NSF Student Travel Grant for 2019 ACM International Middleware Conference (Middleware)

该项目将为美国研究生参加Middleware 2019大会及其相关研讨会、教程和博士研讨会提供旅行支持。这个项目将使学生接触到分布式系统和中间件新兴领域的新想法，并允许他们与其他学生和研究人员互动，从而拓宽他们的智力视野。中间件将学术界和工业界的参与者聚集在一起，这将帮助学生了解当今工业界面临的职业机会和现实挑战。Middleware大会对学生特别有利，不仅因为它有高质量的技术内容，还因为它致力于通过长期运行的博士研讨会进行指导，以及学术和工业研究的强大整合。由于机票、酒店和会议注册的成本，参加Middleware 2019的费用将超出一般研究生的承受能力。虽然许多学生可以从他们的导师那里获得旅费，但情况并不总是如此，或者它可能无法支付全部费用。旅行补助金对于扩大参加会议的范围尤其重要，因为它允许学生参加会议，而不只是第一作者。这让更多的学生有机会看到第一手的研究报告，并与潜在的导师和雇主互动。该项目将部分资助19名主要是研究生，在某些情况下还将资助美国院校的本科生。将尽一切努力鼓励妇女和代表性不足的群体参加。旅费的支付将由范德比尔特大学管理。每一位学生旅行津贴获得者将被要求在会议结束后提交一份报告，详细说明他们的经历以及他们的旅行费用，然后才能将资金发放给该奖项。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project will provide travel support for US-based graduate students to attend the Middleware 2019 conference and its associated workshops, tutorials and its Doctoral Symposium. This program will expose students to new ideas in emerging areas of distributed systems and middleware and allow them to interact with other students and researchers thereby broadening their intellectual horizons. Middleware brings together participants from both academia and industry, which will help students learn about both career opportunities and realistic challenges faced by industry today. The Middleware conference is particularly beneficial for students to attend not only because of its high-quality technical content, but its commitment to mentoring through a long running doctoral symposium and its strong integration of academic and industrial research. Attending Middleware 2019 will incur an expense beyond the means of typical graduate students due to the cost of airfare, hotels, and conference registration. While many students can receive travel funds from their advisors, this is not always the case, or it may not cover the entire cost. Travel grants are especially important for broadening the participation at conferences by allowing students other than just the first author of accepted papers to attend. This gives more students the opportunity to see research presented first hand and interact with potential mentors and employers. This project will partially support 19 mostly graduate students and in some cases undergraduate students from US-based institutions. Every effort will be made to encourage participation by women and under-represented groups. The disbursement of travel funds will be managed by Vanderbilt University. Every student travel grant awardee will be required to submit a report post conference detailing their experience along with their travel expenses before the funds are disbursed to the awardee.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.