Call for Applications

The PhD Student Mentoring Program aims at helping the students attending the Cluster conference to build a better scientific career. A group of events specifically targeted to this Program will take place throughout the conference, including a Master Class on poster design and presentation, a public poster session with the participants' posters, various panels with senior researchers on career planning, industry research careers, etc. In addition, we will organize a series of courses on selected hot topics to introduce the PhD students with the new and important research areas relevant to the conference theme. The PhD Student Mentoring Program will be scheduled so that the participating students can follow all the main scientific and social events of the conference.

Please submit a plain PDF document, formatted in the Cluster conference proceeding style, through the EasyChair submission Web site, using the PhD Student Mentoring Track.

This document should provide a 2-page description of your research achievements and plans. It should include the following:

All 2-page submissions will be reviewed for consistency and presentation by the Program Committee, with a friendly feedback returned to the students if necessary. The objective is to host as many motivated students as possible in the Program. Note that there is not scientific endorsement of the scientific contents by the conference, so that this application cannot be considered as a scientific publication.

The participating students commit to prepare a poster for the conference, based on the description of their research vision provided in this document.

Note that all IEEE member students attending the PhD Student Mentoring Program can benefit from the "Bring your student with you!" reduced group registration rate if they are attending together with their IEEE member supervisors. 

 

All applications should be joined with an official endorsement letter of the senior adviser mentioning the current enrollment program and the number of years spent in this program (including the current one). An example wording is available below. It should also specify that the student will bring and present a poster introducing his/her current research activities and vision.

This letter should be provided as an attached PDF document, to be uploaded at the bottom of the submission form, together with the main paper document.

An example of statement for the endorsement letter

 

Applications will be reviewed on a first-come-first-served basis according to the following schedule:

Application submission date (by 6pm GMT+2)	Notification date
Thursday, July 17	Monday, July 21
Thursday, July 24	Monday, July 28
Thursday, July 31	Monday, August 4
Thursday, August 14	Monday, August 18
Thursday, August 28	Monday, September 1

The Cluster conference will do its best to facilitate student participation in the PhD Student Mentoring Program. NSF kindly agreed to provide a limited number of traveling grants to students participating to PhD Student Mentoring Program. By the NSF regulation, this program is only open to students registered in US institutions for academic year 2013-2014 or 2014-2015.

To apply to this funding, please tick the adequate box at the bottom of the submission form.

Please, note that an application will be considered only if:

This NSF Traveling Grant can be freely cumulated with the "Bring your student with you!" reduced group registration rate.