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| Letter from Richard Tapia, May 27, 2008
Involvement in Professional Conferences — Including Deadlines for Students
Sent via email to the EL Alliance community
Dear EL Alliance Students, Mentors, and Partners,
Participating in conferences is a valuable professional practice and an important aspect of engagement in our community. We include information about upcoming opportunities as presenters, volunteers, exhibitors, or scholarship recipients on the EL Alliance Website and in the EL Alliance Newsletter, particularly when there are opportunities for student involvement.
There are several events coming up over the next year or so that we wanted to make sure you knew about now, so you could consider participating in the technical program or outreach efforts. This is a brief list; for more information, see the EL Alliance Website at http://www.empoweringleadership.org/Events/of_interest.html.
Note in particular the deadlines for student opportunities for the Grace Hopper Celebration, Society of Professional Hispanic Engineers, and SC08. These events offer student scholarships, awards, or volunteer opportunities.
Sincerely,
Richard Tapia
Principal Investigator, EL Alliance
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CONFERENCES/EVENTS OF INTEREST, EL ALLIANCE
TeraGrid
June 9-13, 2008
Las Vegas, NV
http://www.teragrid.org/index.php
SIAM annual meeting
July 7-11, 2008
San Diego, CA
http://www.siam.org/meetings/an08/
Diversity Day: http://www.siam.org/meetings/an08/workshops.php Details TBA.
Undergraduate posters: Contact Connie Young (young@siam.org)
asap.
Student Days: http://www.siam.org/meetings/an08/studentday.php. There will be activities and sessions where students can meet with both peers and professionals in their field, participate in a career fair, attend an information session on hot areas for jobs and research, and network with SIAM Student Chapters from all over the world.
Richard Tapia will participate in the July 10 SIAM Diversity Advisory Committee Meeting at this event.
CRA Conference at Snowbird 2008
July 13-15, 2008
Snowbird, UT
http://www.cra.org/Activities/snowbird/2008/index.html
Students and Technology in Academia, Research, and Service (STARS) Alliance Annual Conference
August 10-13, 2008
Auburn, Alabama
http://www.starsalliance.org/starscelebration2008/index.htm
The EL Alliance can support teams of students interested in becoming part of the STARS Leadership Corps, through which students work on research or service projects for a period of two years.
Deadline: June 1, 2008. Write to clanius@bellsouth.net and ann@redelfs.us for more info.
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
Oct. 1-4, 2008
Keystone Resort, CO
http://gracehopper.org/2008/
Student scholarships: http://gracehopper.org/2008/participate/student-scholarships. The deadline to submit a scholarship application is June 15, 2008. Scholarship notification will take place on or before August 1, 2008.
The EL Alliance will have a Birds-of-a-Feather session at this conference, entitled "A Change for the Better: Improving the Environment at Computing Departments Nationwide"
SACNAS
Oct 9-12, 2008
Salt Lake City, UT
http://www.sacnas.org/confnew/confclient/
Berkeley Edge Conference
October 16-19, 2008, University of California, Berkeley
http://ls.berkeley.edu/diversity/bep/conf
Sponsored by the NSF Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (NSF-AGEP), this conference is designed to encourage underrepresented minority students who are competitively eligible for Berkeley Ph.D. programs in science, math and engineering to apply to UC Berkeley (see Ph.D. programs at http://ls.berkeley.edu/diversity/bep/conf/phd-programs.html). UC Berkeley will provide all travel, lodging, and meals for accepted student participants. Deadline: June 15, 2008.
Society of Professional Hispanic Engineers (SHPE) Conference 2008
November 12-16, 2008
Phoenix, AZ
http://oneshpe.shpe.org/wps/portal/shpe2008/
Student Role Model Award: Highest award given by SHPE to a student member. Presented to an active student member who has provided selfless and outstanding contributions to their chapter and the Hispanic community, while at the same time, maintaining academic excellence. A letter of endorsement from the nominee's chapter board must accompany the nomination.
SHPE/GEM Graduate Award: Deadline: July 1, 2008
Student scholarships: To be posted later.
SC08: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis
November 15-21, 2008
Austin, TX
http://sc08.supercomputing.org/
Student Volunteer Program: Student volunteers will have the opportunity to learn about and discuss the latest high performance computing and networking technologies and meet leading researchers from around the world while contributing to the success of SC08. Students will receive complimentary conference registration, housing (for out-of-town volunteers) and most meals. Applications are due Friday, August 1, 2008. Applications are available at http://submissions.supercomputing.org/
Broadening Participation Grants: To encourage individuals from underrepresented groups to participate. Undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to apply. Applications will open June 1 and are due August 1, 2008.
Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing
April 1-4, 2009
Portland, OR
http://tapiaconference.org/2009/
Student scholarship applications are due September 19, 2008.
Student posters: The posters competition will be organized as an ACM Student Research Competition (SRC). The top posters (1st, 2nd, & 3rd place) in the graduate and undergraduate student categories will advance to the ACM SRC Grand Finals and will be recognized at the prestigious ACM Awards banquet.
SIGCSE
March 4-7, 2009
Chattanooga, TN
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/groups/sigcse09/
NSBE's 35th Annual National Convention
March 25-29, 2009
Las Vegas, NV
http://national.nsbe.org/
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