Student Travel Grants to Attend the Second Networking Networking Women (N2Women) Workshop

网络女性(N2Women)在网络和通信研究社区促进女性之间的联系，在这些社区中，女性的代表性不足。该奖项支持美国院校的学生参加与IEEE Infocom 2012共同举办的第二届N2Women研讨会，即第31届计算机通信国际年会。Infocom将于2012年3月25日至30日在佛罗里达州奥兰多举行。N2Women研讨会安排在主会议开始的前一天(2012年3月26日星期一)，使与会者能够建立联系，如果他们也参加会议，这种联系可以得到加强。将优先考虑将从参加研讨会中受益的学生，但由于无法获得旅费，不太可能参加研讨会。我们鼓励参加研讨会的学生留下来参加INFOCOM。智力价值：这一提议的智力价值包括学生本身将从N2妇女研讨会中获得并对其做出的贡献；可能对他们未来的研究产生积极影响的信息和联系，以及允许他们参加Infocom 2012的共同地点，这是网络和通信领域的一次重要会议。接触到N2女性研讨会的技术内容(如果他们参加了，也接触到Infocom 2012)，预计将激励学生解决各自领域具有挑战性的研究问题，并帮助他们实现长期研究目标。更广泛的影响：这项建议的更广泛影响是，根据这项资助，能够参加N2女性研讨会的未被充分代表的研究生的专业发展。这笔资助为这些研究生提供了参加主旨演讲者的高水平技术演示的机会，在海报会议上接触到最先进的研究，参与与领先研究人员的指导会议，并与其他研究生建立网络。目标是对学生产生长期的积极影响？事业。

Networking Networking Women (N2Women) fosters connections among women in networking and communications research community in which women are underrepresented. This award supports students from U.S. institutions to attend the Second N2Women Workshop co-located with IEEE INFOCOM 2012, the 31st Annual International Conference on Computer Communications. INFOCOM will be held March 25-30, 2012 in Orlando, Florida. The N2Women workshop is scheduled on the day before the main conference begins (Monday, March 26th, 2012), allowing the attendees to form connections that can then be strengthened if they also attend the conference. Priority is given to students who will benefit from attending the workshop, but are unlikely to attend due to the unavailability of travel funding. Students attending the workshop are encouraged to stay and attend INFOCOM.Intellectual Merit:The intellectual merit of this proposal includes contributions that the student participants themselves will gain from and make to the N2Women Workshop; the information and connections that could positively impact their future research, and the co-location that allows them to participate in INFOCOM 2012, a premier conference in networking and communications. The exposure to the technical content of the N2Women Workshop (and to INFOCOM 2012 if they attend) is expected to inspire students to address challenging research problems in their field and to help them meet their long-term research goals.Broader Impacts:The broader impact of this proposal is the professional development of the under-represented graduate students that under this grant are able to attend the N2Women Workshop. The grant provides these graduate students the opportunity to attend high-caliber technical presentations from keynote speakers, be exposed to state-of-the-art research in a poster session, participate in mentoring sessions with leading researchers, and network with fellow graduate students. The goal is to make long-term positive impacts on the students? careers.