[Haskell] Mentoring workshop @ ICFP

[Stephanie Weirich]

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)