Collaborative Research: Student Outreach Support Activities at IEEE-CS TCPP Sponsored Conferences

合作研究：IEEE-CS TCPP 赞助会议上的学生外展支持活动

• 批准号: 1550722
• 负责人: Ajay Gupta
• 金额: $ 2.83万
• 依托单位: Western Michigan University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-08-15 至 2017-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1550722&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Student; Outreach; Support

A crucial training aspect of graduate students in STEM fields consists of attending and presenting their work at premier scientific conferences. However, students attending technical meetings unaccompanied by their advisors or other mentors often feel isolated and do not fully gain from the experience because many may not know how to effectively navigate a technical conference or network with other researchers. Student-centric programs which are well-integrated with the conferences play a crucial role in providing younger attendees with the tools to take better advantage of their participation at these conferences. Student programs have emerged at several leading conferences, but are still far from being widely adopted. In particular, the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), the flagship research conference sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP), has a tradition of hosting a PhD forum for many years. This program started as a simple poster presentation and has recently evolved into a comprehensive training workshop that includes sessions on career planning and hands-on tutorials on writing and presentation skills. Moreover, the IPDPS PhD forum provides effective opportunities for student networking. This project seeks to seed similar student programs into the TCPP-sponsored sister conferences of IPDPS that fall under the broad umbrella of parallel and distributed processing, such as Parallel Architecture and Compilation Techniques (PACT) and High Performance Computing (HiPC). In addition, the project seeks to further improve the current student mentorship programs at IPDPS, thereby contributing toward more productive workforce development in the high performance computing disciplines.This proposal will support student programs and student attendance at IPDPS and other sister conferences sponsored by IEEE-CS TCPP. The goal is to cover the whole parallel and distributed processing spectrum by making sure that more specialized conferences also get adequate student support. The beneficiary conferences will be required to host, at the very minimum, an introductory session where students will be enabled to network with peers and mentors. Additionally, conference organizers will be provided with the logistic plan of the PhD Forum at IPDPS and will be encouraged to emulate some of its activities including a student-driven poster session. In this way, students will not only have access to the conference but will also get a more fulfilling and integral experience. To be eligible, the applicant must be enrolled in a degree program at a US-based institution at the time of the conference. The application will include a budget request and justification, gender and minority status, citizenship, and optionally, paper acceptance notice and all the reviews. This project will especially target students that typically would not be able to attend these conferences without financial support, including undergraduate students, graduate students in their first year, and students attending their first conference. In order to increase the diversity of attendees, the project will strongly solicit participation of female and other minority groups.

STEM领域研究生的一个关键培训方面包括参加并在主要科学会议上介绍他们的工作。但是，参加顾问或其他导师无人陪伴的技术会议的学生常常感到孤立，并且不会从经验中获得全部收益，因为许多人可能不知道如何有效地与其他研究人员进行技术会议或网络。 与会议充分融合的学生以学生为中心的计划在为年轻的与会者提供更好地利用他们参加这些会议的工具方面发挥了至关重要的作用。学生课程在几个领先的会议上出现了，但远非广泛采用。特别是，由IEEE计算机协会平行处理技术委员会（TCPP）赞助的旗舰研究会议（TCPP）的国际平行和分布式处理研讨会（IPDP）具有多年主持博士论坛的传统。该计划最初是一个简单的海报演示文稿，最近演变成一个全面的培训研讨会，其中包括有关职业计划和关于写作和演示技巧的动手教程的会议。此外，IPDPS博士论坛为学生网络提供了有效的机会。该项目旨在将类似的学生计划播种到IPDP的TCPP赞助的姊妹会议中，这些IPDP属于平行和分布式处理的广泛伞，例如平行结构和汇编技术（PACT）和高性能计算（HIPC）。此外，该项目旨在进一步改善IPDPS的当前学生指导计划，从而为高性能计算学科中的提高生产力的劳动力发展做出贡献。该提案将支持IPDPS和其他由IEEEE-CS TCPP赞助的IPDPS的学生计划和学生出席。目的是通过确保更专业的会议也获得足够的学生支持来涵盖整个平行和分布式处理范围。受益人会议将被要求至少举办一个介绍性会议，在该课程中，将使学生与同龄人和导师建立联系。此外，将向会议组织者提供IPDPS博士论坛的逻辑计划，并鼓励效仿其某些活动，包括学生驱动的海报会议。这样，学生不仅可以访问会议，而且还将获得更加充实和不可或缺的经验。为了符合条件，申请人必须在会议时在美国一家机构的学位课程中注册。 该申请将包括预算请求和理由，性别和少数族裔，公民身份以及可选的，纸质接受通知以及所有评论。该项目尤其针对通常无法在没有财政支持的情况下参加这些会议的学生，包括本科生，第一年的研究生以及参加第一次会议的学生。为了增加与会者的多样性，该项目将强烈征集女性和其他少数群体的参与。