Submit your original idea to the Computational Science Student Competition and win a prize in one of the two nominations:
(i) Best New Computational Science Application
(ii) Best New Computational Science Algorithm.
Each prize includes a fee waiver, a publication in the main conference proceedings, and an award certificate. Prizes will acknowledge both the student(s) and their affiliated institution and research group.
What to submit
A short paper of 6-8 pages, using the ICCS conference template.
Where to submit
Via Easychair: select the “Student Competition” paper category.
When
20 February 2026: submission deadline (final).
1 April 2026: the winners are selected and all applicants are informed.
Selection criteria
- The main criterion is the originality of the idea, application, model, or algorithm. This idea should come from the students and not from their supervisors, although the supervisors can co-author the submission.
- Other criteria include scientific rigour (here a minimum threshold needs to be met of credible academic research), model implementation, and level of detail and insight provided by the results.
Other conditions
- Students should have an active registration in a graduate or undergraduate programme (PhD, Master’s, Bachelor’s) at the time of submission.
- Students can form teams of up to 4 students from the same organisation. We’ll give only one prize with one fee waiver per nomination though.