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- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:18:27 +0800 (SGT)
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ICDM 2008 Travel Grants ======================= Thanks to the NSF (National Science Foundation), the Unesco Privacy Chair, and IBM, ICDM 2008 is able to offer travel grants. Below there is information on eligibility and application requirements for each of these grants. The required documentation should be sent by email, no later than October 24, 2008, to icdm08-grants@isti.cnr.it with subject line: “ICDM 2008 student travel grant application” in ASCII (highly preferable), or PDF format. Late submissions, or documents in other formats will not be accepted. What is covered --------------- The maximum amount of support provided to each grantee is set by the committee, and it is intended to partially cover the grantee’s lodging and registration. Travel may or may not be partially covered depending on the total availability of funds and the number of awards given. The grantee should pay the registration fee and travel expenses in advance, and then the Grant will reimburse some of these expenses (by check or by bank transfer, depending on the grant). See below for a description of the different travel grants that are available. 1. NSF Sponsored Student Travel Grants -------------------------------------- The purpose of the NSF sponsored student travel grants is to encourage graduate student participation at the conference by partially funding the costs of students who would otherwise be unable to attend. Applications for NSF sponsored grants are accepted only from students at degree granting institutions throughout the USA. The committee strongly prefers to give NSF grants to students who are not paper authors. All students however are encouraged to apply. Other criteria will include evidence of a serious interest in data mining research, as demonstrated by coursework and project experience. ICDM encourages participation of women and under-represented minorities, as well as participation of students from under-represented institutions. 2. Unesco Privacy Chair Sponsored Travel Grants ----------------------------------------------- The UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy (http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat) offers economic support to offset some of the costs associated with attending ICDM 2008 for participants coming from “transition” countries, which are nations other than USA, Canada, Western Europe, New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea. Preference is given to student authors, and authors of accepted papers. 3. IBM Sponsored Student Travel Grants -------------------------------------- Thanks to IBM’s sponsorship ICDM is able to offer additional student travel awards. All students are eligible to submit applications. How to apply for a sponsored travel grant ----------------------------------------- A student will have to submit an application that includes: (i) a cv, that shows the institution the applicant is studying/working at, (ii) a letter by the applicant that includes the following: a brief statement of the applicant’s research interest and current accomplishments, and their future research plans, a description of how the grant will help them with their research plans, any information that the student feels relevant for supporting their application, including title of the paper and names and affiliations of the co-authors if the student is an author, (iii) a recommendation letter from the student’s advisor supporting the application, that: confirms that the applicant was a student in good standing at the time the paper was submited to ICDM, describes how the applicant will benefit from attending ICDM, and explains why the student is in need of the travel grant. Non-student applicants should explicitly specify the Unesco Privacy Chair Sponsored Travel Grants in their application, that should include only documents (i) and (ii). The documents should be in ascii (highly recommended) or PDF format. All applications using other formats will be rejected. Send the application with all three required documents in ONE email to: icdm08-grants@isti.cnr.it with subject line: “ICDM 2008 student travel grant application” by Oct. 24, 2008.
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