<div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">*** <b><font color="#ff0000">Extended deadline: </font></b><font color="#ff0000"><b>Graduate Symposium</b></font><b><font color="#ff0000"> for Diagrams 2026</font></b>***</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">15^th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">August 24–28, 2026</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://diagrams-conference.org/2026/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://diagrams-conference.org/2026/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">*** Highlights ***</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Proceedings published by Springer</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Graduate Symposium</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Three Tracks: <a href="https://diagrams-conference.org/2026/calls/main-track/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">Main</a>, <a href="https://diagrams-conference.org/2026/calls/philosophy-of-diagrams/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">Philosophy</a>, and <a href="https://diagrams-conference.org/2026/calls/psychology-and-education/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">Psychology and Education</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">*****************************************************************</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The Diagrams conference provides a united forum for all researchers with an interest in the study of diagrams. The conference fosters multi-disciplinarity and allows researchers from areas such as computer science, mathematics, psychology, philosophy, history (of science, art, etc.), education research and more to meet and share their perspectives on the theory and application of diagrams.</span></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt"><font face="times new roman, serif">The goal of the Diagrams 2026 Graduate Symposium is twofold. Firstly, the Symposium will provide senior graduate students and recent Masters and Doctoral graduates with the opportunity to present their research. Established researchers will provide feedback and comments on each of the presentations. Secondly, the Symposium will provide students with an opportunity to network with each other as future colleagues.<br><br>In previous Diagrams Graduate Symposiums, lively and useful discussions have enabled students to receive suggestions about their on-going research and allowed more experienced participants to hear some fresh ideas and view some of the new trends in the field.<br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br>*****************************************************************</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Submission Requirements<br><br>Submissions that focus on any aspect of diagram research are welcome. Topics of interest are the same as those given in the calls for papers for the three conference tracks: Main, Philosophy, Psychology and <span class="gmail-Lm gmail-ng" style="background:none;border-bottom:2px transparent;outline:none;border-top-style:none;border-right-style:none;border-left-style:none">Education</span>.<br><br>Students who wish to present their work at the symposium must submit a 3-page report describing<br><br>– their thesis topic and the approach being taken,<br><br>– the work that has been completed,<br><br>– the expected contributions of the research,<br><br>– any necessary acknowledgements (for example, supervision team and source funding)<br><br><br>Students should be the sole authors of their submission, and the supervisor's name should be included in the acknowledgements section.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><font color="#ff0000">The report must be submitted in Springer LNCS format.</font></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font color="#ff0000"><b>Students who submit to the graduate symposium must ask their main or lead supervisor to submit a short supporting statement.</b> </font>The supporting statement should confirm that the supervisor supports the student’s participation in the symposium and briefly explain why the student will benefit.It is the student’s responsibility to ensure that their supervisor submits the supporting statement.<br><br>The supervisor's report should be sent to the Graduate Symposium Chair, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b style="font-size:11pt">Nathan Haydon <a href="mailto:nhaydon@uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank">nhaydon@uwaterloo.ca</a>.</b><br><br><span style="font-size:11pt">Submission should be made via EasyChair: </span><a href="https://easychair.org/confer-ences/?conf=diagrams2026" target="_blank" style="font-size:11pt">https://easychair.org/confer-ences/?conf=diagrams2026</a><br><br><font color="#ff0000" size="4"><b>Grad Symposium Due Date: May 15, 2026<br>Supervisor Report Due Date: May 22, 2026<br>Notifications Sent: May 29, 2026</b><br></font><br><br><span style="font-size:11pt">For questions, please contact the Graduate Symposium Chair, Nathan Haydon </span><a href="mailto:nhaydon@uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank" style="font-size:11pt">nhaydon@uwaterloo.ca</a><span style="font-size:11pt">.</span><br><br></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">More details and important dates can be found at<a href="https://diagrams-conference.org/2026/calls-2/tutorials-2/" target="_blank"> https://diagrams-conference.org/2026/calls-2/tutorials-2/</a></span></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b></b></span></p></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Publicity Chair, Diagrams Conference 2024</div><div>Reetu Bhattacharjee, PhD</div><div>Department of Philosophy</div><div>University of Münster</div></div></div></div>