IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2015

Student Travel Awards for IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2015 Conference

About 15 student travel awards will be provided to CCGrid 2015 attendees, pending on US NSF approval. The award will fund the costs of student's conference registration, up to five nights of conference hotel stay, and flight ticket (from U.S Carrier only), with total up to $1666 USD for each student. The students will be informed about the reimbursement process after being selected for the award.

All students who are funded out of the travel grant will be required to present a poster and a short talk about their Ph.D. research.

Student Activities

The student activities planned this year are separated into three categories:

The students would be asked to write up about their experiences and what they learned from these discussions. A short report will be generated at the end of the conference explaining the full extent of these activities, and published on the conference website. A few selected students may be invited to participate in the report generation process.

Applicant Eligibility

Application Materials

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:

In addition, the student's advisor should send a signed letter of endorsement to the committee, including:

All materials for an application will be emailed to palden.lama@utsa.edu.

Important Dates

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Selection Process and Criteria

After distribution to the rest of the committee, each member will rank the applicants. The committee will make final selections via email discussions and a conference call.

The student travel award chair will summarize all applicants’ info and circulate to the rest of the selection committee. Each member will rank the applicants, and the committee members collectively make the final decisions based on the selection criteria.

The following explicit criteria will be used in the selection process: