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

该项目将为美国研究生参加2019年中间件会议及其相关研讨会、教程和博士研讨会提供差旅支持。本课程将使学生接触到分布式系统和中间件新兴领域的新思想，并允许他们与其他学生和研究人员进行互动，从而拓宽他们的知识视野。中间件将来自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行业面临的职业机会和现实挑战。中间件会议对学生来说特别有益，这不仅是因为它的高质量技术内容，还因为它承诺通过长期运行的博士研讨会进行指导，并将学术和工业研究强有力地集成在一起。由于机票、酒店和会议注册的费用，参加2019年中间件会议的费用将超出普通研究生的承受能力。虽然许多学生可以从他们的顾问那里获得旅行资金，但情况并非总是如此，或者可能无法支付全部费用。旅行补助对于扩大会议的参与度尤其重要，因为它允许学生参加会议，而不仅仅是论文的第一作者。这让更多的学生有机会看到研究的第一手资料，并与潜在的导师和雇主互动。该项目将部分支持来自美国院校的19名学生，其中大部分是研究生，也有一些是本科生。将尽一切努力鼓励妇女和代表性不足的群体参与。差旅费的支付将由范德比尔特大学管理。在资金支付给获奖者之前，每位学生旅行补助金获得者将被要求在会议后提交一份报告，详细说明他们的经历以及他们的旅行费用。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值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.