2025 Winter Simulation Conference
December 7-10, 2025
Sheraton Grand Seattle, Seattle, WA
Look to the Future! Simulation 2050 and Beyond.
Call for Posters and PhD Colloquium
The 2025 Winter Simulation Conference invites submissions to the Poster Session and the PhD colloquium. Both options require the submission of a 2-page extended abstract. If accepted, the extended abstract will be included in the INFORMS Simulation Society archives of the WSC Conference.
Participation Information – Poster Session
The Poster Session offers a timely venue to present and discuss new modeling and simulation research through a forum encouraging graphical presentation, demonstration, and active engagement. Contributions can present interesting recent results, novel ideas or works-in-progress. The poster session is open to everyone, including PhD students.
If accepted, you are expected to bring your poster to the conference and to participate in a Poster Madness session, where you will present your work in a 2-minute presentation with up to 4 slides.
Participation Information – PhD Colloquium
The PhD Colloquium is a format for PhD students who are within two years of graduation. They can showcase their work with a short presentation and a poster during the PhD Colloquium. Presenting your PhD work to your peers and the larger simulation community will give you the opportunity to receive valuable feedback and ideas, as well as introduce you to a network that can be very helpful for your career once you graduate.
If accepted, both ACM-SIGSIM and INFORMS-Sim will provide a complimentary one-year membership andreimburse your conference registration fee. You are expected to participate with a poster and a short presentation pitch at the PhD colloquium.
Submission Guidelines
To participate in either one of the formats, please submit a 2-page extended abstract using the paper submission system. Please indicate either "Poster" or the "Doctoral Colloquium" as your target track. Please use the Extended Abstract Template provided and follow its formatting instructions.
Please note that the regular Poster Session is different from the poster session at the PhD Colloquium. Students who showcase their work as a poster in the regular Poster Session are not eligible to participate in the PhD Colloquium (and vice versa). Hence, one should select to participate in either the regular Poster Session or the PhD Colloquium (but not both).
Additional Information
PhD Colloquium: https://meetings.informs.org/wordpress/wsc2025/phd-colloquium/
Poster Session: https://meetings.informs.org/wordpress/wsc2025/poster-sessions/
Extended Abstract Instructions:https://meetings.informs.org/wordpress/wsc2025/files/2025/02/WSC2025_ExtendedAbstracts.pdf
Extended Abstract Word Template:https://meetings.informs.org/wordpress/wsc2025/files/2025/02/InstructionsForAuthors_ExtendedAbstracts.docx
Paper Submission System: https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/wsc/
Deadlines
August 1, 2025: Electronically submit 2-page extended abstracts for Poster Session
August 29, 2025: Electronically submit 2-page extended abstracts for PhD Colloquium
Points of Contact
Please direct all inquiries for the PhD Colloquium to Eunhye Song (eunhye.song@isye.gatech.edu) and for the general Poster Session to Le Khanh Ngan Nguyen (nguyen-le-khanh-ngan@strath.ac.uk) or Juan Leonardo Sarli (jsarli@frsf.utn.edu.ar).
WSC 2025 Publicity Committee
Steffen Strassburger, Technische Universität Ilmenau
Claudia Szabo, The University of Adelaide
Cristina Ruiz Martin, Carleton University
José Arnaldo Barra Montevechi, Federal University of Itajubá
Peng Yijie, Peking University
Aya Ahmed, Brunel University of London
Julianne Sansa-Otim, Makerere University
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Peter Haas
Professor of Information and Computer Sciences
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst MA
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