2025 SPWLA International Student Paper Contest
The SPWLA Board of Directors,
VP-Education, and 2025 International Student Paper Contest (ISPC) Chair invite
SPWLA student members to participate in the 2025 SPWLA International Student
Paper Contest (ISPC). The ISPC will be held on online and in person on Sunday,
May 18, 2025, as part of SPWLA 66th Annual Symposium, May 17-21, 2025, at
Hilton Al Habtoor City Hotel, Dubai. As in previous years, the ISPC will have
three different categories for undergraduate, M.Sc., and Ph.D. level students
and those students who are affiliated with a local SPWLA student chapter will
be required to go through a pre-selection step, known as the SPWLA International
Student Chapter Paper Contest (ISCPC). Students who are not affiliated with a local
SPWLA chapter, will be able to submit their papers directly to the ISPC for the
relevant degree category. Please note the following important pieces of
information, including important deadlines (in bold).
Only students attending an accredited university or having graduated from such within the 12 months preceding the ISPC are qualified and invited to submit their papers for the relevant degree category: Undergraduate (B.Sc.), Masters (M.Sc.), or Doctorate (Ph.D.).
Students affiliated with a local SPWLA Student Chapter must first submit and present their paper (abstract and presentation only) to their Student Chapter as part of the ISCPC. The local Student Chapter will rank and nominate up to three students at each degree category from their chapter to submit to the ISPC. ISCPC’s are run independently by the local Student Chapter and must be completed by Saturday, February 15, 2025.The rules of the ISCPC can be found in Appendix A.
Students without a local SPWLA Student Chapter are invited to submit their paper at their relevant degree category directly to ISPC.
All papers must be submitted to the ISPC online by Saturday, February 15, 2025. There are no exemptions.
All submissions to the ISPC must be completed using the online submission system that can be found at https://spwla.secure-platform.com/site/solicitations/102002/home. The login information to access the abstract submission system is the same username and password as you would use for the SPWLA website.If you do not have an account on spwla.org, you will need to create one first before submitting your abstract. There is no fee to create an account on spwla.org. Once submitted, all abstracts are final and can not be edited.
All submissions to the ISPC must include online entry form, online abstract, and online sponsoring professor declaration.
All papers submitted to the ISPC are allowed multiple student author(s)/presenter(s) and faculty author(s). Awards conferred at the ISPC are shared equally among student presenter(s). Faculty author(s) must have mentored or contributed directly to the study and are not allowed to present.
To be eligible for presentation at the ISPC, the paper must be authored and presented by a qualifying student(s) and must not have been submitted (even with no decision), accepted, presented, or published to any other venue, conference, or publication, including those of the SPWLA itself.
Students selected to present at the ISPC will be notified by email by Friday, February 28th, 2025.
Students selected to present at the ISPC must submit presentation file (MS PowerPoint attachment) online by Sunday, May 4, 2025. All presentations must use the ISPC template, downloadable online.
Although remote presentation at the 2025 ISPC will be possible, authors selected to present are strongly encouraged to attend the event in person where possible.
Funding is available from the SPWLA to assist with travel related expenses.
Monetary awards will be given to those who are awarded the top presentations within each category at the ISPC.
For any questions about the 2025
SPWLA ISPC, please contact [email protected].
We would like to thank you for
your time and interest in the SPWLA organization and we look forward to seeing
you at the 2025 SPWLA Annual Symposium in Dubai!
Kind regards,
Matt Blyth Amr Mohamed Serry
VP Education 2024-26 Co-chair ISPC 2025
Appendix A
Guidelines for the SPWLA International Student Chapter Paper Contest
The guidelines for the ISCPC are
listed as follows:
- SPWLA Student Chapters are individually responsible for holding their ISCPC, including call for abstracts, submission instructions, and selection of winning nominations.
- SPWLA Student Chapters are eligible for financial support up to $500 USD to hold their ISCPC, upon approval by SPWLA VP Education
- SPWLA Student Chapters must submit their plans for holding their ISCPC, including any request for financial support, to SPWLA VP Education ([email protected]) on or before Tuesday, December 10, 2024, to qualify for approval of financial support.
- SPWLA Student Chapters must select a minimum of three judges for their ISCPC, including at least one Faculty from the accredited university. Students are not eligible to serve as judges.
- Up to three papers (winning nominations from the ISCPC) within each degree level category (B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D.) may be submitted from each SPWLA Student Chapter to the ISPC.
- All chapters conducting their own ISCPC must have the competition completed and nominated students from each SPWLA Student Chapter must have submitted their paper online to ISPC by the deadline of Saturday, February 15, 2025.
- To be eligible to participate in the ISPC, nominated papers must be authored and presented by qualifying student(s) and must not have been submitted (even with no decision), accepted, presented, or published to any other venue, conference, or publication, including those of the SPWLA itself.