NSF Student Travel Grant for 2018 ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (ACM/IEEE NanoCom)

Suny At Buffalo, Amherst NY

Investigators

Abstract

The NanoCom conference series, sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), aims at creating a trans-disciplinary forum to foster and develop new communications and computing paradigms for nanoscale machines. The conference has been held annually since 2014, and has become the reference venue for fundamental advances in nanoscale computing and communication networks. ACM NanoCom highlights research potentials, stimulates novel and breakthrough ideas, and identifies their short- and medium-term exploitation goals. The conference features an open call for papers as well as keynote and plenary talks, tutorials on state-of-the-art topics, and poster sessions. Both novel research results and implementation-based solutions are welcome. This award will support 10 students in the United States to attend ACM NanoCom 2018, which will be held in Reykjavik, Iceland on September 5-7, 2018. Attending a high-caliber technical event such as this is extremely valuable for future researchers. This is a truly inter-disciplinary field, which requires close interaction and frequent discussions with experts that span different areas. ACM NanoCom 2018 is aimed at becoming the forum for such discussions to occur. Students will not only be exposed to the state-of the-art in the field, but they will also have the opportunity to interact with peers from institutions worldwide, meet with leading researchers, and take part in discussions that are likely to shape the future of the field. The travel grants will target graduate students who will substantially benefit from attending this conference but have limited travel funds. Priority will be given to students from groups underrepresented in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.