{"id":175,"date":"2017-05-18T13:27:05","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T17:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podc.org\/podc2017\/?page_id=175"},"modified":"2021-10-29T10:39:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T14:39:45","slug":"student-grants","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.podc.org\/podc2017\/student-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"

36th Annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on
\nPrinciples of Distributed Computing<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Washington, DC, USA
\nJuly 25-27, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS for STUDENT TRAVEL AWARDS<\/strong><\/p>\n

PODC 2017, along with SIGOPS, SIGACT, ACM, and other PODC sponsors, would like to encourage student participation at the Symposium.<\/p>\n

PODC 2017 will partially reimburse the travel costs and\/or the registration cost of deserving graduate student registrants who might otherwise be unable to attend the conference.<\/p>\n

Eligibility Requirements<\/h2>\n

Students eligible to apply are the following:<\/p>\n

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  1. Graduate students at the time of registration, or<\/li>\n
  2. Undergraduate students that are (co)-authors of a PODC’17 paper.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The number and amount of awards will be determined based on the available budget and the applications received.<\/p>\n

    Application Material<\/h2>\n

    Applications should be sent by e-mail with the subject “PODC 2017 Student Travel Grant Application” to PODC 2017 Travel Grant coordinator Bapi Chatterjee <bhaskerchatterjee@gmail.com><\/a>. In addition to a student’s application, a short letter of recommendation should be sent by the student’s advisor<\/strong> to the above email address with the subject line “PODC 2017 Student Travel Grant – Recommendation” (the advisor should clarify the nature and amount of any other sources of funding that are available or have been applied for). Please note that both these emails must be received by the deadline <\/strong>(see below) in order for an application to be considered.<\/p>\n

    Each student application should include the following:<\/p>\n