DIMACS Graduate Student Awards Page - Student-Initiated Research Projects

Preference will be given to projects that are related to current DIMACS Special Focus topics and projects. DIMACS Research projects include: Sensor management for nuclear detection (http://dydan.rutgers.edu/Research/Nuclear); Algorithms for port security (http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/PortofEntry/); Algorithmic decision theory ; Data analytics (http://ccicada.rutgers.edu) ; and projects related to our new Command, Control, and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis (CCICADA) (http://ccicada.rutgers.edu). Applications in other areas will be accepted and awards will be made as funding permits.

Application deadline: For Winter 2009-2010 awards, applications are due no later than Wednesday, November 18, 2009.

Please use the attached form to submit an application.

We also have opportunities for non-local students (outside Princeton and Rutgers) to enable them to participate in the life of the center. Non-local students can participate through our Graduate Student Fellowship Program for Non-local Students and through Graduate Student Stipends to Attend Workshops.

If you have any questions about this program, please contact Isha Deen-Cole at DIMACS

Application Procedure

• DEADLINE: For Winter 2009-2010 awards, applications are due no later than Wednesday, November 18, 2009
• HOW AND WHERE TO SUBMIT APPLICATIONS:
  • Please submit the following form and have a faculty recommendation sent by email (PDF highly preferred, but Postscript or plain ASCII also accepted) to: ishacole@dimacs.rutgers.edu
  • Please submit an unofficial transcript by mail to

    Graduate Student Projects

    DIMACS Center

    96 Frelinhuysen Road

    Rutgers University

    Piscataway, NJ 08854-8018

    or Fax to 732-445-5932

    Attention: Graduate Student Projects

Application for DIMACS Winter 2009-2010 Graduate Student Program

Student Data:

• Name:

• Email address:

• Mail Address:

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• Telephone Number:

• Degree Program: (e.g. MS in Computer Science at Rutgers, PhD program at Princeton.)

• When do You Expect to Get a Degree?

• Faculty Advisor (if you have one):

• Research Project Advisor (if different from Faculty Advisor):

• Country of Citizenship:

• Gender (optional):

• Position Currently Held (TA, GA, etc.):

• Amount of Support you are Seeking:

• Research related to (list Special Focus Program):

• Project or Job you propose. Describe what you would do, why you are qualified for the project or job, and how you would benefit from it. Tell us which DIMACS activity it is related to (for example, the Special Focus on Computation and Socio-Economic Sciences), or how DIMACS would benefit from it.
  
  
• If you are Applying to Work on a Project or Job, tell us for how long you would like to work on it and when. Work is to take place in Winter 2009-2010.
  
  
• Recommendation: A short email message of recommendation from a DIMACS member or other scientist is required. The message should be sent to the Applications Coordinator at ishacole@dimacs.rutgers.edu. The recommender should indicate a willingness to mentor or supervise you.
  
  Name of recommender:
  
  
• Note: those who win awards from DIMACS for research work should expect to get involved in the activities of the center, publish results of their research in the DIMACS technical report series, acknowledge DIMACS support in their papers and theses, and provide reports to the center about their accomplishments.
  
  
• Send the completed application form via e-mail to the Applications Coordinator at ishacole@dimacs.rutgers.edu. Also, please mail or fax a copy of your transcript to Applications Coordinator (DIMACS, Rutgers University, 96 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8018, fax number: 732-445-5932), indicating this is in support of your application for the DIMACS Graduate Student Program.

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