SOSP Student Scholarship

Instructions and travel expense caps for scholarship recipients are listed at the bottom of this web page.

Notice: The deadline for student scholarship applications has passed. Applicants to the women's workshop are granted a one week extension, to August 23rd, and should apply as instructed below. Priority during this extension period will be given to undergraduate women students desirous of participating in the women's workshop and conference.

SOSP, through generous donations from conference sponsors, will offer approximately 85 scholarships to enable students to attend the conference.

Each scholarship covers the SOSP conference registration, which includes meals and proceedings, and a shared hotel room during the conference. Additional funding will be awarded toward the cost of travel, but is limited. Due to the high variability in travel cost, awardees are asked for their due diligence in finding reasonably priced fares; this will be submitted in the scholarship application.

Students receiving scholarships have agreed to serve as a session scribes and to assist with onsite registration during the conference. Applicants are also encouraged to participate in the poster session and work-in-progress presentations.

Who should apply

Funding is available to all students at educational institutions, world-wide. In addition to the type of scholarships offered in the past, donations from our conference sponsors are also available to fund scholarships for students in underrepresented groups (particularly women and minorities). Please indicate in the form below if you think you qualify. Women should also consider attending the Women's Workshop prior to the start of the conference.

Although most applicants in past years have been graduate students, undergraduates who are actively involved in systems research projects are welcome to apply.

Applicants must be members of the ACM. See the ACM site for a student membership application. Note that ACM provides reduced rates for students residing in economically developing countries.

Applications should be in plain text (no attachments; simple ASCII text in the body of your message), in English, and submitted by email to sospstudents-L@cs.cornell.edu. The advisor's statement should be sent separately from the student's application, and should indicate the student's name in the Subject line.

Name:
 Address:
 Email:

 ACM member number:
   (or date of application, if you have not received your number yet)

 School:
 Department:
 Degree pursued:
 When you expect to finish:

 Faculty advisor
   Name:
   E-mail:

 Have you attended SOSP before?
 Have you previously received an SOSP scholarship?

 SOSP program participation
   Are you an author of an accepted paper?
     If so, are you the principal author?
     Will you be presenting it at the conference?

 Are you a US citizen or permanent resident?
 Should you be considered for a woman/minority scholarship?
 Will you attend the women's workshop?

 Anticipated travel expenses:
   (list)
 

Recipient Instructions and Travel Expense Caps

Instructions

You will be reimbursed for the following costs: Capped airfare + $80 ground transportation (shuttle) + 3 nights shared hotel (4 if attending women's workshop) (i.e. w/ roommate). See below for details in each of these categories.

The scholarship covers $80 towards a shuttle ($40 each way) or rental car. This is a maximum amount. If you choose a more expensive option (other shuttle or rental car), the reimbursement will be capped at $80. We have negotiated this $40 one-way fee with Cascade Executive Services. Please send a request for shuttle services by emailing Cascade at casexecservices@aol.com, mention SOSP and include flight details (number of people, flight, and expected arrival time). Shuttle service is provided on Oct. 14 for arrivals and Oct. 17 for departures. When you arrive at the Portland airport (PDX), proceed to the bottom of the escalator between baggage areas 8 and 9. A booth will be set up with a sign for the conference. Note for women's workshop participants: Cascade will also offer a Saturday shuttle service to Skamania. The cost for the Saturday shuttle will be $55, and so the ground transportation allowance for this group will be $95.

Airfare reimbursement will be capped based on region. The table below lists Saturday and Sunday travel fares from the various source cities, as obtained from kayak.com, travelocity and expedia with dates Sunday, October 14th (or Saturday, October 13th for International flights/ womens workshop) to Wednesday, October 17th. Reimbursement will be determined per the following:

min(actual cost, Saturday fare + $100, Sunday fare)

For hotel, the scholarship covers half the cost for a double room ($169/night + tax). Please select a roommate and reserve a room with Skamania Lodge before September 13th. Please use the wiki (http://wiki.cs.pdx.edu/sosp) if you need help in identifying potential room mates. Reservations can be made online http://www.skamania.com or by telephone by calling 1-800-221-7117. Please mention ACM SOSP when making reservations to get the group rate. For online reservations via Skamania's website, the SOSP group code is "SOSP1013".

For the registration, you MUST register via the online registration site before the early registration deadline (September 7th). Please provide your ACM member number or date of application to ACM and indicate that you have been awarded a scholarship. You will *not* need to pay.

To receive your reimbursement after attending the conference, please send receipts to:

SOSP 2007 Scholarship Reimbursement
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Denison University
Granville, OH 43023

Airline Caps

Scholarship Committee

• Chair: Robbert van Renesse, Cornell University
• Hakim Weatherspoon, Cornell University

sosp-org@sosp2007.org