Student Travel Support for CoNEXT 2007 Conference

第三届新兴网络实验与技术国际会议(CONEXT)将于2007年12月10日至13日在纽约哥伦比亚大学校园举行。Conext 2007由ACM SIGCOMM赞助，ACM SIGCOMM是ACM的数据通信特别兴趣小组。这一奖项将帮助大约12名美国研究生参加这次会议。参加CONEXT这样的会议是研究生院经历中极其重要的一部分，为学生提供了与更多资深研究人员互动的机会，并接触到该领域的前沿研究。还将与Conext一起组织一次特别的学生讲习班，特别着眼于：(I)提供更多这样的机会，(Ii)让学生对他们的工作获得有针对性的反馈，(Iii)告知他们开展有效研究的良好战略，以及(Iv)教育他们在获得学位后的不同职业道路。这项提案中所要求的支持将使学生能够参加这个研讨会和参加2007年会议，否则他们将无法做到这两点。旅行补助金主席致力于鼓励妇女和任职人数不足的少数群体参加。智力优势：该项目提议为研究生参加2007年国际互联网大会及相关讲习班提供旅行支助，其中包括学生讲习班和关于未来互联网设计的讲习班。这个丰富的项目将使他们接触到新的想法，并允许与其他研究人员互动。特别是，学生工作坊旨在为学生提供一个机会来展示他们目前的工作，获得关于他们工作和口头陈述的明确的口头和书面反馈，并让他们接触到重要的问题，例如应该如何撰写技术论文以改善结果的传播，以及应该如何判断研究问题的相关性和潜在的影响。广泛的影响：该项目通过参加计算机网络和通信领域的主要技术会议，将学生的研究和教育整合在一起。学生将有机会在主要会议和相关研讨会上观看高质量的演讲，并与该领域的资深研究人员互动。建议的学生参与将对学生的兴趣和研究质量产生积极影响。将鼓励妇女和其他少数群体参与。在提交给会议的论文中，美国是作者数量最多的国家(约占三分之一)。然而，提交的论文的其余作者分布在其他28个国家。这种多样性也从大会技术方案委员会的组成中可见一斑。因此，这一真正具有国际气息的Conext 2007为学生提供了一个极大的机会来扩大他们的想法、研究方法和技术视角的广度。

The 3rd International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT) will be held December 10-13, 2007 at the Columbia University campus in New York. CoNEXT 2007 is sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM, which is ACM's Special Interest Group on Data Communications. This award will assist approximately 12 United States-based graduate students in attending this conference. Participation in conferences such as CoNEXT is an extremely important part of the graduate school experience, providing students an opportunity to interact with more senior researchers and to be exposed to leading edge research in the field. There is also a special student workshop that will be organized with CoNEXT that is especially oriented to: (i) further such opportunities, (ii) allow students to get targeted feedback on their work, (iii) inform them about good strategies for conducting effective research, and (iv) educate them about different career paths past their degrees. The support requested in this proposal will enable students to participate in this workshop and to attend the CoNEXT 2007 conference, who would be other-wise unable to do either. The travel grant chairs are committed to encouraging the participation of women and under-represented minorities.Intellectual Merit: This project proposes to provide travel support for graduate students to attend CoNEXT 2007 and the associated workshops, which includes the student workshop and a workshop on future Internet design. This rich program will expose them to new ideas and allow for interaction with other researchers. In particular, the student workshop is geared to provide students an opportunity to present their current work, to receive explicit verbal as well as documented feedback on their work and their oral presentations, and to expose them to important issues such as how technical papers should be written to improve dissemination of results and how research problems should be judged for relevance and potential for impact.Broader Impact: This project integrates research and education of students through exposure to a premier technical meeting in computer networks and communications. Students will have the opportunity to observe high-quality presentations and interact with senior researchers in the field both in the main conference and the associated workshops. The proposed student participation will have a positive impact on students' interest and the quality of their research. Women and other minorities will be encouraged to participate. Among the papers submitted to the conference, the US has the single largest number of authors (approximately one-third). However, the remaining authors of submitted papers span 28 other countries. This diversity is also in evidence from the composition of the technical program committee of the conference. This truly international flavor of CoNEXT 2007, therefore, presents a tremendous opportunity to students to increase their breadth of ideas, research approaches, and technical perspectives.