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

信息理论国际研讨会（ISIT）是全球首屈一指的年度信息理论会议，因此是该学科研究生展示其工作的宝贵论坛，从其他研究人员那里获得类似或相关主题的反馈，并在该学科内结识专业人士。该奖项提供国际旅行资金，奖励给在今年的ISIT接受论文的学生，否则他们将没有足够的旅行资金参加研讨会。由于信息理论是通信和信息基础集群的核心组成部分，因此确保研究生参加本次研讨会的努力与NSF促进下一代科学家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.