Travel Awards

CPS Week  http://www.cpsweek.org Conference organizers anticipate availability of Student Travel Grants to enable increased student participation in CPS Week events. Each grant includes partial reimbursement for registration and travel costs.

Important Dates

• Application Deadline: March 16, 2009
• Notification of Acceptance: March 30, 2009
  
  

Eligibility

Student selection for the travel grants will be in accordance with the following guidelines:

• The applicant must be a current graduate student at a U.S. institution of higher education.
• The applicant must have a fully paid registration for RTAS, IPSN or HSCC as a student and must physically attend CPSWeek.
• Travel grants will be awarded according to a financial need basis. Students who are well-funded and have ample means of covering their travel should not apply.
• Students who have already received another travel grant from an CPSWeek-related conference or workshop should not apply.

How to Apply

Interested student applicants should pay for the registration and attend CPSWeek first. If they are selected to receive the travel award, the travel award should cover partial expense of the students for registration and travel costs.

The student applicant must send an e-mail to CPStravel@cs.ucsd.edu. The subject of the e-mail must be CPSWeek 2009 TRAVEL GRANT APPLICATION (in uppercase letters). This e-mail must include the student's faculty advisor in the cc list. The e-mail must include the following information:

Name:

University:

Address:

e-mail:

Advisor Name:

Research Topic:

Degree Sought:

Is your research funded by an active grant (yes/no):
If Yes, is  the source of funding NSF? (yes/no):

Underrepresented state/institution (yes/no):

Underrepresented/minority student (explain in 2-5 words):

The applications will be examined and ranked. The top applicants will receive award letters (by e-mail) informing them of the acceptance decision. They will then be instructed how to receive partial refunds, which will be issued to the person or institution that covered the initial expenses.

For updates and details, please check http://www.cpsweek.org

Call for Participation 

The second "Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Week" is a week-long event that brings together at the same time and location three leading research conferences that target complementary aspects of CPS. The 2009 version of CPS Week will be held in San Francisco, USA from April 13-16, 2009. The three co-located conferences are: 

• ACM International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 2009.
• Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC), 2009.
• IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2009. 

In addition to the main conferences, there are Three plenary sessions, CPS Forum posters and demos, Extreme Sensing Competition, and CPS Forum. After the three day main conferences (4/13 - 4/15), there are 5 tutorials and 7 workshops on April 16.

The titles and speakers of plenary sessions are:

1. Sensing and Control on a Planetary Scale
   Raghunathan  "Raj" Rajkumar, Carnegie Mellon University
2. Distributed Architectures for Embedded Systems: Challenges for Real-Time Control
   Albert Benveniste, IRISA/INRIA, Rennes Cedex, France
3. From Galaxies to Sensor Networks: Science in an Exponential World
   Alex Szalay, Almni Centennial Professor, Johns Hopkins University