[Tccc] WoWMoM 2011: Student travel support
Habib M. Ammari
Habib.M.Ammari
Fri May 6 07:57:05 EDT 2011
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WoWMoM 2011
Twelfth International Symposium on a
World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
http://wowmom2011.imtlucca.it/
sponsored by
IEEE Computer Society,
University of Texas at Arlington,
IEEE CS TC on Computer Communications (TCCC)
June 20-23, 2011
Lucca, Tuscany, Italy
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STUDENT TRAVEL SUPPORT
Overview.
Thanks to the support of IEEE Computer Society TCCC and IMT Lucca (for students from any country) and NSF* (for US-based students only), a number of travel awards will be available to support students for attending WoWMoM 2011. The award can be:
- A grant, to be used for student travel-related expenses such as airfare, hotel, etc., or
- Complimentary lodging at IMT premises (from Sunday, June 19, to Friday, June 24, 2011).
*final approval pending.
Selection Criteria and Process.
- special efforts will be made to award student participants who are under-represented minorities (i.e., African-Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, and Native Pacific Islanders) and/or women, coming from diverse institutions;
- all student travel awardees are required to register for the conference;
- awardees are expected to make their own travel arrangements;
- a committee consisting of Mohan Kumar, Silvia Giordano and Yonghe Liu will evaluate the applicants and select the award recipients.
Application Process.
An application for a travel award will consist of the student?s vita, a letter from the student, and a letter from the student?s advisor.
The letter from the student should include:
- a brief summary of research interests and accomplishments to date;
- a description of areas reflected in the WoWMoM program that would impact the student?s research; and
- why the conference attendance is important to the student.
In addition, the student?s advisor should send a letter of recommendation to the committee, including:
- confirmation that the student is a Ph.D. candidate in good standing;
- the suitability of the WoWMoM program material to the student?s research area;
- ways this particular student would benefit from attendance at the conference;
- the strengths and potential contributions of the student; and
- availability of funds from other sources. In particular, the advisor, the student, and/or the student's institute is required to pay for the student's conference registration fee.
Applications must be sent by e-mail to all the members of the evaluation committee: Mohan Kumar (kumar [at] cse.uta.edu), Silvia Giordano (silvia.giordano [at] supsi.ch), and Yonghe Liu (yonghe [at] cse.uta.edu).
Important dates.
Application submission: May 20, 2011
Decisions/notification: May 25, 2011
Acceptance by the recipient: June 1, 2011 (Conference registration must be completed)
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