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IEEE TCSC Student Travel Grant for eScience 2007

The IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) is pleased to offer grants for students attending the 3rd International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing (eScience 2007) to be held in Bangalore, India in December 2007. The grants, totalling USD 5000, will be used for the partial reimbursement of student expenses, with up to $1000 available for each selected student.

Eligibility requirements:

  • Each student must be a student member of the IEEE Computer Society, and a member of TCSC. A student who is not already a member may join the IEEE Computer Society by clicking on “ Join ” at http://computer.org/ and may join TCSC at http://ieeetcsc.org/join.html
  • Each student must create publicly available Web pages (in at least English, and possibly additional languages, if desired) describing their research, current work, progress, links to similar work, and the benefits of their research to the wider academic and commercial communities. The Web pages should written in valid XHTML 1.1. 

Preference will be given to students who will be presenting a paper (as first author) at the meeting. A committee consisting of Rajkumar Buyya (University of Melbourne), Manish Parashar (Rutgers: New Jersey State University), Kenneth Chiu (State University of New York - Binghamton), and Srikumar Venugopal (University of Melbourne) will select the recipients based on the evaluation of the application material.

Deadline: 9th November 2007

Announcement of Recipients: 15th November 2006

Apply via email to < kchiu@cs.binghamton.edu > by sending the following information.

  1. A letter from the student describing his/her academic standing and interests, his/her expected graduation date and degree, advisor's name, and, if available, a link to the student's web page. In a statement of 500 words or less, the student should indicate why attending the meeting would be useful for his/her research or career.
  2. A short vita that includes the student's research interests, projects, and papers published.
  3. A letter of recommendation from the student's advisor.
  4. The student's IEEE Computer Society membership number. (A student who has joined the IEEE Computer Society recently and does not yet have a membership number may state this, and should indicate the date she or he joined.)
  5. If applicable, the title(s) of the paper(s) to be presented (co-authored) by the student at the meeting.
  6. Indicate whether a similar student grant has been received for any past TCSC conference
  7. A link to the Web pages that describe their research.

 

Notes: All these documents must be sent together in a single email. The email subject must include the words TCSC eScience 2007 Student Travel Grant .