US-India Program for Exploratory Experiences for Researchers and Students (PEERS)

美印研究人员和学生探索性经验项目（PEERS）本提案的目的是组织一个研讨会，重点讨论如何促进印度和美国科学家在分布式系统和网络领域的研究和合作，并鼓励和保留学生攻读计算机科学的高级学位。该研讨会将与2009年1月3日至6日在印度海德拉巴举行的ICDCN 2009（分布式计算和网络国际会议）一起组织。一个由8-10名美国和印度科学家组成的小组将被邀请举行为期两天的会议，制定一套有效合作的建议，并通过与其他ICDCN参与者的互动来完善这些建议。将生成一份关于建议的综合报告并提交给美国国家科学基金会。在国家科学基金会国际科学与工程办公室（OISE）的帮助下，计划在研讨会之后开展活动，制定具体的合作建议。在学生对计算机科学与工程学科的兴趣方面，美国和印度都面临着独特的挑战。本次研讨会打算通过合作方案和利用两国的独特优势来解决其中一些问题，以便双方都能受益并相互学习。此次合作预计将带来持续的活动，来自印度和美国的计算机科学高级和初级研究人员和研究生将从互访、学生共同指导和其他合作项目中受益。由此产生的协同作用将有助于我们招收和留住更好的学生攻读我们的计算机科学高级学位，并有助于提高妇女和少数民族的参与度。

US-India Program for Exploratory Experiences forResearchers and Students (PEERS)The objective of this proposal is to organize a workshop focusing on ways to foster research and collaboration between Indian and US scientists in the area of distributed systems and networks, and to retain and encourage students to pursue advanced degrees in computer science. The workshop is being organized in conjunction with ICDCN 2009 (International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking) at Hyderabad, India during January 3-6, 2009. A panel of 8-10 US and Indian scientists are to be invited to meet over two days and develop a set of recommendations for effective collaboration and refine them via interactions with other ICDCN participants. A comprehensive report on the recommendations will be generated and submitted to NSF. The workshop is planned to be followed up with activities to develop concrete collaboration proposals with the help of NSF Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE).Both US and India are facing unique challenges in terms of interest of students in Computer Science and engineering discipline. This workshop intends to address some of these via collaborative programs and by exploiting the unique strengths of each country so that both can benefit and learn from each other. The collaboration is expected to lead to sustained activities where senior and junior researchers and graduate students in Computer Science from both India and US will benefit from exchange visits, student co-advising and other collaborative programs. The resulting synergy will help us recruit and retain better students in our advanced degree in computer science and help improve the participation of women and minorities.