[sigcomm] SIGCOMM Rising Star Award: call for nominations

[Laurent Mathy]

SIGCOMM Rising Star Award

Each year, ACM SIGCOMM will present a "Rising Star" Award, recognizing a 
young researcher - an individual no older than 35 - who has made 
outstanding research contributions to the field of communication 
networks during this early part of their career. Depth, impact, and 
novelty of the researcher's contributions will be key criteria upon 
which the Rising Star Award Committee will evaluate the nominees. Also 
of particular interest are strong research contributions made 
independently from the nominee's PhD advisor.

The award will be presented at the annual ACM CoNEXT conference, where 
the award-winner will deliver a keynote address. Conference 
registration, travel, and lodging for the awardee will be paid by ACM 
SIGCOMM.

The nominee must be 35 years of age or younger as of December 31st of 
the year in which the award is made.

The Rising Star Award Committee solicits nominations for deserving 
candidates.

The nominator should solicit recommendations from colleagues in the 
field who are most familiar with the nominee's achievements.

Copies of published work should not be sent.

The nominator is responsible for ensuring that all nomination materials 
reach the Rising Star Award Committee Chair, by email, by the submission 
deadline.

Nominations that arrive after the deadline will be held over to the 
following year for consideration. Nominations that did not result in an 
award can be resubmitted or updated in subsequent years.

Self-nominations are not accepted.

Material to be included in the nomination:

* Curriculum Vitae, including publications of nominee.
* A statement, of maximum two pages, documenting the nominee's research
   accomplishments.
* A letter from the nominator, of maximum one page, justifying the 
   	nomination, the significance of the work and the nominee's role in 
the work.
* A maximum of four endorsement letters of recommendation from others, 
     which identify the rationale for the nomination and by what means 
the recommender knows of the nominee's work.

Nominations must be sent to rstar-nominations at net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de by
October 15, 2008, 11:59pm CET.

SIGCOMM Rising Start Award Committee
   Anja Feldmann, Deutsche Telekom Laboratory/TU Berlin, Germany (Chair)
   Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Tech, USA
   John Byers, Boston University, USA
   Kenjiro Cho, IIJ Research Labs, Japan
   Laurent Mathy, Lancaster University, UK