard spelling of "sęp" with the Polish suffix "-owisko", typically used to form place names.