Note that the deadline for early registration is August 3rd (this Friday).

Call for Participation ACM SIGCOMM 2001 Conference

August 27 - August 31, 2001 University of California, San Diego, CA USA http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2001

Deadlines:

Proposals for student travel grant: June 15, 2001 Proposals for student poster session: June 17, 2001 Advance registration ends: August 3, 2001 Hotel registration deadline: July 23, 2001

ACM SIGCOMM 2001 is the annual conference of the Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM), a single-track, highly selective conference with a technical program of 23 papers, tutorials by noted instructors on the two days prior, and a panel discussion.

Early registration for SIGCOMM 2001 will soon be available. Registration details, as well as information on student travel grants and requests for proposals for the work-in-progress poster session are available at the SIGCOMM website above.

Social Events

The reception will be at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps. The Aquarium is situated on a hilltop site that provides a spectacular view on the Scripps Institution of Oceanography campus, northern La Jolla, and the Pacific Ocean. Conference attendees will have full access to the aquarium exhibits during the reception. The reception is included in registration fee for attendees and their guests. No reservations necessary.

The SIGCOMM 2001 Banquet will be held in the Main Ballroom of the Hotel Del Coronado, situated on picturesque Coronado Island. Over 112 years old, it is a National Historic Landmark renowned for its magnificent architecture and legendary guests. The banquet is included in the registration fee for attendees. There will be a $75 charge for each guest.

SIGCOMM Award

The SIGCOMM Award is given annually to a person whose career and technical achievements demonstrate a long-term commitment to the field of data communications. ACM SIGCOMM is pleased to announce that the 2001 SIGCOMM Award is being given to Van Jacobson of Packet Design, Inc. Van Jacobson will receive the award and give the conference keynote address in the opening session on Wednesday.

Tutorials

SIGCOMM 2001 begins with two days of full- and half-day tutorials covering single topics in detail at both the introductory and advanced level. Tutorials offered this year are:

- Wireless Data Phil Karn, Qualcomm, Inc. - Traffic Measurement for IP Operations Matt Grossglauser and Jennifer Rexford, AT&T - Interdomain Routing and BGP Timothy G. Griffin, AT&T - Equilibrium and Dynamics of TCP Prof. Steven H. Low, California Inst. of Technology - Algorithms for Networks: Some Techniques for Design and Analysis Ashish Goel, University of Southern California Nick McKeown and Balaji Prabhakar, Stanford University

Outrageous Opinions Session

The Outrageous Opinions Session provides an opportunity for sharing entertaining, provocative, and otherwise enriching ideas and suggestions in their early stages. The session will be held Thursday evening.

Poster Session - Work in Progress

The Poster Session is aimed at showcasing the "work-in-progress" of students attending the conference. Poster proposals should be sent by email to Hari Balakrishnan (hari@lcs.mit.edu) by June 17 (no extensions). Please see the conference website for details regarding the submission format.

Student Travel Awards

The purpose of the student travel program is to encourage graduate student participation at the conference by partially or fully funding the travel costs of students who would otherwise be unable to attend. SIGCOMM 2001 thanks Cisco and SIGCOMM for funding the program this year. See the website for eligibility criteria and application procedures.

General Co-Chairs Rene Cruz, UC San Diego, USA (cruz@ece.ucsd.edu) George Varghese, UC San Diego, USA (varghese@ece.ucsd.edu) Program Co-Chairs Roch Guerin, U. Pennsylvania, USA (guerin@ee.upenn.edu) Derek McAuley, Marconi Research Center, UK (derek.mcauley@marconi.com) Publicity Chair Dilip Kandlur, IBM TJ Watson Research Ctr, USA (kandlur@us.ibm.com) Tutorials Chair Chuck Kalmanek, AT&T Research, USA (crk@research.att.com) Local Arrangements Co-Chairs Geoff Voelker, UC San Diego, USA (voelker@cs.ucsd.edu) Finance Chair Joe Touch, UCS/ISI, USA (touch@isi.edu) Publication Chair Ramesh Govindan, USC/ISI, USA (govindan@isi.edu) Student Travel Award Chair Christos Papadopoulos, U. Southern California (christos@isi.edu) Student Poster Chair Hari Balakrishnan, MIT, USA (hari@lcs.mit.edu)

Support from Cisco, IBM, Deloitte and Touche, PMC-Sierra, Marconi, Procket Networks, Agilent Technologies, Microsoft Research, and USC/ISI is gratefully acknowledged.