Subject: [Maprg] CoNEXT 2019 Student Travel Grant - Call for Applications

From: Luigi Iannone <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 10:04:17 +0200

Dear Colleagues,
With support from the U.S. National Science Foundation and SIGCOMM, The CoNEXT 2019 Organizing Committee is excited to announce the call for applications for Student Travel Grants. 

Kindly forward this opportunity to students in your groups that are eligible to apply. Application guidelines here below.

Flavio Esposito, Xiaowei Yang, and Jiao Zhang
CoNEXT '19 Student Travel Grants Co-Chairs

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Application Process and Notification
Requests for travel support should be submitted on MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "urldefense.com" claiming to be https://conext19travel.hotcrp.com/ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://conext19travel.hotcrp.com/__;!euKmGKuCglU!YavMsE69Hsu9UC-q8UL2FsyyLSo3EHVVwnbaeInamhgcATR01uBNjkCOHErRPK0KW71k5A$> by October 24, 2019 11:59pm EDT. 
Notification of acceptance will be given on October 26. For further information, please contact the Travel Grant Chairs directly.
 
The student should submit a PDF document containing the following information:

A resume
A cover letter providing:
A short statement indicating how the student would benefit from attending ACM CoNEXT 2019.
A brief summary of research interests and accomplishments.
An indication of whether the student has submitted an abstract to or has an accepted paper in the ACM CoNEXT 2019 Student Workshop.
Indication of gender and whether the applicant belongs to an under-represented minority.
Estimated travel costs to the conference.
A supporting letter from the advisor stating
the suitability of the CoNEXT program material to the student's research area;
how CoNEXT will benefit the student’s research progress;
the strengths and potential contributions of the student;
the capability or (lack thereof) of the advisor to pay for the partial expenses.