[sigcomm] CoNEXT 2009 student travel grants

[V. Arun]

http://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2009/grants.php

CoNEXT 2009 Student Travel Grants

With support from the U.S. National Science Foundation and AT&T, ACM  
CoNEXT 2009 will provide a limited number of grants to students to  
attend the main conference as well as to participate in the ACM CoNEXT  
2009 Student Workshop.

Requests for travel support should be submitted via the CoNEXT 2009  
Student Travel Grant Applications website by no later than Monday,  
12th October 2009.

The student should submit the following material: A resume, as a PDF  
file, and a cover letter providing:

A short statement (e.g., a couple paragraphs) indicating how the  
student would benefit from attending ACM CoNEXT 2009.
A brief summary (e.g., a couple paragraphs) of research interests and  
accomplishments.
An indication of whether the student has submitted a paper to the ACM  
CoNEXT 2009 conference or an abstract to the ACM CoNEXT 2009 Student  
Workshop.
Approximate estimated travel costs to the conference.
The name and email address of the nominator, who will be providing a  
letter of recommendation (see below).

Each student should arrange for his/her nominator (or a faculty  
contact if the student does not yet have a nominator) to submit a  
letter of recommendation. The applicant must provide the nominator's  
contact email address in the application, and the nominator will  
receive an email request to submit the letter of recommendation. It is  
the responsibility of the student to ensure that the nominator's  
letter of recommendation is submitted by the due date -applications  
missing the nominator's letter of recommendation will not be considered.

The letter of recommendation from the nominator must:

Confirm that the student is in good standing at his/her University.
Comment on the strengths and potential contributions of the student.
Indicate why travel grant support is necessary for the student to  
attend the conference, and indicate the extent to which the nominator  
can complement the travel grant to enable the student to attend the  
conference.

Given the limited availability of travel grant support, the travel  
awards will not cover the full amount required to attend the  
conference and the student workshop. In particular, conference and  
workshop registration costs will not be covered, while hotel and  
flight expenses will be covered to the extent possible. Award amounts  
are expected to not exceed $1000. As most of the student travel  
funding support comes from NSF, as per NSF policy, US students will  
have to fly with a US-based carrier to be eligible for reimbursement.

Strongest consideration will be given to applications that can both  
demonstrate need for the travel grant, and willingness to complement  
the grant through other sources. CoNEXT encourages the participation  
of women and under-represented minorities.

In making Student Travel Grant decisions, students with accepted  
posters or presentations at the ACM CoNext 2009 Student Workshop will  
be prioritized. However, the Committee strongly prefers students who  
are not authors of a conference paper or of a ReArch or U-NET workshop  
paper (the Committee believes the authors' home organizations should  
cover costs for authors).

Submission Deadline: Monday, October 12, 2009.
Notification: Travel awards will be announced on or around Friday,  
October 23, 2009.

Those students who have been awarded a travel grant must complete the  
ACM Reimbursement Request Form and return it to ACM as per the  
administrative procedure outlined in their Award Letter.

Questions regarding the Student Travel Grants may be addressed to the  
Student Travel Grant Chairs Arun Venkataramani (arun at cs.umass.edu) and  
Luis Costa (luish at gta.ufrj.br).
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