Student Travel Support for the 21st IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP)

这笔差旅补助金的目标是扩大参加顶级网络协议会议 IEEE 国际网络协议会议 (ICNP) 的受众，从而提高互动水平以及新合作、新调查和更高质量研究的潜力。代表在美国院校就读的研究生请求国家科学基金会的支持。智力优势：通过支持研究生参加 ICNP 2013，这笔赠款将增加会议研究成果向更多、更多样化的受众的传播，否则这些受众将无法参加。这样做，该提案将有助于增强研究界的力量和包容性，并将导致 ICNP 的长期健康和活力。此外，向女性和代表性不足的学生提供补助金的优惠有望增加这些群体的参与度。通过向广泛的学院和大学做广告，来自更多不同机构的参与者应该能够参加会议并从会议中受益。广泛且多样化的人群是研究界和学科健康发展的关键。更广泛的影响：参加会议是研究人员生活的重要组成部分。通过为学生，特别是那些来自代表性不足群体的学生创造参加高质量会议的新机会，该项目将从多个方面使研究界受益。学生们自己受益于有机会在有利的环境中与许多其他研究人员会面和互动，并看到可能与他们正在从事的工作相关或可能激励他们尝试新方向的研究成果。研究界受益于学生的进步和新的研究人员观点的引入。此外，每个人都受益于参加会议的参与者多样性的增加。

The goal of this travel grant is to broaden the audience attending the premier network protocol conference, the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), and as a result, raise the level of interaction and the potential for new collaborations, new investigations, and higher quality research. Support from the National Science Foundation is requested on behalf of graduate students attending institutions in the United States. Intellectual Merit: By supporting graduate students to attend ICNP 2013, this grant will increase the dissemination of the conference research results to a larger and a more diverse audience, which otherwise would not have been able to attend. In so doing, this proposal will contribute to the strength and inclusiveness of the research community, and will lead to the long-term health and vitalization of ICNP. In addition, preference in grant awards to women and under-represented students will hopefully increase the participation among these groups. By advertising to a wide range of colleges and universities, participants from a more diverse set of institutions should be able to attend and benefit from the conference. A broad, as well as diverse population is key to the health of the research community and the discipline. Broader Impacts: Conference attendance is a crucial part of the life of a researcher. By creating new opportunities for students, especially those from under-represented groups to attend a high-quality conference, this project will benefit the research community in several ways. The students themselves benefit from the opportunity to meet and interact with many other researchers in a favorable setting, and from seeing research presented that may be related to what they are working on, or may inspire them to try a new direction. The research community benefits from the improvement of the students in the pipeline, and the introduction of new researcher perspectives. Additionally, everybody benefits from increased diversity of participants attending the conference.