[TYPES/announce] PLMW at POPL19: Call for Scholarship Applications

[Michael Greenberg]

CALL FOR SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS (Deadline: October 30!)


ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop, Lisbon Portugal


Tuesday, January 15, 2019


Co-located with POPL 2019


Web page: https://popl19.sigplan.org/track/PLMW-2019-papers


After the resounding success of the first seven Programming Languages 
Mentoring Workshops at POPL 2012-2018 we proudly announce the 8th 
SIGPLAN Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop (PLMW), co-located with 
POPL 2019 and organised by Justin Hsu, Bernardo Toninho, Nobuko Yoshida, 
and Steve Zdancewic.


The purpose of this mentoring workshop is to encourage graduate students 
and senior undergraduate students to pursue careers in programming 
language research. This workshop will bring together world leaders in 
programming languages research and teaching from academia and industry 
to provide (a) technical sessions on cutting-edge PL research and (b) 
mentoring sessions on how to prepare for a research career. The workshop 
will engage students in a process of imagining how they might contribute 
to our research community.


We especially encourage women and underrepresented minority students, 
and people with disabilities to attend PLMW.


This workshop is part of the activities surrounding POPL, the Symposium 
on Principles of Programming Languages, and takes place the day before 
the main conference. One goal of the workshop is to make the POPL 
conference more accessible to newcomers. We hope that participants will 
stay through the entire conference.


A number of sponsors (listed below) have generously donated scholarship 
funds for qualified students to attend PLMW. These scholarships should 
cover reasonable expenses (airfare, hotel, and registration fees) for 
attendance at both the workshop and the POPL conference.


Students attending this year will get one year free student membership 
of SIGPLAN, unless they prefer to opt out during their application.


The workshop registration is open to all. Students with alternative 
sources of funding are welcome as well.


APPLICATION for PLMW scholarship:


The scholarship application can be accessed at the following URL:


https://goo.gl/forms/PlJWPTl1Nkh7VBAn1



The deadline for full consideration of funding is Tuesday, OCTOBER 30. 
Selected participants will be notified by NOVEMBER 9.


Confirmed speakers (so far):
* Michael Hicks, University of Maryland
* Catuscia Palamidessi, INRIA Saclay
* Frank Pfenning, Carnegie Mellon University


Confirmed sponsors (so far):
* An Anonymous Donor
* NSF
* ACM SIGPLAN