Collaborative Research: Student Outreach Support Activities at IEEE-CS TCPP Sponsoed Conferences

STEM领域的研究生培训的一个重要方面是参加并在重要的科学会议上展示他们的工作。然而，在没有导师或其他导师陪同的情况下参加技术会议的学生经常感到孤立，并且不能完全从经验中获益，因为许多人可能不知道如何有效地驾驭技术会议或与其他研究人员建立网络。以学生为中心的项目与会议很好地结合在一起，在为年轻与会者提供更好地利用他们参与这些会议的工具方面发挥着至关重要的作用。学生项目已经出现在几个主要会议上，但还远未被广泛采用。特别是由IEEE计算机学会并行处理技术委员会（TCPP）主办的旗舰研究会议——国际并行与分布式处理研讨会（IPDPS），多年来一直有举办博士论坛的传统。这个项目最初只是一个简单的海报展示，最近已经发展成为一个全面的培训研讨会，包括职业规划和写作和演讲技巧的实践教程。此外，IPDPS博士论坛为学生交流提供了有效的机会。该项目寻求将类似的学生项目植入到tcpp赞助的IPDPS姊妹会议中，这些会议属于并行和分布式处理的广泛范围，例如并行架构和编译技术（PACT）和高性能计算（HiPC）。此外，该项目旨在进一步改善IPDPS目前的学生指导计划，从而为高性能计算学科中更高效的劳动力发展做出贡献。该提案将支持学生计划和学生出席IPDPS和IEEE-CS TCPP赞助的其他姐妹会议。我们的目标是通过确保更专业的会议也得到足够的学生支持来覆盖整个并行和分布式处理范围。将要求受益会议至少举办一次介绍性会议，使学生能够与同侪和导师建立联系。此外，会议组织者将获得IPDPS博士论坛的后勤计划，并将被鼓励模仿其一些活动，包括学生驱动的海报会议。通过这种方式，学生不仅可以接触到会议，还可以获得更充实和完整的体验。为了符合资格，申请人必须在会议期间在美国机构注册学位课程。申请将包括预算请求和理由，性别和少数民族地位，公民身份，以及可选的纸质接受通知和所有审查。这个项目将特别针对那些没有经济支持通常无法参加这些会议的学生，包括本科生、第一年的研究生和第一次参加会议的学生。为了增加与会者的多样性，该项目将强烈征求女性和其他少数群体的参与。

A crucial training aspect of graduate students in STEM fields consists of attending and presenting their work at premier scientific conferences. However, students attending technical meetings unaccompanied by their advisors or other mentors often feel isolated and do not fully gain from the experience because many may not know how to effectively navigate a technical conference or network with other researchers. Student-centric programs which are well-integrated with the conferences play a crucial role in providing younger attendees with the tools to take better advantage of their participation at these conferences. Student programs have emerged at several leading conferences, but are still far from being widely adopted. In particular, the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), the flagship research conference sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP), has a tradition of hosting a PhD forum for many years. This program started as a simple poster presentation and has recently evolved into a comprehensive training workshop that includes sessions on career planning and hands-on tutorials on writing and presentation skills. Moreover, the IPDPS PhD forum provides effective opportunities for student networking. This project seeks to seed similar student programs into the TCPP-sponsored sister conferences of IPDPS that fall under the broad umbrella of parallel and distributed processing, such as Parallel Architecture and Compilation Techniques (PACT) and High Performance Computing (HiPC). In addition, the project seeks to further improve the current student mentorship programs at IPDPS, thereby contributing toward more productive workforce development in the high performance computing disciplines. This proposal will support student programs and student attendance at IPDPS and other sister conferences sponsored by IEEE-CS TCPP. The goal is to cover the whole parallel and distributed processing spectrum by making sure that more specialized conferences also get adequate student support. The beneficiary conferences will be required to host, at the very minimum, an introductory session where students will be enabled to network with peers and mentors. Additionally, conference organizers will be provided with the logistic plan of the PhD Forum at IPDPS and will be encouraged to emulate some of its activities including a student-driven poster session. In this way, students will not only have access to the conference but will also get a more fulfilling and integral experience. To be eligible, the applicant must be enrolled in a degree program at a US-based institution at the time of the conference. The application will include a budget request and justification, gender and minority status, citizenship, and optionally, paper acceptance notice and all the reviews. This project will especially target students that typically would not be able to attend these conferences without financial support, including undergraduate students, graduate students in their first year, and students attending their first conference. In order to increase the diversity of attendees, the project will strongly solicit participation of female and other minority groups.