-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: March SigComm-Members Monthly Digest Datum: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 20:56:49 -0500 Von: Erich Nahum nahum@turing.acm.org Antwort an: Erich Nahum nahum@turing.acm.org An: SIGCOMM-MEMBERS@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG

Dear SIGCOMM Community Members:

This is the March 2006 List Digest. If you want an announcement relevant to the computer networks research community to appear in this forum, please send me a message before the 1st of each month.

- Erich Nahum infodir_sigcomm (at) acm.org SIGCOMM Information Services Director

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SIGCOMM News

SIGCOMM GEODIVERSITY TRAVEL GRANTS

ACM SIGCOMM has created a travel grant to increase the geographic diversity of its flagship "Sigcomm Data Communications Festival". The grant sponsors selected attendees in their early career (at most five years of full-time, full-level [non-postdoc] post-PhD employment) from under-represented countries based on need, distance to the conference venue, and impact of their attendance in increasing the diversity of conference participation. The grant covers travel, lodging, and registration to the main Sigcomm conference.

The committee strongly prefers applicants who are not paper authors (the committee believes that authors' home organizations should cover costs for authors). Poster authors, however, are encouraged to apply. Other criteria will include evidence of a serious interest in networking, as demonstrated by project experience. In most cases, no more than one applicant will be funded from each organization. ACM SIGCOMM encourages participation of women and under-represented minorities.

The program commenced with a $20,000 USD grant to sponsor attendees to Sigcomm 2006 in Pisa, Italy. Interested parties are encouraged to submit an application to the current travel grant chairs for Sigcomm 2006.

What is covered?

Support is intended to fully cover travel (economy airfare), registration for the conference, lodging at the conference hotel (four nights), meals, and local transportation. The specific costs will vary for each applicant, and are not expected to exceed $2500 USD. Reimbursement details will be announced to award recipients.

Who decides?

Applicants are selected by the Sigcomm Travel Grant Committee.

Application Process

An application consists of:

A. a 2-page application B. a supporting letter from the applicant's supervisor C. a supporting letter from a colleague

NOTE: the applicant should submit only (A); (B) and (C) should be sent directly from the letter authors

A. Application:

Page 1:

1. Indicate their affiliation and any other personal information the applicant feels is relevant to support their case.

2. Indicate evidence that the applicant meets the eligibility criteria above.

3. Include a brief summary of research interests and accomplishments to date, including a description of areas reflected in the SIGCOMM 2006 program that would impact the applicant's research.

4. Include their estimated expenses in U.S. dollars for attending the conference (total, and breakdown by conference registration, travel, lodging, and meals). When computing your estimated budget, please use $525 USD as the figure for early registration.

Page 2: * Provide a short 1-page vita, focusing on current research interests and recent and pending publications.

B. Letter from the applicant's current supervisor (e.g., post-doc supervisor, department chair), sent by the supervisor directly (NOT forwarded by the applicant), which:

* Confirms the applicant's standing at their institution (date started, current job title)

* Indicate current funding status, or explain why the applicant is in need of a travel grant.

C. A separate letter of recommendation from a technical colleague, preferably from a different institution in a different location (i.e., different country), sent by the colleague directly (NOT forwarded by the applicant), which:

* Describes the professional relationship between the applicant and colleague, e.g., discussing their collaboration

* Indicates why the applicant would benefit from attending the conference.

* Elaborate on the strengths and potential contributions of the applicant.

Send application and recommendation letters by e-mail to Travel Grant chairs in English only, formatted as follows:

- ASCII (preferable) 60 lines/page, 80 characters/line limit

- PDF US letter or A4 pagesize 12 point, single-spaced, 1" margin

------------------------------------------------------------------ Upcoming deadlines of Conferences and publications financially supported and planned by SIGCOMM:

Call for Papers -- SenSys 2006 Registration Deadline: March 30, 2006 Submission Deadline: April 6, 2006 Conference Dates: November 1-3, 2006 Location: Boulder, Colorado, USA URL: http://sensys.acm.org/2006/

Call for Participation -- Workshop 2 on Theory of Networked Computation Conference Dates: March 16-17, 2006 Location: Berkeley, CA, USA email: Judi.Paige@yale.edu Call for Participation -- NSDI 2006 Conference Dates: May 8-10, 2006 Location: San Jose, California, USA URL: http://www.usenix.org/events/nsdi06/

Call for Participation -- SIGCOMM 2006 Conference Dates: Sep 11-15, 2006 Location: Pisa, Italy URL: http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigcomm/sigcomm2006

----------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming deadlines of Conferences planned in cooperation with SIGCOMM: (Remember that you, as a SIGCOMM member, are eligible for the conference "member rate" even it it's an IEEE or USENIX conference.)

----------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming deadlines of other conferences and journals related to the data communications area:

Call for Papers -- ASPLOS 2006 Paper Registration: March 1st, 2006 Submission Deadline: March 8th, 2006 Conference Dates: October 21-25, 2006 Location: San Jose, CA, USA URL: http://www.princeton.edu/~asplos06/

Call for Papers -- Workshop on the Economics of Networked Systems (NetEcon) Submission Deadline: March 27, 2006 Conference Dates: June 11, 2006 Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA URL: http://www.cs.duke.edu/nicl/netecon06/

Call for Papers -- ICNP 2006 Paper Registration: May 9th, 2006 Submission Deadline: May 16th, 2006 Conference Dates: November 12-15, 2006 Location: Santa Barbara, CA, USA URL: http://www.ieee-icnp.org/2006/

Call for Papers -- IEEE LCN 2006 Submission Deadline: May 12th, 2006 Conference Dates: November 14-17, 2006 Location: Tampa, Florida, USA URL: http://www.ieeelcn.org

Call for Participation -- IEEE Create-Net 2006 Conference Dates: Mar 1-3, 2006 Location: Barcelona, Spain URL: http://www.tridentcom.org

Call for Participation -- IEEE Infocom 2006 Conference Dates: April 23-29, 2006 Location: Barcelona, Spain URL: http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2006 Call for Participation -- WWW 2006 Conference Dates: May 22-26, 2006 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland URL: http://www2006.org

Call for Participation -- NOSDAV 2006 Conference Dates: May 22-23, 2006 Location: Newport, Rhode Island, USA URL: http://www.nossdav.org/2006/

Call for Participation -- ENGI 2006 Conference Dates: May 28-31, 2006 Location: University of Reading, UK URL: http://netlab.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/~engi2006/

Call for Participation -- IWQoS 2006 Conference Dates: June 19-21, 2006 Location: New Haven, Connecticut, USA URL: http://westtemple.cs.yale.edu/iwqos06/

Call for Participation -- IEEE DSN 2006 Conference Dates: June 25-28, 2006 Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA URL: http://www.dsn.org

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