CIF: Student Travel Support for the 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory

信息理论国际研讨会(ISIT)是全球主要的信息理论年度会议，因此是该学科的研究生展示他们的工作，接受其他从事类似或相关主题的研究人员的反馈，并在该学科内结识专业人士的宝贵论坛。这一奖项提供国际旅行资金，奖励那些在今年的国际学术研讨会上有一篇论文被接受，否则将没有足够的旅行资金来参加研讨会的学生。由于信息理论是通信和信息基础集群的核心组成部分，确保研究生参加这次研讨会的努力与NSF促进下一代科学家的教育和研究的目标是一致的。

The International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) is the premier annual information theory conference worldwide, and thus a valuable forum for graduate students in this discipline to present their work, receive feedback from other researchers working on similar or related topics, and to make professional acquaintances within the discipline. This award provides international travel funds to be awarded to students who have a paper accepted at this year's ISIT and who otherwise would not have sufficient travel funds to attend the symposium. As information theory is a core component of the Communications and Information Foundations cluster, the efforts to ensure participation of graduate students in this symposium are consistent with NSF's goal of promoting education and research of the next generation of scientists.