NSF Student Travel Grant for 2019 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (ACM/IEEE NanoCom)

ACM/IEEE NanoCom系列会议旨在创建一个跨学科的论坛，以促进和开发纳米机器的新通信和计算范例。自2014年以来，该会议每年举行一次，已成为纳米计算和通信网络基本进展的主要场所。 NanoCom突出研究潜力，激发新颖和突破性的想法，并确定短期和中期开发目标。会议的特点是杰出的主旨发言人，邀请全体会议，并公开呼吁在口头和海报会议上提出的论文。欢迎新颖的理论研究成果、基于实现的解决方案以及立场和路线图论文。该奖项将支持10名美国学生参加2019年9月25日至27日在爱尔兰都柏林举行的ACM/IEEE NanoCom 2019。参加这样高水平的技术会议对未来的研究人员来说是非常有价值的。这是一个真正的跨学科领域，需要与跨越不同领域的专家进行密切互动和频繁讨论。ACM/IEEE NanoCom 2019旨在成为此类讨论的论坛。学生不仅将接触到该领域的最新技术，而且他们还将有机会与来自世界各地的机构的同行互动，与领先的研究人员会面，并参加可能塑造该领域未来的讨论。旅行赠款将针对本科生和研究生谁将大大受益于参加这次会议，但有有限的旅行资金。特别是，四分之一的可用奖项将保留给首次参加NanoCom的人，他们没有被会议接受的论文，优先考虑本科生和一年级的研究生。另外四分之一的可用奖项将保留给代表性不足的群体（妇女，少数民族和残疾人），无论是否接受论文。对于剩余的一半可用奖项（不保留给上述类别），将优先考虑女学生以及那些来自传统上没有代表参加会议的代表性不足的少数民族服务机构的学生，该奖项反映了NSF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。

The ACM/IEEE NanoCom conference series aims at creating a trans-disciplinary forum to foster and develop new communications and computing paradigms for nanoscale machines. The conference has been held annually since 2014 and has become the premier venue for fundamental advances in nanoscale computing and communication networks. NanoCom highlights research potentials, stimulates novel and breakthrough ideas, and identifies the short and medium-term exploitation goals. The conference features distinguished keynote speakers, invited plenary talks and an open call for papers presented both in oral and poster sessions. Novel theoretical research results, implementation-based solutions, and position and roadmap papers are welcome.This award will support 10 students in the United States to attend ACM/IEEE NanoCom 2019, which will be held in Dublin, Ireland, on September 25-27, 2019. Attending such high-caliber technical venue is extremely valuable for future researchers. This is a truly inter-disciplinary field, which requires close interaction and frequent discussions with experts that span different areas. ACM/IEEE NanoCom 2019 is aimed at becoming the forum for such discussions to occur. Students will not only be exposed to the state-of-the-art in the field, but they will also have the opportunity to interact with peers from institutions worldwide, meet with leading researchers, and take part in discussions that are likely to shape the future of the field. The travel grants will target undergraduate and graduate students who will substantially benefit from attending this conference but have limited travel funds. In particular, one quarter of the available awards will be reserved to first-time attendees to NanoCom who do not have a paper accepted to the conference, with priority to undergraduate and first-year graduate students. Another quarter of the available awards will be reserved for under-represented groups (women, minorities and people with disabilities), with or without an accepted paper. For the remaining half of the available awards (not reserved for the aforementioned categories), higher priority will be given to female students as well as those from underrepresented minority-serving institutions that are not traditionally represented in the conference.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.