SenSys 2003 - Call for Applications for Student
Travel Support Sponsored by National Science Foundation
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The 2003 ACM SIGMOBILE International Conference on
Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2003), will be held in Los Angeles,
CA, from November 5--7, 2003.
Our goal is to assist fifteen to twenty (15-20)
United States-based graduate students to attend this meeting. We anticipate that
we will be able to reimburse up to $1000 to each award recipient, to cover
travel, lodging, registration, and meals. All travel support is made possible by
a travel grant from the US National Science Foundation.
Participation in conferences such as SenSys is an
extremely important part of the graduate school experience, providing the
opportunity to interact with more senior researchers and be exposed to leading
edge work in the field. Our goal is to enable the participation of students who
would otherwise be unable to attend SenSys 2003.
Details of the application process are presented
below and can also be found at:
Applications
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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 SenSys 2003
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, that includes:
Confirmation that the student is a Ph.D. candidate
in good standing; The suitability of the SenSys program material to the
student's research area;
Ways this particular student would benefit from
attendance at the conference; and
The strengths and potential contributions
of the student.
Deadlines and Selection Committee
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Applications for the travel award should be sent
electronically to Dr. Raghupathy Sivakumar (siva@ece.gatech.edu) to be received by
midnight of Monday, August 25th, 2003. The recipients of the travel awards will
be decided by a committee consisting of Dr. Raghupathy Sivakumar (Georgia
Institute of Technology), Dr. Victor Bahl (Microsoft Research and Chair of
SIGMOBILE), Dr. Bhaskar Krishnamachari (University of Southern California), and
Dr. Erdal
Cayirci (Turkish War Center and Istanbul Technical University).
The awards will be announced by Friday, Monday, September 15th, 2003. Recipients
will be required to accept the award by Monday September 22nd, 2003, so that
alternates can be notified in the event that a recipient
declines.