2025 Joint CEDAR / GEM Workshop

The NSF CEDAR workshop provides the community an opportunity to self-organize, exchange and foster new ideas. NSF CEDAR thrives to be a safe space for all participants with a strong educational component.

The workshop includes community organized breakout workshops as well as grand challenge workshops, poster session with a student poster competition, a student day, plenary sessions with science highlights, agency updates and tutorials, a distinguished lecture, and a prize lecture.

This year we will be hosting a joint workshop with GEM. There will be joint sessions throughout the conference, but if you register here you will be attending the CEDAR sessions when they are not joint.

Deadlines and Key Dates

Registration

See Fees information

Workshop Venue

Iowa Events Center, Convention Center
730 3rd St.
Des Moines, IA 50309
515-564-8000

Lunch restaurants near the venue

Lunch options will be posted closer to the event.

Agenda

Agenda will be coming soon.

How to participate in NSF CEDAR

See this brief overview of the NSF CEDAR workshop components, this is helpful especially for first time attendees. 

Student workshop attendance support

NSF CEDAR supports many students to attend the NSF CEDAR workshop. 

For students enrolled in a US institution and traveling from a location within the United States, financial support will consist of registration fee, roundtrip travel to the NSF CEDAR workshop venue, and housing. For students enrolled in an institution outside the US, financial support will consist of registration fee and housing.  To be eligible students need to submit a poster abstract (see below) and submit a Student Travel Support Form, which will open in January. Students will be notified in April if they have been selected to receive support.

More information can be found at the Student Travel Support Selection Guidelines page.

Dependent care grants 

NSF CEDAR helps community members with dependent care needs to attend the NSF CEDAR workshop.  Please read the dependent care grants information before filling out the form. 

Dependent care grant form will open in January.

Poster session

CEDAR will have two poster sessions allowing you to present and discuss your work with the community. Anyone can submit up to two poster abstracts. For abstracts NOT submitted by students seeking support, the deadline for submission is May 9th, 2025.

Students applying for workshop travel support MUST submit a poster abstract by March 21st, 2025. 

We encourage students to participate in the student poster competition.

Check out the poster guidelines

Poster abstract submission 

Poster abstract form will open in January.

Poster Details

Posters can have a maximum size of 4x4 feet (1.2x1.2m). Students in the poster competition are required to upload their poster by the Friday before the meeting starts. Instructions will be send beforehand to the students. All others can upload their poster if they want to.

Workshop proposal submission

Please check out the Workshop Proposal Guidelines. 

The final workshop agenda will be decided by the NSF CEDAR science steering committee. Based on the range of the topics proposed and the availability of time slots for individual workshops, some proposed workshops may be consolidated at the discretion of the NSF CEDAR Science Steering Committee (CSSC). (see proposal guidelines)

The 2025 CEDAR Workshop will be in-person, but conveners of individual and grand challenge workshops can choose to include virtual components. Conveners should include Zoom links in their online agendas if they choose to include virtual components.

Individual Workshops

Individual Workshops are 1 year efforts focused on a specific topic and the associated science questions. Most workshops are 1 year efforts.

Grand Challenge (GC) Workshops

Grand Challenge (GC) workshop addresses urgent, overarching questions which require a multiyear effort and are of high importance to the NSF CEDAR community. GC workshops are 3 year efforts and should be organized by a diverse team of conveners with a clear schedule and specific goals and topics for the 3 years. Each GC workshop will introduce the topic to the NSF CEDAR community in the plenary session in the first year and provide updates in the 2nd & 3rd, and a summary after year 3. 

Each year one new grand challenge workshop is selected by the NSF CEDAR Science Steering Committee. List of Grand challenge workshops.

How to Propose a Workshop

Workshop Propposal Form will open in January.

NSF CEDAR Prize and Distinguished Lecture nominations

Information about the nomination criteria and process can be found on the respective sites for the NSF CEDAR Prize Lecture and the NSF CEDAR Distinguished Lecture.

Nominations for the 2025 CEDAR Prize Lecture and Distinguished Lecture should be emailed to Jia Yue and Mark Conde. Nominations will be considered by the full CEDAR Science Steering Committee and are due 15 March 2025.

Contact Information

For program information, please contact Liying Qian.

For logistics questions, please contact Maggie Payeur.