SIGAPP Student Travel Award Program

The SIGAPP Student Travel Award Program (STAP) provides support for its student members to attend the SAC conference and present their work. The eligibility criteria is:

  • The applicant must be active SIGAPP member
  • The applicant must be active student in his/her institution.
  • The student must attend the conference and present the work.
  • First consideration is given to applications in which the student is the primary author of the work.
  • Second consideration is given to applications in which the student is non-primary author and selection is dependent upon fund availability.

The application deadline is November 20, 2011. Eligible applications will be evaluated on a competitive basis. Expenses that will be considered for coverage include conference registration fees, travel expenses to and from the conference, and accommodation expenses while attending SAC. Meal expenses will not be covered and neither will the costs related to obtaining a visa to travel to the conference location. The amount of each award depends on the type of travel (domestic or international - intercontinental or intra-continental) and the applicant pool and their needs.

Being only a member of the ACM (without a SIGAPP membership) does not qualify for receiving the award. Students may join SIGAPP for a nominal fee of US$8. Please refer to the following website for more details.

http://www.acm.org/membership/membership/student/StuMemApp.pdf

The application must include the following documents in one compressed zip file via email to Professor Eric Wong at ewong@utdallas.edu

  • Completed application form (posted at http://www.sigapp.org/documents/STAP_Form.doc)
  • Two-page resume
  • Detailed travel budget (including an appropriate invoice)
  • Reference letter from the student's research advisor with confirmation of the budget and assurances that any additional expenses will be covered by the student’s institution

The subject of the email should be "STAP APPLICATION - <lastname, firstname>" For example, if the first name is John and the last name is Smith, then the subject of the email should be "STAP APP LICATION - Smith, John",

Incomplete applications and those that do not comply with the above instructions (e.g., sending the required documents via different emails) will be automatically disqualified.

Please send inquiries to:

Professor Eric Wong
SIGAPP Secretary
Department of Computer Science
University of Texas at Dallas

Email: ewong@utdallas.edu

 

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