US-India Program for Exploratory Experiences for Researchers and Students (PEERS)

美印研究人员和学生(同行)探索性体验计划这项建议的目标是组织一次研讨会，重点是如何促进印度和美国科学家在分布式系统和网络领域的研究和合作，并留住和鼓励学生攻读计算机科学的高级学位。研讨会是与2009年1月3日至6日在印度海得拉巴举行的ICDCN 2009(分布式计算和网络国际会议)联合举办的。一个由8至10名美国和印度科学家组成的小组将被邀请在两天内举行会议，制定一套有效合作的建议，并通过与ICDCN其他参与者的互动来完善这些建议。将生成一份关于这些建议的全面报告，并提交给国家科学基金会。研讨会结束后，计划在NSF国际科学与工程办公室(OISE)的帮助下开展活动，制定具体的合作方案。美国和印度在计算机科学和工程学科学生的兴趣方面都面临着独特的挑战。这次研讨会旨在通过合作计划和利用每个国家的独特优势来解决其中的一些问题，以便双方都能受益并相互学习。这一合作预计将带来持续的活动，来自印度和美国的高级和初级研究人员以及计算机科学研究生将从互访、学生共同建议和其他合作项目中受益。由此产生的协同效应将帮助我们招募和留住更好的计算机科学高级学位学生，并有助于提高妇女和少数族裔的参与度。

US-India Program for Exploratory Experiences forResearchers and Students (PEERS)The objective of this proposal is to organize a workshop focusing on ways to foster research and collaboration between Indian and US scientists in the area of distributed systems and networks, and to retain and encourage students to pursue advanced degrees in computer science. The workshop is being organized in conjunction with ICDCN 2009 (International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking) at Hyderabad, India during January 3-6, 2009. A panel of 8-10 US and Indian scientists are to be invited to meet over two days and develop a set of recommendations for effective collaboration and refine them via interactions with other ICDCN participants. A comprehensive report on the recommendations will be generated and submitted to NSF. The workshop is planned to be followed up with activities to develop concrete collaboration proposals with the help of NSF Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE).Both US and India are facing unique challenges in terms of interest of students in Computer Science and engineering discipline. This workshop intends to address some of these via collaborative programs and by exploiting the unique strengths of each country so that both can benefit and learn from each other. The collaboration is expected to lead to sustained activities where senior and junior researchers and graduate students in Computer Science from both India and US will benefit from exchange visits, student co-advising and other collaborative programs. The resulting synergy will help us recruit and retain better students in our advanced degree in computer science and help improve the participation of women and minorities.