ICNP 2005 Travel Awards in Support of Graduate Students, Minority, and Minority-Serving Faculty

由IEEE计算机协会主办的第13届IEEE网络协议国际会议（及相关活动，包括一个研讨会和三个教程）将于2005年11月6日至11月9日在美国马萨诸塞州的波士顿举行。国家科学基金会的支助是代表在美国各机构就读的研究生以及代表性不足的群体和少数群体服务机构的教员提供的。所要求的25，000美元的支持是为大约20个奖项的研究生（每人750美元）用于注册，旅行和住宿，以及为少数民族学生服务的大学的少数民族教师或教师提供大约10个奖项（每人1 000美元），用于登记、旅费和住宿。该奖项将有助于扩大参加首次网络会议-网络协议国际会议-的受众，从而提高互动水平和新合作、新调查和更高质量研究的潜力。更广泛的影响：通过支持研究生、少数民族教职员工和少数民族服务机构的教职员工参加ICNP 2005，这项提案将增加会议研究成果向更多和更多样化的受众的传播，否则这些受众可能无法参加。在这样做的过程中，这项建议将有助于加强研究界的力量和包容性。通过优先向妇女和少数民族学生提供助学金，并针对少数民族教职员工和少数民族服务机构的教职员工，我们希望扩大这些代表性不足的群体的参与。此外，通过向广泛的学院和大学做广告，来自更多样化机构的与会者应该能够参加会议并从中受益。

Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, the 13th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (and associated events, including a workshop and three tutorials) will be held from November 6 to November 9th, 2005, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Support from the National Science Foundation is awarded on behalf of graduate students attending institutions in the United States as well as faculty members from underrepresented groups and minority-serving institutions. The requested $25,000 support is for approximately twenty awards to graduate students (at $750 each) towards registration, travel, and accommodations and for approximately ten awards for minority faculty or faculty from universities serving minority students (at $1,000 each) towards registration, travel, and accommodations.Intellectual Merit: This award will serve to widen the audience attending a premiere networking conference-the International Conference on Network Protocols-and as such raising the level of interaction and the potential for new collaboration, new investigations, and higher quality research.Broader Impact: By supporting graduate students, minority faculty members, and faculty from minority-serving institutions to attend ICNP 2005, this proposal will increase the dissemination of the conference's research results to a larger and a more diverse audience, which might not otherwise be able to attend. In doing so, this proposal will contribute to the strength and inclusiveness of the research community. By giving preference in grant awards to women and minority students, and by targeting minority faculty members and those from minority-serving institutions, we hope to widen the participation among these underrepresented groups. Furthermore, by advertising to a wide range of colleges and universities, participants from a more diverse set of institutions should be able to attend and benefit from the conference.