*** Application deadline fast approaching: MAY 31, 2010 ***

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                        CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

         DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM and TRAVEL ASSISTANCE, COMPSUST'10


*Eligibility* : graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and
                junior researchers, including junior faculty

*Location* : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

*Dates*    : June 28-30, 2010

*Webpage*  : http://www.computational-sustainability.org/compsust10/DC.php
             http://www.computational-sustainability.org/compsust10

CompSust'10, the 2nd International Conference on Computational
Sustainability, will focus on computational methods for balancing
environmental, economic, and societal needs for a sustainable future.
Through talks, discussions, poster sessions, and workshops, the
conference program will investigate the major problem domains that
impact global sustainability, those technologies and processes that
offer the greatest opportunity to increase sustainability in these
domains, and the fundamental computational methods that support these
technologies and processes. Participants will include representatives
from national and international research institutions and government
agencies.

The Doctoral Consortium is being organized as part of the conference
in order to encourage participation by and provide partial travel
funding for eligible graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and
junior researchers, including junior faculty. The Doctoral Consortium
will feature a session in which accepted graduate students and post
docs participate as presenters, while junior researchers participate
as mentors and observers.


** IMPORTANT DATES **

Application deadline       :  May 31, 2010
Notification of acceptance :  June 15, 2010


** HOW TO APPLY **

Those interested in participating should provide:

  1) a cover letter explaining why they want to attend,
  
  2) a statement of financial need, and

  3) an extended abstract of 2 pages maximum, in .pdf format,
     summarizing their relevant research.

Cover letters, need statements and extended abstracts should be
emailed with the subject line "CompSust10 DC Application" to
compsust10@computational-sustainability.org .


** SELECTION CRITERIA **

Submissions will be selected based on novelty and technical merit,
relevance to conference goals and topics, research and geographic
diversity, and financial need.  For students, preference will be given
to those far enough along to have formulated their dissertation topic.

The expectation is that these funds are for the support of
participants from U.S. institutions.  In exceptional cases, we will
consider support for foreign participants as well; however, we will
limit this number to no more than three participants.  In addition, we
will rigorously maintain the requirement that air travel will only be
reimbursed if the participant uses a U.S. air carrier.


** CONTACT INFORMATION **

If you have questions, please contact the Doctoral Consortium Chair,
Ashish Sabharwal, either at compsust10@computational-sustainability.org
or directly at sabhar at cs dot cornell dot edu.


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