From owner-sigcomm2002ex@ACM.ORG Mon Jun 24 12:49:33 2002 Return-Path: Received: from mail.acm.org (mail.acm.org [199.222.69.4]) by cs.utexas.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5OHnURL027064 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 12:49:30 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mail (mail.acm.org [199.222.69.4]) by mail.acm.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA17574; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 13:47:35 -0400 Received: from ACM.ORG by ACM.ORG (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 10210 for SIGCOMM2002EX@ACM.ORG; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 13:47:35 -0400 Approved-By: aterzis@SBCGLOBAL.NET Received: from alias.acm.org (alias.acm.org [199.222.69.90]) by mail.acm.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA26790 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 05:53:54 -0400 Received: from relay2.EECS.Berkeley.EDU ([169.229.60.28]) by alias.acm.org (ACM Email Forwarding Service) with ESMTP id COB73880 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 05:56:04 -0400 Received: from relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (localhost.Berkeley.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by relay2.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA01840 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 02:55:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cs.berkeley.edu (sky.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.45.171]) by relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA07488 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 02:55:19 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <3D16EC86.864017F9@cs.berkeley.edu> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 02:55:19 -0700 Reply-To: Ion Stoica Sender: ACM ACM SIGCOMM 2002 Executive Committee Mailing List From: Ion Stoica Subject: "student travel awards" update & questions To: SIGCOMM2002EX@ACM.ORG Status: OR We have received 62 submissions (the deadline was last Friday, 6/22). I have three quick questions: 1. What are the available funds at this point? 2. Do the awardee students receive complementary registrations? 3. How much is the hotel? Thanks, Ion From istoica@EECS.Berkeley.EDU Mon Jun 24 23:27:32 2002 Return-Path: Received: from relay2.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (relay2.EECS.Berkeley.EDU [169.229.60.28]) by cs.utexas.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5P4RSRL026181 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 23:27:28 -0500 (CDT) Received: from relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (localhost.Berkeley.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by relay2.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA17995 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 21:27:26 -0700 (PDT) From: istoica@EECS.Berkeley.EDU Received: from EECS.Berkeley.EDU (nsmail@imap4.CS.Berkeley.EDU [169.229.60.23]) by relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA27238; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 21:27:21 -0700 (PDT) To: Peter Steenkiste Cc: Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan , brown@psc.edu, MATHIS@vms.psc.edu, prs+@n1.sp.cs.cmu.edu Message-ID: <2f4ac294f5.294f52f4ac@EECS.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 21:27:21 -0700 X-Mailer: Netscape Webmail MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Language: en Subject: Re: RE: "student travel awards" update & questions X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: OR So just to summarize: - the registration cost is included in the $25K - the cost per student _including_ the registration fee should not exceed $1200 as long as we use the NSF money - the prefered way to handle the registration fee is to ask students to pay for it an later reimburse it Are these statements correct? Thanks, Ion ----- Original Message ----- From: Peter Steenkiste Date: Monday, June 24, 2002 2:01 pm Subject: RE: "student travel awards" update & questions > > I think the plan was definitely to charge the student travel grant > budget > for at least the registration fee, and possibly for the real cost. > Doing > the charging as an internal transfer so it looks like a > complementary > registration to the student would also make sense. > > However, the fact that most of our money comes from NSF changes this: > - we can only charge NSF for the registration fee, not for the > full cost of > a conference participant. > - the NSF money is coming to CMU, so we cannot do internal > transfers to > SIGCOMM. Somebody has to either bill CMU, or submit expense receipts. > > I think the cleanest solution is to have the students just pay the > registration fee and get reimbursed later. Would people complain > about this? > > Also: NSF requires that no student gets reimbursed more than $1200 > and the > average reimbursement should be under $1040. > > Clearly the Cisco money gives us a bit of flexibility to: > * support foreign students > * recover a higher % of the real cost > * deal with more expensive students (although I personally think > $1200 is > already very generous). > > Peter > > At 03:20 PM 6/24/2002 -0500, Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan wrote: > ># > >#Ion, > ># > >#>1. What are the available funds at this point? > ># > >#Approximately $25K total - $20 from NSF which must be used for > US students, > >#leaving the other $5K from Cisco to be used to support foreign > students># > >#>2. Do the awardee students receive complementary registrations? > ># > >#Yes, we will do complimentary conference registrations for the > student>#awardees. > > > > Correct me if I"m wrong, but > > I was under the impression that we were definitely going to use > > some of the $25k for the student registrations... (that's > what is in > > the budget...) we even talked about covering the real costs > of a > > registra- > > tion which is over $300, not just the official student > registration fee. > > However, assuming that we use $200 per student, this does > impact Ion. > > > > The confusion may be as follows: > > While the students will be given a "complimentary" reg. # in > order to > > register, we will be transferring funds from the $25k. > > > > Thanks, Chris > ># > >#>3. How much is the hotel? > ># > >#$128/night > ># > >#Janet Brown > ># > > > > > >-- > >Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan I'm going to have a "YEAR of > the dragon"+2 > >Computer Sciences, TAY2.124(C0500) My email addresses are: > chris@cs.utexas.edu>The University of Texas at Austin or > dragon@cs.utexas.edu>Austin, TX 78712-1188 URL: > www.cs.utexas.edu/users/chris/>+1 512 471 9546 fax: (471 8885) > Office: TAY 4.136 (pls fedex to TAY 2.124) > > From owner-sigcomm2002ex@ACM.ORG Thu Jul 11 02:50:05 2002 Return-Path: Received: from mail.acm.org (mail.acm.org [199.222.69.4]) by cs.utexas.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6B7o1RL012832 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 02:50:01 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mail (mail.acm.org [199.222.69.4]) by mail.acm.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA19488; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 03:46:46 -0400 Received: from ACM.ORG by ACM.ORG (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 16259 for SIGCOMM2002EX@ACM.ORG; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 03:46:45 -0400 Received: from alias2.acm.org (alias2.acm.org [199.222.69.92]) by mail.acm.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA23372 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 03:46:45 -0400 Received: from relay2.EECS.Berkeley.EDU ([169.229.60.28]) by alias2.acm.org (ACM Email Forwarding Service) with ESMTP id CRY73883 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 03:50:18 -0400 Received: from relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (localhost.Berkeley.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by relay2.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA29918 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 00:49:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from EECS.Berkeley.EDU (nsmail@imap4.CS.Berkeley.EDU [169.229.60.23]) by relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA06289 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 00:49:35 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: Netscape Webmail MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Language: en X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Approved-By: istoica@EECS.BERKELEY.EDU Message-ID: <1c8651cd24.1cd241c865@EECS.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 00:49:34 -0700 Reply-To: istoica@EECS.BERKELEY.EDU Sender: ACM ACM SIGCOMM 2002 Executive Committee Mailing List From: istoica@EECS.BERKELEY.EDU Subject: increasing the number of student travel awards? To: SIGCOMM2002EX@ACM.ORG Status: OR We have finished to review the student travel grant applications. The bottomline is that we can award only 22 travel, even though there are significantly more students that would deserve the award; the total number of applications is 63. For comparison, last year around 35 students out of about 40 applicants have received the award. Below please find a detailed explanation with a set of three options that would allow us to increase the number of awards. Please let me know if any of the makes sense to you. The average estimated cost per student is $1140. This includes (1) the student registration ($150), (2) five nights at the hotel ($640 = 5*$128), (3) meals not included in the registration ($50), and the airfare ($300 on the average). Obviously (since we cannot get additional funds) the only way we can increase the number of awards is by reducing the per-student award. Here are three options: 1) We can eliminate the $50 devoted to meals. This will allow us to award an additional grant, thus increasing the number of grants from 22 to 23. 2) Have the students share the room. This would save us up to $320 per student, which would allow us to give 30 grants. There are at least two possibilities to achieve this: a) reimburse each student only $320 for hotel, and thus force them to find roommates. b) we do the reservations for them and pair two of them in each room. 3) Just reimburse the hotel for three days ($384). This would allow us to award up to 28 travel grants. The problem here is that this is inconsistent with the fact that we expect them to stay over Saturday night to get cheap airfares. Please let me know what do you think. Thanks, Ion From owner-sigcomm2002ex@ACM.ORG Thu Jul 11 12:46:18 2002 Return-Path: Received: from mail.acm.org (mail.acm.org [199.222.69.4]) by cs.utexas.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6BHkERL024714 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:46:14 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mail (mail.acm.org [199.222.69.4]) by mail.acm.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA12068; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 13:42:51 -0400 Received: from ACM.ORG by ACM.ORG (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 18308 for SIGCOMM2002EX@ACM.ORG; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 13:42:51 -0400 Approved-By: aterzis@SBCGLOBAL.NET Received: from alias.acm.org (alias.acm.org [199.222.69.90]) by mail.acm.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA14932 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 13:27:25 -0400 Received: from relay1.EECS.Berkeley.EDU ([169.229.60.163]) by alias.acm.org (ACM Email Forwarding Service) with ESMTP id COB73880 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 13:31:08 -0400 Received: from relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (localhost.Berkeley.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by relay1.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA04494 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 10:30:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cs.berkeley.edu (sky.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.168.228]) by relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA11994 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 10:30:16 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <200207111229.g6BCTva24190@nms.lcs.mit.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <3D2DC0AA.72656D69@cs.berkeley.edu> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 10:30:18 -0700 Reply-To: Ion Stoica Sender: ACM ACM SIGCOMM 2002 Executive Committee Mailing List From: Ion Stoica Subject: Re: increasing the number of student travel awards? To: SIGCOMM2002EX@ACM.ORG Status: ORr Thanks all for your feedback and suggestions. Based on your input here is my proposal: - Pay only for three hotel nights, no taxes included ($384=3*$128). If they are willing to share the room then they can stay for five nights; in this case they should also be able to pay for the room tax (i.e., $375 = 2.5*$150). I would very much prefer this variant against simply asking them to share the room, and then reimburse the difference if they cannot find a roommate. Such an alternative would be too risky since it is hard to estimate how many people would not be able to share the room in advance. (BTW, I also shared the room at every conference I attended as a student, and I ask my students to share the rooms as well.) Regarding the airfare I'll suggest them to use Council Travel (www.counciltravel.com) which has special deals for students with no Saturday night stay. - Eliminate the $50 meal - I went to expedia.com and recalculate the the airfares assuming Saturday night stay from New York, Boston, Orlando, St. Louis, Los Angeles and San Francisco; I got an average of $250 per US student. - With these reductions, the estimated cost per US student is about $750, and we would be able to support about 26 students from the NSF money. From the Cisco money we can then support about four international students. In this way we can increase the number of supported students from 22 to 30. A final comment. The transportation from/to the Pittsburgh airport shouldn't be a problem. They can take the 28x shuttle for about $2 each way. Please let me know your comments. Thanks, Ion From istoica@cs.berkeley.edu Thu Jul 11 13:28:38 2002 Return-Path: Received: from relay1.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (relay1.EECS.Berkeley.EDU [169.229.60.163]) by cs.utexas.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6BISZRL004721 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 13:28:35 -0500 (CDT) Received: from relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (localhost.Berkeley.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by relay1.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA09994 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:28:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cs.berkeley.edu (sky.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.168.228]) by relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA14001; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:28:34 -0700 (PDT) Sender: istoica@relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU Message-ID: <3D2DCE51.3DFD539D@cs.berkeley.edu> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:28:33 -0700 From: Ion Stoica X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan CC: prs@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Re: increasing the number of student travel awards? References: <200207111810.g6BIA01Q030075@neverland.cs.utexas.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: ORr Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan wrote: > Thanks Ion, it sounds like a very good plan. > > I personally suggest going a bit higher, at least to $775 per US student. > > since the real total costs the students will incur (excluding meals/shuttle) > is $775 (for sharing room for 5 nights) > and $785+$65 tax (approx $850 for 1 room for 3 nights) > Ok. I'll rise it to $775. > > When will you be able to notify the students? > I'm suppose to notify them by Monday, July 15, and they are supposed to accept/decline the award by July 22. However, I think that I'll be in position to notify them on Sunday. Now thet we know how many students we can support, we (i.e., the student travel awards committee) can do the final decisions. > > Thanks, Chris > > PS - if you go over a couple hundred dollars to make it all work evenly, > either SIGCOMM or SIGCOMM2002 can absorb it. > Great. > > PPS - please send me a copy of the letter you plan to send the students > so that I can make sure we've got all our bases covered. Thanks! > Absolutely. I'll send you a model latter today. Two things: - As far as I understand we should ask them to pay for their registration and then reimburse them, right? If this is the case to whom should they send the registration receipt for reimbursment? - How about the hotel and the airfare. Are we just sending them a check, or reimburse them $665 ($775-$110) on the avergage" Thanks, Ion From istoica@cs.berkeley.edu Thu Jul 11 22:30:32 2002 Return-Path: Received: from relay1.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (relay1.EECS.Berkeley.EDU [169.229.60.163]) by cs.utexas.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6C3UTRL012822 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 22:30:30 -0500 (CDT) Received: from relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (localhost.Berkeley.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by relay1.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA20806 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 20:30:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cs.berkeley.edu (sky.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.168.228]) by relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA25523; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 20:30:28 -0700 (PDT) Sender: istoica@relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU Message-ID: <3D2E4D54.2E6C9F80@cs.berkeley.edu> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 20:30:28 -0700 From: Ion Stoica X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan CC: Peter Steenkiste Subject: Re: acceptance letter References: <200207120315.g6C3FsoK001175@neverland.cs.utexas.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: ORSr Here is a new letter thanks to Chris' input: Dear XXX, We are very pleased to inform you that your application for a travel grant for Sigcomm 2002 has been accepted. We have allocated $$$$ (USD) to cover your expenses. This amount is to cover - The airfare ($$$) - The hotel ($400). This will cover the cost of three nights at the conference hotel. Alternatively you can stay for an extended period of time provided that you will share the room with another student. - The conference registration ($150). Please note that you have to register yourself, and then send the registration receipt together with all the other receipts to get reimbursed. A HARD DEADLINE of July 22th, 2002 at 5:00pm Eastern Time has been set to notify us of your acceptance of this award. If we do not receive your acceptance, the award will immediately go to an alternate candidate. You will soon receive details on how to claim reimbursement. We strongly encourage you to book your flight and reserve your room immediately, to lock in a low rate. Funds beyond the amount awarded may be available in in exceptional cases. Advance payment on the award is possible and you will receive instructions on how to request it. Note, however, that it takes three weeks to process. The committee reviewed a large number of applicants and considered several factors before reaching its final decision. These include, but are not limited to, the following: (a) Students with exceptional track record and strong recommendation from their advisors. (b) Students who are at the middle part of their studies and exposure to Sigcomm would benefit them most. (c) Students who have demonstrated financial hardship. (d) Students who have never attended Sigcomm before. (e) Students who had papers accepted. We would like to extend our appreciation to you and your advisor for participating in this venue. Sincerely, The Student Travel Grant committee Ion Stoica (UC Berkeley) Sally Floyd (ICIR) Ed Knightly (Rice) Srinivasan Seshan (CMU) Karen Sollins (MIT) From istoica@cs.berkeley.edu Fri Jul 12 14:50:20 2002 Return-Path: Received: from relay1.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (relay1.EECS.Berkeley.EDU [169.229.60.163]) by cs.utexas.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6CJoIRL014897 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 14:50:18 -0500 (CDT) Received: from relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (localhost.Berkeley.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by relay1.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA13192 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 12:50:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cs.berkeley.edu (sky.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.168.228]) by relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA06647; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 12:50:15 -0700 (PDT) Sender: istoica@relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU Message-ID: <3D2F32F9.7D951281@cs.berkeley.edu> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 12:50:17 -0700 From: Ion Stoica X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan CC: Peter Steenkiste Subject: Re: acceptance letter References: <200207121425.g6CEPq6J005447@neverland.cs.utexas.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: ORr Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan wrote: > Do you want to say anything about getting cheap travel from that ...council... > site? > Yes, I'll mention this. > > Do you want to put a suggested limit on the airfare (or say that we expect > the airfare to avg around $250????) > Actually, the limit is implicit by substracting the hotel and registration from the total amount. Anyway, I'll put the precise amount in each letter. > > do you want to say anything about sharing rooms? > This is already specified in the bullet about the hotel. Should we emphasize it? I thought they will get the message. - The hotel ($400). This will cover the cost of three nights at the conference hotel. Alternatively you can stay for an extended period of time provided that you will share the room with another student. > > that's all my input; so go ahead; you don't need anymore feedback from me > > (oh, why don't you acknowledge NSF and or Cisco?) > Ok. Ion From istoica@cs.berkeley.edu Fri Jul 12 16:32:34 2002 Return-Path: Received: from relay1.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (relay1.EECS.Berkeley.EDU [169.229.60.163]) by cs.utexas.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6CLWTRL009727 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 16:32:30 -0500 (CDT) Received: from relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (localhost.Berkeley.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by relay1.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA21396 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 14:32:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cs.berkeley.edu (sky.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.168.228]) by relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA09490; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 14:32:28 -0700 (PDT) Sender: istoica@relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU Message-ID: <3D2F4AEC.9D27D89A@cs.berkeley.edu> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 14:32:28 -0700 From: Ion Stoica X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan CC: prs@cs.cmu.edu Subject: international students References: <200207122022.g6CKMxkT007901@neverland.cs.utexas.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: OR Right now it looks like we can give at most four awards to international students. However even in this case the $5K would not cover it. In particular we have two potential awardees from Europe, one from Honk Kong and another one from New Zealand. If we allocate a minimum of $700 for the airfare for the European students, and a minimum of $1000 for the other students we are still $600 short. So my question is: would it be possible to get an extra $600 for the international students? If not, we should probably just award three international students. Thanks, Ion From owner-sigcomm2002ex@ACM.ORG Fri Jul 12 22:21:08 2002 Return-Path: Received: from mail.acm.org (mail.acm.org [199.222.69.4]) by cs.utexas.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6D3L4RL018484 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 22:21:04 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mail (mail.acm.org [199.222.69.4]) by mail.acm.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA21218; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 23:17:34 -0400 Received: from ACM.ORG by ACM.ORG (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 12474 for SIGCOMM2002EX@ACM.ORG; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 23:17:34 -0400 Approved-By: aterzis@SBCGLOBAL.NET Received: from alias.acm.org (alias.acm.org [199.222.69.90]) by mail.acm.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA17338 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 17:51:40 -0400 Received: from relay2.EECS.Berkeley.EDU ([169.229.60.28]) by alias.acm.org (ACM Email Forwarding Service) with ESMTP id COB73880 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 17:55:30 -0400 Received: from relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (localhost.Berkeley.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by relay2.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA15328 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 14:54:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cs.berkeley.edu (sky.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.168.228]) by relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA10190 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 14:54:38 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <200207122022.g6CKMxkT007901@neverland.cs.utexas.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <3D2F5020.4403FC46@cs.berkeley.edu> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 14:54:40 -0700 Reply-To: Ion Stoica Sender: ACM ACM SIGCOMM 2002 Executive Committee Mailing List From: Ion Stoica Subject: awards for international students To: SIGCOMM2002EX@ACM.ORG Status: ORr Right now it looks like we can give at most four awards to international students. However even in this case the $5K would not cover it. We have two potential awardees from Europe, one from Asia, and another one from New Zealand. Even if we allocate a minimum of $700 for the airfare for the European students, and a minimum of $1000 for the other two students we are still $600 short. So my question is: would it be possible to get an extra $600 for the international students? If not, we should probably just award three international students. Thanks, Ion From istoica@EECS.Berkeley.EDU Fri Jul 12 23:57:26 2002 Return-Path: Received: from relay2.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (relay2.EECS.Berkeley.EDU [169.229.60.28]) by cs.utexas.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6D4vNRL006871 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 23:57:23 -0500 (CDT) Received: from relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (localhost.Berkeley.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by relay2.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA08432 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 21:57:21 -0700 (PDT) From: istoica@EECS.Berkeley.EDU Received: from EECS.Berkeley.EDU (nsmail@imap4.CS.Berkeley.EDU [169.229.60.23]) by relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA16749 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 21:57:22 -0700 (PDT) To: "Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan" Message-ID: <1db7718a0c.18a0c1db77@EECS.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 00:57:20 -0400 X-Mailer: Netscape Webmail MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Language: en Subject: Re: awards for international students X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: ORr Great! Thanks, Ion ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan" Date: Saturday, July 13, 2002 0:43 am Subject: Re: awards for international students > I'm in favor of the SIG donating this small amount of money. > Chris > > #Right now it looks like we can give at most four awards to > #international students. However even in this case the $5K > #would not cover it. We have two potential awardees > #from Europe, one from Asia, and another one from New > #Zealand. Even if we allocate a minimum of $700 for the airfare > #for the European students, and a minimum of $1000 for the > #other two students we are still $600 short. So my question is: > #would it be possible to get an extra $600 for the international > #students? If not, we should probably just award three > #international students. Thanks, > # > #Ion > > > -- > Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan I'm going to have a "YEAR of > the dragon"+2 > Computer Sciences, TAY2.124(C0500) My email addresses are: > chris@cs.utexas.eduThe University of Texas at Austin or > dragon@cs.utexas.eduAustin, TX 78712-1188 URL: > www.cs.utexas.edu/users/chris/ > +1 512 471 9546 fax: (471 8885) Office: TAY 4.136 (pls fedex to > TAY 2.124) > From istoica@EECS.Berkeley.EDU Sat Jul 13 21:36:22 2002 Return-Path: Received: from relay2.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (relay2.EECS.Berkeley.EDU [169.229.60.28]) by cs.utexas.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6E2aIRL008619 for ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 21:36:19 -0500 (CDT) Received: from relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (localhost.Berkeley.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by relay2.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA11158 for ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 19:36:16 -0700 (PDT) From: istoica@EECS.Berkeley.EDU Received: from EECS.Berkeley.EDU (nsmail@imap4.CS.Berkeley.EDU [169.229.60.23]) by relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA21504; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 19:36:17 -0700 (PDT) To: Craig Partridge Cc: "Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan" Message-ID: <1d05920c01.20c011d059@EECS.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 22:36:15 -0400 X-Mailer: Netscape Webmail MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Language: en Subject: Re: awards for international students X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: ORr Actually, even if we award only three students, we are well over $3750. Anyway, here are the calculations. If we award three students then we have one from Europe, one from New Zealand, and one from Hong Kong. An award is about $550 (hotel and registration) + airfare If we estimate an $800 airfare from Europe $1000 from Asia and $1200 from New Zealand then we get a total of: $4650. Several comments: 1. My original calculations assumed a $700 airfare from Europe and $1000 from Asia/New Zealand, but I guess the above figures are a little bit more realistic. 2. It is extremely difficult to estimate airfares from other countries to US. For instance, using expedia.com, I got an minimum airfare of $1000 from Europe, $1400 from Hong Kong, and $2300 from New Zealand! However these estimates are very unreliable, as buying the ticket from a foreign country to US is in general much cheaper. (For instance if you fly from Bucharest (Romania) to US, and if you buy the ticket in Romania (even from big airline companies such as Lufthansa and KLM), the price of the ticket is almost half the one advertised by expedia.com) 3. If we were to give a fourth award that would be for another student for Europe, which will cost about $1350. If we decide to award four students, then another possibility would be to go with the initial airfare estimations ( $700 from Europe, and $1000 from Asia) which will lead us to a total of $5600. Finally, if the $4650 to cover the three awards is too much, with the more aggressive airfare estimates we need only $4350. Please let me know what you decide. Thanks very much for your help, Ion ----- Original Message ----- From: Craig Partridge Date: Saturday, July 13, 2002 5:34 pm Subject: Re: awards for international students > > Chris -- thanks for catching this -- I thought Ion was doing the > computationwith the reduced $5K. > > So, Ion, can you send us the actual numbers and we'll figure out > what to > do for the students? > > Craig > > In message <200207131404.g6DE4llF014358@neverland.cs.utexas.edu>, > "Chris Edmond > son-Yurkanan" writes: > > >something just dawned on me.... > > > >when calculating the amt that you are going over, you should use > >the $3750 as your max (since the other 25% was for subsidizing > >the students real registration costs - something new this year that > >Craig proposed, that you may not have understood). > > > >So, we're really $2k over the budget... > >which if you have a strong feeling about the 4th student, then > >go for it... otherwise just 3. > > > >Thanks, Chris > >#Great! Thanks, > ># > >#Ion > ># > >#----- Original Message ----- > >#From: "Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan" > >#Date: Saturday, July 13, 2002 0:43 am > >#Subject: Re: awards for international students > ># > >#> I'm in favor of the SIG donating this small amount of money. > >#> Chris > >#> > >#> #Right now it looks like we can give at most four awards to > >#> #international students. However even in this case the $5K > >#> #would not cover it. We have two potential awardees > >#> #from Europe, one from Asia, and another one from New > >#> #Zealand. Even if we allocate a minimum of $700 for the airfare > >#> #for the European students, and a minimum of $1000 for the > >#> #other two students we are still $600 short. So my question is: > >#> #would it be possible to get an extra $600 for the international > >#> #students? If not, we should probably just award three > >#> #international students. Thanks, > >#> # > >#> #Ion > >#> > >#> > >#> -- > >#> Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan I'm going to have a "YEAR > of > >#> the dragon"+2 > >#> Computer Sciences, TAY2.124(C0500) My email addresses are: > >#> chris@cs.utexas.eduThe University of Texas at Austin or > >#> dragon@cs.utexas.eduAustin, TX 78712-1188 URL: > >#> www.cs.utexas.edu/users/chris/ > >#> +1 512 471 9546 fax: (471 8885) Office: TAY 4.136 (pls > fedex to > >#> TAY 2.124) > >#> > ># > > > > > >-- > >Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan I'm going to have a "YEAR of > the dragon"+2 > >Computer Sciences, TAY2.124(C0500) My email addresses are: > chris@cs.utexas.edu>The University of Texas at Austin or > dragon@cs.utexas.edu>Austin, TX 78712-1188 URL: > www.cs.utexas.edu/users/chris/ > >+1 512 471 9546 fax: (471 8885) Office: TAY 4.136 (pls fedex > to TAY 2.124) > From istoica@cs.berkeley.edu Sun Jul 14 21:54:15 2002 Return-Path: Received: from relay1.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (relay1.EECS.Berkeley.EDU [169.229.60.163]) by cs.utexas.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6F2sDRL008810 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 21:54:13 -0500 (CDT) Received: from relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (localhost.Berkeley.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by relay1.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA23103 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 19:54:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cs.berkeley.edu (sky.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.168.228]) by relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA27623 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 19:54:12 -0700 (PDT) Sender: istoica@relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU Message-ID: <3D323954.54A24AFA@cs.berkeley.edu> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 19:54:12 -0700 From: Ion Stoica X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan Subject: Re: awards for international students References: <200207142045.g6EKjdCj029842@neverland.cs.utexas.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: OR Thanks Chris, Ion Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan wrote: > I am inclined to fund 4 intl students (at a cost to the SIG of $2k). > Chris > > # > #Actually, even if we award only three > #students, we are well over $3750. > #Anyway, here are the calculations. > # > #If we award three students then we have one > #from Europe, one from New Zealand, and one from > #Hong Kong. An award is about > # > #$550 (hotel and registration) + airfare > # > #If we estimate an $800 airfare from Europe > #$1000 from Asia and $1200 from New Zealand > #then we get a total of: $4650. > # > #Several comments: > # > #1. My original calculations > #assumed a $700 airfare from Europe and > #$1000 from Asia/New Zealand, but I guess > #the above figures are a little bit > #more realistic. > # > #2. It is extremely difficult to estimate > #airfares from other countries to US. For > #instance, using expedia.com, I got an > #minimum airfare of $1000 from Europe, > #$1400 from Hong Kong, and $2300 from > #New Zealand! However these estimates are > #very unreliable, as buying the ticket from > #a foreign country to US is in general much > #cheaper. (For instance if you fly from > #Bucharest (Romania) to US, and if you buy > #the ticket in Romania (even from big > #airline companies such as Lufthansa and KLM), > #the price of the ticket is almost half the one > #advertised by expedia.com) > # > #3. If we were to give a fourth award that would > #be for another student for Europe, which will > #cost about $1350. If we decide to award four > #students, then another possibility would be > #to go with the initial airfare estimations ( > #$700 from Europe, and $1000 from Asia) which > #will lead us to a total of $5600. > # > #Finally, if the $4650 to cover the three awards > #is too much, with the more aggressive airfare > #estimates we need only $4350. > # > #Please let me know what you decide. > #Thanks very much for your help, > # > #Ion > # > # > #----- Original Message ----- > #From: Craig Partridge > #Date: Saturday, July 13, 2002 5:34 pm > #Subject: Re: awards for international students > # > #> > #> Chris -- thanks for catching this -- I thought Ion was doing the > #> computationwith the reduced $5K. > #> > #> So, Ion, can you send us the actual numbers and we'll figure out > #> what to > #> do for the students? > #> > #> Craig > #> > #> In message <200207131404.g6DE4llF014358@neverland.cs.utexas.edu>, > #> "Chris Edmond > #> son-Yurkanan" writes: > #> > #> >something just dawned on me.... > #> > > #> >when calculating the amt that you are going over, you should use > #> >the $3750 as your max (since the other 25% was for subsidizing > #> >the students real registration costs - something new this year that > #> >Craig proposed, that you may not have understood). > #> > > #> >So, we're really $2k over the budget... > #> >which if you have a strong feeling about the 4th student, then > #> >go for it... otherwise just 3. > #> > > #> >Thanks, Chris > #> >#Great! Thanks, > #> ># > #> >#Ion > #> ># > #> >#----- Original Message ----- > #> >#From: "Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan" > #> >#Date: Saturday, July 13, 2002 0:43 am > #> >#Subject: Re: awards for international students > #> ># > #> >#> I'm in favor of the SIG donating this small amount of money. > #> >#> Chris > #> >#> > #> >#> #Right now it looks like we can give at most four awards to > #> >#> #international students. However even in this case the $5K > #> >#> #would not cover it. We have two potential awardees > #> >#> #from Europe, one from Asia, and another one from New > #> >#> #Zealand. Even if we allocate a minimum of $700 for the airfare > #> >#> #for the European students, and a minimum of $1000 for the > #> >#> #other two students we are still $600 short. So my question is: > #> >#> #would it be possible to get an extra $600 for the international > #> >#> #students? If not, we should probably just award three > #> >#> #international students. Thanks, > #> >#> # > #> >#> #Ion > #> >#> > #> >#> > #> >#> -- > #> >#> Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan I'm going to have a "YEAR > #> of > #> >#> the dragon"+2 > #> >#> Computer Sciences, TAY2.124(C0500) My email addresses are: > #> >#> chris@cs.utexas.eduThe University of Texas at Austin or > #> >#> dragon@cs.utexas.eduAustin, TX 78712-1188 URL: > #> >#> www.cs.utexas.edu/users/chris/ > #> >#> +1 512 471 9546 fax: (471 8885) Office: TAY 4.136 (pls > #> fedex to > #> >#> TAY 2.124) > #> >#> > #> ># > #> > > #> > > #> >-- > #> >Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan I'm going to have a "YEAR of > #> the dragon"+2 > #> >Computer Sciences, TAY2.124(C0500) My email addresses are: > #> chris@cs.utexas.edu>The University of Texas at Austin or > #> dragon@cs.utexas.edu>Austin, TX 78712-1188 URL: > #> www.cs.utexas.edu/users/chris/ > #> >+1 512 471 9546 fax: (471 8885) Office: TAY 4.136 (pls fedex > #> to TAY 2.124) > #> > # > > -- > Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan I'm going to have a "YEAR of the dragon"+2 > Computer Sciences, TAY2.124(C0500) My email addresses are: chris@cs.utexas.edu > The University of Texas at Austin or dragon@cs.utexas.edu > Austin, TX 78712-1188 URL: www.cs.utexas.edu/users/chris/ > +1 512 471 9546 fax: (471 8885) Office: TAY 4.136 (pls fedex to TAY 2.124) From istoica@cs.berkeley.edu Mon Jul 15 19:39:30 2002 Return-Path: Received: from relay2.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (relay2.EECS.Berkeley.EDU [169.229.60.28]) by cs.utexas.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6G0dRRL000745 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 19:39:27 -0500 (CDT) Received: from relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (localhost.Berkeley.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by relay2.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA06780 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 17:39:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cs.berkeley.edu (sky.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.168.228]) by relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA16686; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 17:39:25 -0700 (PDT) Sender: istoica@relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU Message-ID: <3D336B3E.FA689A1E@cs.berkeley.edu> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 17:39:26 -0700 From: Ion Stoica X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Partridge , Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan , touch@isi.edu, prs@cs.cmu.edu Subject: student travel grants -- quick update References: <200207150155.g6F1tn0l022822@aland.bbn.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: OR I've just finished to send all the acceptance e-mails. In the end, we have awarded 25 US students and 4 international students. The awards of the US students represent $19770 ($230 less than the 20K we had from NSF :-), while the awards of the international students represent $6950 (many thanks to Chris and Craig for the extra money). In each case, I used the best airfare estimate I could get on the web, so I hope we've optimized the use of money as much as we could. I'll send you a more detailed report tomorrow. Thanks all for your help and support, Ion From owner-sigcomm2002ex@ACM.ORG Tue Jul 16 20:38:59 2002 Return-Path: Received: from mail.acm.org (mail.acm.org [199.222.69.4]) by cs.utexas.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6H1cuRL006337 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 20:38:56 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mail (mail.acm.org [199.222.69.4]) by mail.acm.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA14830; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 21:34:53 -0400 Received: from ACM.ORG by ACM.ORG (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 23137 for SIGCOMM2002EX@ACM.ORG; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 21:34:53 -0400 Received: from alias.acm.org (alias.acm.org [199.222.69.90]) by mail.acm.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA20758 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 21:34:53 -0400 Received: from relay1.EECS.Berkeley.EDU ([169.229.60.163]) by alias.acm.org (ACM Email Forwarding Service) with ESMTP id COB73880 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 21:38:59 -0400 Received: from relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (localhost.Berkeley.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by relay1.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA23652 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:36:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from EECS.Berkeley.EDU (nsmail@imap4.CS.Berkeley.EDU [169.229.60.23]) by relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA11886 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:36:49 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: Netscape Webmail MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Language: en X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Approved-By: istoica@EECS.BERKELEY.EDU Message-ID: <56c0359aa7.59aa756c03@EECS.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 21:36:48 -0400 Reply-To: istoica@EECS.BERKELEY.EDU Sender: ACM ACM SIGCOMM 2002 Executive Committee Mailing List From: istoica@EECS.BERKELEY.EDU Subject: status: student travel awards To: SIGCOMM2002EX@ACM.ORG Status: ORp Since I'll not be able to particpate in the teleconference tomorrow, here is a quick report on the student travel awards: 1. This year we received 63 applications out of which 16 were from international students. 2. We were able to award 25 US students and only four international students. 3. All receipients were announced yesterday (7/15). They have until Friday (7/18) to accept the awards. 4. In terms of diversity, I think we did quite well. Out of the 29 students who were awarded, seven are women. (Actually, all women who applyed have received awards.) In addition, the awardees came from 26 different institutions. 5. The estimated cost for the US awards is $19,970 which should be covered by the NSF grant (thanks to Peter for obtaining this grant!). The total cost of the international awards is about $6,950 (thanks to Craig and Chris for suplementing the CISCO founding!) Please let me know if you have any questions. Ion From owner-sigcomm2002ex@ACM.ORG Wed Jul 17 10:51:23 2002 Return-Path: Received: from mail.acm.org (mail.acm.org [199.222.69.4]) by cs.utexas.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6HFpKRL003078 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 10:51:20 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mail (mail.acm.org [199.222.69.4]) by mail.acm.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA20168; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 11:47:33 -0400 Received: from ACM.ORG by ACM.ORG (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 24735 for SIGCOMM2002EX@ACM.ORG; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 11:47:33 -0400 Received: from alias2.acm.org (alias2.acm.org [199.222.69.92]) by mail.acm.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA14154 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 11:47:33 -0400 Received: from relay1.EECS.Berkeley.EDU ([169.229.60.163]) by alias2.acm.org (ACM Email Forwarding Service) with ESMTP id CRY73883 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 11:51:39 -0400 Received: from relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (localhost.Berkeley.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by relay1.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA28771 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 08:50:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from EECS.Berkeley.EDU (nsmail@imap4.CS.Berkeley.EDU [169.229.60.23]) by relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA17861 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 08:50:55 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: Netscape Webmail MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Language: en X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Approved-By: istoica@EECS.BERKELEY.EDU Message-ID: <5d7bd5d4d1.5d4d15d7bd@EECS.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 11:50:54 -0400 Reply-To: istoica@EECS.BERKELEY.EDU Sender: ACM ACM SIGCOMM 2002 Executive Committee Mailing List From: istoica@EECS.BERKELEY.EDU Subject: Re: status: student travel awards To: SIGCOMM2002EX@ACM.ORG Status: OR Yes, for all practical proposes these estimates should be viewed as upperbounds. Students will not get a check in the amount specified, but they will be reimbursed only for the airfare (up to the specified amount for airfare), hotel (up to $400), registration ($150), and nothing else. Also, this year we made some shortcuts to increase the number of awards. In particular: - We cover only three nights at the hotel, instead of five as initially proposed. If they have to stay more (and they have to stay more if they attend tutorials or need to stay over Saturday night) they are supposed to share the room. - We have eliminated the $50 meals - With respect to the airfares we used the cheapest airfare that we could find on the web in _each_ case. In most of the cases we used expedia.com to get these estimates, but in other cases in which the figures were too high we did a more thorough search. For instance for China we used flychina.com, and for New Zealand we used a combination between the cheapest fair to LA and then from LA to Pittsburgh. In _all_ cases we assumed a Saturday night stayover. - Finally, note that in the case of international students the initial founds were almost doubled by SIGCOMM (from $3.75K to $6.95K) Finally, if anyone has any other ideas of how to further optimize the use of travel grant money please send these ideas to me. I'll centralize them and make them available to the future travel grant committees. Thanks, Ion ----- Original Message ----- From: Peter Steenkiste Date: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 8:31 am Subject: Re: status: student travel awards > I think Ion made those to be "up to" limits in the letters he sent > out, > Peter > > > At 09:34 AM 7/17/2002 +0100, Jon Crowcroft wrote: > >for future reference... > > > >discussions this with some europeans, can i say that it mght be a > >bit better to award "up to" some amount based on > >ticket/registration/accommadation costs/receipts...rather than a > flat amount > > > >student air fare to pittsburgh from london can be as low as 300$... > > > >the money could be made go further... > > > >In message <56c0359aa7.59aa756c03@EECS.Berkeley.EDU>, > >istoica@EECS.Berkeley.EDU > > typed: > > > > >>Since I'll not be able to particpate in the teleconference > tomorrow,> >>here is a quick report on the student travel awards: > > >> > > >>1. This year we received 63 applications out of which 16 were > from> >>international students. > > >> > > >>2. We were able to award 25 US students and only four > international> >>students. > > >> > > >>3. All receipients were announced yesterday (7/15). They have > until> >>Friday (7/18) to accept the awards. > > >> > > >>4. In terms of diversity, I think we did quite well. Out of > the 29 > > >>students who were awarded, seven are women. (Actually, all > women who > > >>applyed have received awards.) In addition, the awardees came > from 26 > > >>different institutions. > > >> > > >>5. The estimated cost for the US awards is $19,970 which > should be > > >>covered by the NSF grant (thanks to Peter for obtaining this > > >>grant!). The total cost of the international awards is about > $6,950> >>(thanks to Craig and Chris for suplementing the CISCO > founding!)> >> > > >>Please let me know if you have any questions. > > >> > > >>Ion > > > > cheers > > > > jon > From istoica@cs.berkeley.edu Wed Jul 17 11:44:33 2002 Return-Path: Received: from relay1.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (relay1.EECS.Berkeley.EDU [169.229.60.163]) by cs.utexas.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6HGiPRL017536 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 11:44:26 -0500 (CDT) Received: from relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (localhost.Berkeley.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by relay1.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA03479 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 09:44:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cs.berkeley.edu (sky.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.168.228]) by relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA19170; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 09:44:23 -0700 (PDT) Sender: istoica@relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU Message-ID: <3D359EE7.7FD1A6A7@cs.berkeley.edu> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 09:44:23 -0700 From: Ion Stoica X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Partridge CC: chris@cs.utexas.edu, prs@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Re: travel grant nit References: <200207170306.g6H36q0l032710@aland.bbn.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: OR I we need their SSNs only after conference, I think that the most reliable way to obtain these SSNs is to ask students to provide them when they are reimbursed. Peter, would it be possible to add an entry for SSN to the reimbursement form? Thanks very much, Ion Craig Partridge wrote: > Let's ask, in case some ACM person demands them post conference. > > In message <3D34554F.E1BF1AEF@cs.berkeley.edu>, Ion Stoica writes: > > >Craig, > > > >In the light of the subsequent e-mails it seems that we do not need > >the SSNs for the US students since NSF doesn't require them. > >Do you still want me to ask them their SSN. This wouldn't be > >a problem. > > > >Ion > > > >Craig Partridge wrote: > > > >> I would ask now -- it simplifies things. > >> > >> Thanks! > >> > >> In message <411974494d.4494d41197@EECS.Berkeley.EDU>, istoica@EECS.Berkeley. > >EDU > >> writes: > >> > >> >Do we need their ssn now, or when they get reimbursed? > >> >If we need it now, I can send them an e-mail asking > >> >for it. > >> > > >> >Ion > >> > > >> >----- Original Message ----- > >> >From: Craig Partridge > >> >Date: Monday, July 15, 2002 3:06 pm > >> >Subject: travel grant nit > >> > > >> >> We need social security numbers for all US recipients. There's > >> >> also some > >> >> paperwork required for non-US recipients but I'm travelling and don't > >> >> have it handy. > >> >> > >> >> Craig > >> >> > >> > > > From istoica@cs.berkeley.edu Mon Jul 22 12:40:50 2002 Return-Path: Received: from relay2.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (relay2.EECS.Berkeley.EDU [169.229.60.28]) by cs.utexas.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6MHelRL005262 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 12:40:47 -0500 (CDT) Received: from relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (localhost.Berkeley.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by relay2.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA22417 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 10:40:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cs.berkeley.edu (sky.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.168.228]) by relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA02409; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 10:40:44 -0700 (PDT) Sender: istoica@relay3.EECS.Berkeley.EDU Message-ID: <3D3C439D.873E0FB9@cs.berkeley.edu> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 10:40:45 -0700 From: Ion Stoica X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Erin Dolan CC: "'Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan'" , prs@cs.cmu.edu, craig@aland.bbn.com Subject: list of international students receiving SIGCOMM'02 travel grants References: <95537E2AB3BDD311B6FD00A0C9A31A5105D7B7EC@hq.acm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: OR Erin, Below please find the list of international students who were awarded SIGCOMM student travel grants. The amount of each award consists of (1) conference registration ($150), (2) three days at the hotel ($400), and (3) airfare. For example, if the award is $1350, then the airfare is $800 = $1350 - $400- $150. The total amount of all awards is $6,950. Please note that the telephone and fax numbers of Aun are missing, and I also do not know whether Rajiv is a SIGCOMM member or not. I'll send you this information as soon as I get it. Please let me know if you need any other information from me for reimbursement purposes. Thanks, Ion List of international students that have received SIGCOMM'02 travel awards -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Rajiv Chakravorty, Award: $1350 Computer Laboratory, Bill (William) Gates Building, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FD phone: +44 (01223) 763638 fax: +44 (01223) 334678 e-mail: Rajiv.Chakravorty@cl.cam.ac.uk, award: $1350 2. Aun Haider, Award: $2400, ACM member (not sure about SIGCOMM member) Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engg, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. e-mail: hai22@it.canterbury.ac.nz 3. Danica Vukadinovic, Award: $1400, not SIGCOMM member TIK Institute ETH Zurich Gloriastrasse 35 CH-8092 Zurich Switzerland phone: +41-1-6327358 fax: +41-1-6321036 e-mail: vukadin@tik.ee.ethz.ch 4. Yang Yang, Award: $1800, not SIGCOMM memeber Department of Information Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, Hong Kong Tel: +852 2609 8493 Fax: +852 2603 5032 e-mail: yyang9@ie.cuhk.edu.hk