Travel Grants

Thanks to the supporting organizations, SIGCOMM2007 has three travel grants programs: GeoDiversity Travel Grants for faculties and researchers, US Minority Faculty Travel Grants and Student Travel Grants. The application processes are the same for the three travel grants.

ACM SIGCOMM GeoDiversity Travel Grants are for people holding faculty and researcher positions in their early career (at most five years of full-time, full-level [non-postdoc] post-PhD employment) from under-represented countries. Roughly 5-10 awardees will be selected.

US Minority Faculty Travel Grants are funded by NSF for US-based minority or minority serving faculty members. Roughly 2 awardees will be selected.

Student Travel Grants are for students only. Roughly 15-20 awardees will be selected.

The committee strongly prefers applicants who are not paper authors (the committee believes that authors' home organizations should cover costs for authors). Here, 'author' means any named author on a conference or workshop paper.

SIGCOMM2007 gratefully acknowledges Cisco and NSF for financial support of these travel grants.

Important Dates:

Submission Deadline for Student Travel Grants:	May 21, 2007
Submission Deadline for US Minority Faculty Travel Grants:	June 4, 2007 (extended from May 21)
Submission Deadline for GeoDiversity Travel Grants:	June 18, 2007 (extended again from June 4)
Acceptance Notification:	June 18, 2007
GeoDiversity Acceptance Notification:	June 25, 2007 (extended from June 18)

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.

Details on the documentation required for submissions are at: http://www.sigcomm.org/geodiversity.html.

Send application and recommendation letters by e-mail to: "sigcomm2007travel at acm.org" in ASCII (highly preferable), or PDF format ONLY.

US Minority Faculty Travel Grants:

US Minority Faculty Travel Grants are funded by NSF for US-based minority or minority serving faculty members.

An application for the NSF faculty travel award will consist of the faculty member's vita and a cover letter highlighting how he or she would benefit from attending ACM SIGCOMM. The letter should include

a brief summary of research interests and accomplishments to date;
a description of areas reflected in SIGCOMM program that would impact the faculty member's research and teaching;
why the conference attendance is important to the applicant; and
the 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 $525/650 for member/non-member early registration.

Send application letter by e-mail to: "sigcomm2007travel at acm.org" in ASCII (highly preferable), or PDF format ONLY.

SIGCOMM 2007 Student Travel Grants:

The purpose of this program is to encourage graduate student participation at the conference by partially funding the travel costs of students who would otherwise be unable to attend.

Applications are accepted from students at degree granting institutions throughout the world. The committee strongly prefers to give grants to students who are not paper authors. (The committee believes that for authors, costs should be covered by the advisor or university.)
Poster authors, however, are encouraged to apply. Other criteria will include evidence of a serious interest in networking, as demonstrated by coursework and project experience.
Normally, no more than one student will be funded from each school. ACM SIGCOMM encourages participation of women and under-represented minorities.

What is covered:

The maximum amount of support provided to each recepient is set by the committee basing on its own judgement, and it is intended to partially cover the applicant's travel (economy airfare) and registration. Lodging and meal expenses may or may not be partially covered depending on the total availability of funds.

The grants will be handled via reimbursement by check in US Dollars. For any expense that is covered, a receipt is required. An expense report form and other required forms will have to be turned in after the conference. The reimbursement will be sent as check via mail six to eight weeks after the documents are received. The details will be announced to the award recipients.

How to apply for Student Travel Grants?

An application for a travel grant will consist of a letter (maximum of 2 pages, ascii or pdf only) from the applicant, and a recommendation letter (maximum of 1 page, again ascii or pdf only) from the student's advisor for the student travel grants, or from the applicant's supervisor or colleague for the SIGCOMM GeoDiversity grants.
The letter from the applicant should:

Indicate their affiliation and any other personal information the student feels is relevant to support their case.
Include a brief summary of research interests and accomplishments to date, and plans for future research.
Include a short (1/2 page max, format described below) vita, containing relevant coursework and grades for students.
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 $350 as the figure for student early registration, and $525/650 for member/non-member early registration.

In addition, the student's advisor should send a letter of recommendation (maximum of 1 page, format described below) to the committee.
This letter should:

Confirm that the student is a Ph.D. candidate in good standing (one sentence);
Indicate why the student would benefit from attending the conference;
Elaborate on the strengths and potential contributions of the student; Indicate current funding status, or explain briefly why the student is in need of a travel grant.

Send application and recommendation letters by e-mail to: "sigcomm2007travel at acm.org" in ASCII (highly preferable), or PDF format ONLY.