NSF STUDENT TRAVEL GRANT ANNOUNCEMENT
http://www.percom.org/percom-travel-grant.pdf

The National Science Foundation (NSF) of the U.S.A, and IEEE PerCom 2008 Steering Committee announce that approximately 10 to 15 student travel grants are anticipated in the amount of $1000-$1500 each, sponsored by the NSF, to attend the Sixth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom2008) to be held in Hong Kong, March 17-21, 2008. These grants can be applied toward airfare and hotel expenses to attend PerCom 2008. Recipients are expected to make their own travel arrangements.

SELECTION CRITERIA AND PROCESS:

* The funding will be used for student travel-related support only.

* The recipients of the travel awards must be US-based students only, that is, Ph.D. students attending universities in the US (not necessarily US citizens or permanent residents).

* Special efforts will be made to recruit student participants who are underrepresented minorities (i.e., African-Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, and Native Pacific Islanders) and/or women, coming from diverse institutions.

* Some priority may be given to student authors with accepted papers in PerCom 2008 who may not otherwise be able to attend due to budgetary constraints.

* A committee consisting of Sajal K. Das (Chair), Matt Mutka, and Gergely Zaruba will evaluate the applicants and select the travel grant recipients

* All student travel awardees are required to register for the conference.

TRAVEL GRANT 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 adviser. Applications can be submitted through the EDAS conference management system. The letter from the student should include:

* A brief summary of research interests and accomplishments to date;

* A description of areas reflected in the PerCom program that would impact the student's research;

* Why the conference attendance is important to the student.

* In addition, the student's adviser should send a letter of recommendation to the committee that includes: confirmation that the student is a Ph.D. candidate in good standing; the suitability of the PerCom 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, particularly the adviser, the student, and/or the student's institute is required to pay for the student's conference registration fee.

DEADLINES:

* Application Submission: Friday, February 15, 2008
* Decisions/Notification: Tuesday, February 19, 2008
* Acceptance by the Recipient: Friday, February 22, 2008 (conference registration done by then)
* Conference: March 17-21, 2008

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Prof. Sajal K. Das
Editor-in-Chief, Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/15741192
Director, CReWMaN (http://crewman.uta.edu)
University Distinguished Scholar Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The University of Texas at Arlington
E-mail: das@uta.edu, Tel: (817) 272-7405
http://www.cse.uta.edu/~das