IEEE TCSC Student Scholarship
SC06: International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis
Tampa, FL, November 11th-17th, 2006

  The IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC http://ieeetcsc.org/) has made $6000 available for the partial reimbursement of travel expenses for students attending SC06: International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, being held in Tampa, Florida in November 2006. The travel assistance funds will be used for the reimbursement of travel expenses up to $500 for North American students, and up to $1000 for other students.

 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.

• Postdocs who completed their Ph.D. in the last one year are also eligible to apply for this scholarship.

Preference will be given to students/postdocs who will be presenting a paper (as first author) at the meeting. A committee will select the recipients based on the evaluation of the application material.

Deadline: 6^th November, 2006

Apply via email to <mgovinda at cs dot binghamton dot edu> by sending the following information.

• 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.
• A short vita that includes the student's research interests, projects, and papers published.
• A letter of recommendation from the student's advisor.
• 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.)
• If applicable, the title(s) of the paper(s) to be presented (co-authored) by the student at the meeting.
• 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 “SC06 Student Travel Assistance”.

Award Winners

The list of travel scholarship award winners has been posted here. Congratulations! to the winners.

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