Student & Minority Faculty Travel Grant Program to Attend International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) 2009

第17届IEEE国际网络协议会议(ICNP)及相关活动，包括网络协议安全研讨会，将于2009年10月13日至16日在美国新泽西州普林斯顿举行。ICNP传统上是一个为期3天的单轨会议，由大约30份论文报告组成。这次会议通常吸引了大约120-125名国际与会者。ICNP在引文影响方面排名很高。这种高影响是在会议上提交的始终如一的高质量研究的结果。这项旅行补助金支持美国各机构的研究生，以及属于或服务于代表性不足的计算机科学研究人员群体的初级教职员工。旅行补助金计划有两个组成部分：(1)面向更广泛的研究生群体；(2)面向少数族裔教职员工或为少数族裔学生服务的教职员工(例如，EPSCoR机构)。总共将支持向研究生和教职员工颁发约10个奖项。这笔赠款还支持今年的一个博士论坛。博士论坛为博士生提供了一个环境，让他们与同行和来自学术界和产业界的经验丰富的研究人员展示和讨论他们的论文研究。该奖项的目的是扩大ICNP的受众，并因此提高与会者之间的互动水平，以及新合作、新调查和更高质量研究的潜力。出席会议是研究人员生活中至关重要的一部分。通过为学生和教职员工创造新的机会--特别是那些来自代表性不足群体的学生和教职员工--参加高质量的会议，该项目将在几个方面使研究社区受益。学生和教职员工本身受益于在有利的环境中与许多其他研究人员见面和互动的机会，以及看到可能与他们所从事的工作相关的研究报告，或者可能激励他们尝试新方向的研究成果。研究界受益于正在筹备中的学生的提高，以及新的研究视角的引入。通过讨论和其他互动，所有与会者都受益于与会者的多样性增加。

The 17th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) and associated events, including a workshop on network protocol security, will be held October 13-16, 2009, in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. ICNP has traditionally been a single-track 3-day meeting of around 30 paper presentations. The conference has typically attracted an attendance of about 120-125 international participants. ICNP ranks high in citation impact. The high impact is a consequence of the consistently high-quality research presented at the conference. This travel grant supports graduate students attending institutions in the United States as well as junior faculty belonging to or serving under-represented groups of computer science researchers. The travel grant program has two components: (1) Outreach to a wider graduate student population; and (2) Outreach to minority faculty or faculty serving minority students (e.g., EPSCOR institutions). A total of about ten awards to graduate students and faculty members will be supported. This grant also supports a Ph.D. forum this year. The PhD forum provides an environment for doctoral students to present and discuss their dissertation research with their peers and experienced researchers from academia and industry. The objective of the award is to widen the audience attending ICNP and, as a result, raise the level of interactions between attendees, and the potential for new collaboration, new investigations, and higher quality research.Broader Impacts. Conference attendance is a crucial part of the life of a researcher. By creating new opportunities for students and faculty-especially those from under represented groups-to attend a high-quality conference, this project will benefit the research community in several ways. The students and faculty 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. All attendees benefit from increased diversity of participants attending the conference, through discussions and other interactions.