VLDB 2019 Travel Support Application - Applicant Form
Dear Applicant,

The travel grants provide financial support to students and faculty affiliated with universities with limited funding opportunities. Awards have a strong focus on universities in developing countries to attend the VLDB 2019 conference in Los Angeles, California - August 26-30, 2019 (http://vldb.org/2019).

The long-term goal of the program is to encourage talented young scientists to pursue a career in database research. The VLDB Travel Support Program provides 10 grants funded by the VLDB Endowment SPEND Committee. These will allow free registration and provide an additional amount of US$1,500 toward other costs, such as travel and lodging. Recipients of the travel support are responsible for their own travel arrangements, including health insurance, if necessary.

Additionally, the National Science Foundation NSF supports travel for US-based students (enrolled in a US university). The support will be similar in nature to the SPEND Committee grants - it will provide up to US$1,500 towards travel, lodging, and registration. Please note that successful applicants of the NSF-funded travel support are obliged to use US-flag airline carriers for traveling and will be required to deliver a short written report after the conference.


ELIGIBILITY AND SELECTION CRITERIA

For VLDB SPEND Committee grants:

Applicants must be full-time students in good standing (graduate or undergraduate), or postdoctoral fellows/researchers, or faculty members who are either

  *   affiliated with universities that do not already have considerable presence at VLDB conferences
or
  *   have a paper at the conference (or associated events).

For NSF-funded travel support:

Applicants must be US full-time students in good standing (graduate or undergraduate) who are either

  *   affiliated with US-universities that do not already have considerable presence at VLDB conferences
or
  *   have a paper at the conference (or associated events).

Applicants for either of the offered travel support must explicitly state that they do not have any other funding to attend. Preference will be given to applicants who demonstrate keen interest in database research and are from regions that are under-represented in the database community; presenting a paper accepted at the main conference or the workshops in VLDB 2019 is welcome but not mandatory.

APPLICATION PROCESS

Applicants should fill in the form below by June 9th, 2019. Applicants must also have a nominator (faculty advisor for student applicants, or senior faculty member or department head for faculty applicants), who must fill in the nominator form following the link: https://forms.gle/77VGWPgsX8qSeJ348

Additionally, nominators are kindly asked to send an extra email from their official email-account to: vldbtravelgrant@gmail.com before June 9th, 2019 with the subject line of the email being "VLDB 2019 Travel Support Nomination for " in which they confirm their nomination of the applicant.

Should you have any problems with opening the links or filling in the forms, please contact us via: vldbtravelgrant@gmail.com Please note: Applications of US students will be automatically assessed also for the NSF-funded travel grant. US-students do not need to follow a separate application process.

Selected candidates will be informed by June 24th, 2019. Persons applying for the VLDB travel support are advised to not register before hearing from us (or by July 15th, 2019, if for some reason you don’t hear from us by then), since the travel support includes free registration; note that the early registration deadline is July 15th, 2019.

Bin Cui, Wolfgang Lehner, Sharad Mehrotra, Felix Naumann
SPEND Committee VLDB Endowment



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Your email address (type it in carefully or copy-paste it from your email reader to make sure there are no errors). *
Your name *
Your gender *
For US-based students, are you a member of at least one of the following groups: women, people with disabilities, and underrepresented minorities, namely African Americans, American Indians including Native Alaskans, Hispanics and Native Pacific Islanders?
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Your country of residence *
Your institution *
Your department or major area *
E,g. CS, EE, ..
Your area of specialization (if applicable)
Are you a full-time student or a faculty member (you must be one of the two to qualify for the fellowship) *
If you are a student give the program you are enrolled in (PhD/Masters/Bachelors)
If you are a faculty member, give your current position and number of years as faculty member
Do you have a paper to be presented at VLDB 2019 (in any track/workshop) *
Did you submit a paper to VLDB 2019 (in any track/workshop) *
If your answer to either of the previous questions was yes, please give details of all your submissions to/presentations at VLDB 2019, including for each paper, the track/workshop, acceptance status, title, and full list of authors
Please specify (very briefly) any other publications/fellowships/awards/honors earned which may help us in making a decision.  Limit 400 characters; if you have more information provide a Web link to your CV instead.
List all other conferences you have attended (if any) in the past 3 years.
Please specify the total estimated cost for attending VLDB 2019, in US dollars; do NOT include cost of registration since that is included in the fellowships.   *
Please give a brief breakup of the estimated cost above (travel, hotel, visa, food, ...).  When computing accommodation cost, please use the cheapest mode of accommodation listed on the conference page, and shared rooms with people you know if feasible. *
Please indicate how much funds (in US dollars) you can get from other sources, such as research grants of your advisor, travel support from your university or department, support from other fellowships that you can use, etc. *
Name of Nominator *
Email of nominator (make sure the nominator sends email from the email address mentioned here) *
Explain very briefly (600 characters or less) the reasons you are interested in database research *
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