Student support

Student participants of UM2007 have a number of options for financial support, as explained below. Additional sources for support are being sought for students not covered by any of these options. Please, note that students selected for support may be asked to spend some fraction of their time onsite helping the organizing committee as student volunteers. Applications for student support are going to be accepted until Friday, March 16.

UM Inc.

UM Inc. will also support students. Priority will be given to authors of papers in the Doctoral Consortium, the main conference or even the Workshops. For more information please contact George Magoulas.

NSF

The United States National Science Foundation (NSF) is providing travel support for students who are currently enrolled fulltime at a US education institution. Preference will be given to students who are authors of conference papers. If interested, please email Kurt VanLehn your (1) vita (2) roles in the conference (e.g., author, attendee, reviewer, etc.) and (3) a description of your financial circumstances, and in particular, whether your department or advisor can provide partial support (e.g., matching funds).

Microsoft

Part of the Microsoft sponsorship for the conference will be used to support students presenting a paper in the Doctoral Consortium. For more information please contact George Magoulas.

PASCAL

The PASCAL Conference and Workshop Attendance Programme provides support to students affiliated to PASCAL sites. For further information please refer to the PASCAL Web site: http://www.pascalnetwork.org/Programmes/CA/.

EETN

The Hellenic AI society (EETN) will provide partial support to 2 student members of the EETN. For more information, please contact Ilias Maglogiannis.

James Chen Awards

There will be 2 James Chen awards (USD 1000 each) for the best student papers.