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[Stephanie Weirich <sweirich AT cis.upenn.edu>]

CALL for Applications for Student Travel Support

SIGPLAN Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop @ ICFP
Vancouver, BC (co-located with ICFP 2015)
Sunday, August 30th, 2015

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~sweirich/icfp-plmw15/

We are pleased to invite students interested in functional programming 
research to the programming languages mentoring workshop at ICFP. The goal of 
this workshop is to introduce senior undergraduate and early graduate 
students to research topics in functional programming as well as provide 
career mentoring advice to help them get through graduate school, land a 
great job, and succeed. We have recruited leaders from the functional 
programming community to provide overviews of current research topics, and 
give
students valuable advice about how to thrive in graduate school, search for a 
job, and cultivate habits and skills that will help them in research careers.

This workshop is part of the activities surrounding ICFP, the International 
Conference on Functional Programming, and takes place the day before the main 
conference. One goal of the workshop is to make the ICFP conference more 
accessible to newcomers and we hope that participants will stay through the 
entire conference.

Through the generous donation of our sponsors, we are able to provide travel 
scholarships to fund student participation. These travel scholarships will 
cover reasonable travel expenses (airfare, hotel and registration fees) for 
attendance at both the workshop and the ICFP
conference. Anyone may apply for a travel scholarship, but first priority 
will be given to women and underrepresented minority applicants from the 
United States and Canada.

The workshop is open to all. Students with alternative sources of funding for 
their travel and registration fees are welcome. In particular, many student 
attendance programs provide full or partial travel funding for students to 
attend ICFP 2015, including the ACM Student Research Competition. More 
information about student attendance programs at ICFP is available: 
http://icfpconference.org/icfp2015/student-attendance.html  

APPLICATION for TRAVEL SUPPORT:
The travel funding application is available here: 
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~rxg/icfp-plmw/
The deadline for full consideration of funding is April 24th, 2015. Selected 
participants will be notified starting June 5th.

ORGANIZERS:
Ron Garcia, University of British Columbia
Stephanie Weirich, University of Pennsylvania
with Kathleen Fisher, Tufts University (and General Chair, ICFP 2015)