[sigcomm] CoNEXT/Student workshop 2010 student travel grants available, application deadline Wednesday October 27, 2010

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Dear Colleagues,

With support from the U.S. National Science Foundation and SIGCOMM,
CoNEXT 2010 will provide a limited number of grants to students to
attend the main conference as well as to participate in the ACM CoNEXT
2010 Student Workshop:
http://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2010/Workshops/StudentWorkshop/index.html

Details are available below and here:
http://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2010/Local/grants.html

The main conference website is here:
http://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2010/

Sincerely,

Steven Weber
CoNEXT 2010 publicity chair

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Form and Amount of Support

The support is intended to defray, but not necessarily cover entirely,
the costs of attending the conference/workshop. Reimbursement amounts
will be determined in part by travel costs (consideration will be
given for those who have higher travel costs).

The award will be handled via reimbursements. Each legitimate expense
must be documented with an original official receipt (e.g., air ticket
and hotel receipt). The reimbursement will be sent as a check via
postal mail six to eight weeks after submitting the reimbursement
forms and supporting receipts. Further details of the reimbursement
procedure will be communicated to the award recipients.

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Eligibility

There are two categories of student travel grant: NSF, for which a
restriction applies as given below, and SIGCOMM, for which no
restriction exists on nationality or location of the student’s
institution.

To qualify for the NSF Student Travel Grant, the applicant must be a
US-based student, that is, a student attending universities in the US
(but does not necessarily need to be a US citizen or permanent
resident). As per NSF policy, US students will have to fly with a
US-based carrier to be eligible for reimbursement.

Special efforts will be made to recruit student participants who are
underrepresented in STEM disciplines, and who are coming from diverse
institutions.

***In making Student Travel Grant decisions, students with accepted
posters or presentations at the ACM CoNext 2010 Student Workshop will
be given higher priority.***

However, the Committee strongly prefers students who are not authors
of a conference paper or of a ReArch or PRESTO workshop paper (the
Committee believes the authors’ home organizations should cover costs
for authors).

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Application Process and Notification

Requests for travel support should be submitted by e-mail no later
than ***Wednesday, 27th October 2010***. E-mails should be addressed
to the Travel Grants Chair Tommaso Melodia (tmelodia at buffalo.edu).

The student should submit the following materials (as PDFs):
1. A resume
2. A cover letter providing:
A short statement (e.g., a couple paragraphs) indicating how the
student would benefit from attending ACM CoNEXT 2010.
A brief summary (e.g., a couple paragraphs) of research interests and
accomplishments.
An indication of whether the student has submitted an abstract to or
has an accepted paper in the ACM CoNEXT 2010 Student Workshop.
Estimated travel costs to the conference.
3. A supporting letter from the advisor stating
that the student is in good academic standing;
why the student is in need of a travel grant;
how Co-NEXT will benefit the student’s research progress.

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Important dates

Application Deadline: Wednesday, October 27, 2010
(No extensions will be granted)

Notification: Monday, November 1, 2010