MobiCom 2016: The 22nd Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking

The 22nd Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2016) is pleased to announce travel grants for students to attend the conference and its co-located workshops to be held in New York, USA, October 3 - 7, 2016. Funds for these travel grants are provided by NSF and SIGMOBILE.

Travel Grant Application

Grants are available only for full-time students attending colleges and universities in and outside of the US. Women, undergraduates and underrepresented minority students are particularly encouraged to apply.

To apply for a travel grant, the student applicant should send following material to mobicom2016.travelgrant@gmail.com.

The student's CV including country of origin and country of residence
SIGMOBILE student member number, if you have one. SIGMOBILE student membership costs 5$ for one year. You can apply here.
An application letter which should include:
- The title of his/her accepted MobiCom work (conference/workshop paper, poster or demo, finalist mobile app contest entry) - if the student is an author
- A brief summary of the student research interests and accomplishments to date
- A description of areas reflected in the MobiCom program that would impact the student's research
- A statement about why the conference attendance is important to the student
- An estimate of the following costs of attending MobiCom 2016: airfare, hotel, and conference registration. It is anticipated that travel grants will partially cover these attendance costs.

A recommendation letter from the advisor of the student applicant is also required. The letter should provide the following:

A confirmation that the student is a bona fide Ph.D. candidate or a M.Sc./B.Sc. student in good academic standing at the given institution.
An indication about how the student applicant would benefit from attending MobiCom.
A description of the student applicant's strengths and potential contributions to the mobile computing and networking field.
A statement of financial commitment to pay the remainder of the student applicants' travel cost not covered by the grant.

The advisor's letter should be sent to mobicom2016.travelgrant@gmail.com directly by the advisor.

Selection Criteria

Selection will be based on student merit qualifications (eg, paper authorship) and financial need (eg, travel distance/cost from home Campus, availability of grant funds, etc). In case of equivalent qualifications, priority will be given to women, undergraduates and underrepresented minorities.

Important Dates

Travel Grant Application Submission Deadline: August 22nd, 2016 (23:59 EDT)

Travel Grant Award Notification: August 24th, 2016

Deadline to Accept/Decline Travel Grant Award: August 26th, 2016 (23:59 EDT)

Grant Requirements/Restrictions

The full application package (by the student and the advisor) should be received on or before 23:59 EDT, August 22nd, 2016.
Student travel grants are meant to partially cover the cost of attending and participating in MobiCom 2016. The only travel expenses that can be reimbursed are accommodation, advance conference registration, and airfare.
For NSF Grants: These grants are available only for full-time students attending US colleges and universities (not necessarily US citizens or permanent residents) AND for US citizens or permanent residents studying abroad
Recipients of NSF travel awards must use US flag carriers.
The above grants are in addition to N2Women grants advertised on the MobiCom 2016 webpage.

B. N2Women Travel Grants Application Deadline: 23:59 EDT, June 27th, 2016

The 22nd Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2016) is pleased to announce travel grants for students to attend the conference and its co-located workshops to be held in New York, USA, Oct. 3 - 7, 2016. Funds for these travel grants are provided by a generous award from the N2Women.

N2Women is pleased to announce the continuation of our N2 Women Young Researcher Fellowship awards for Mobicom 2016. N2Women considers you a young researcher if you are currently a student, working as a post-doc, or in the 1st or 2nd year of your new research career. These awards will partially cover a young researcher's travel cost (up to $1000) to a meeting where an N2 Women event will be held.

In exchange, the young researcher must help organize the N2 Women meeting. The benefit of doing the organization, in addition to the travel funds, is for the young researcher to connect with the organizers of the conference who are, typically, leaders in the research field. We will arrange for a faculty or research member of N2 Women to assist/mentor the young researcher in this task.

Support for these N2 Women Young Researcher Fellowship awards has been generously provided by ACM SIGMOBILE, ACM SIGCOMM, IEEE ComSoc, IEEE CS TCCC, Microsoft Research, HP Labs and Google Research.

To apply for this fellowship or for more information, please see:
http://n2women.comsoc.org/
and click the Fellowships link.