IEEE CSS Student Support

Program Details

The Student Travel Support of MSC 2016 is meant to enable promising students to attend the conference, present their papers and become more integrated into their scientific community. Funds from IEEE Control System Society (CSS) will be used to cover the student registration. Depending on the number of applications, additional support might be possible covering, for example, accommodation in a hotel near the conference venue.

Eligibility and Requirements

Each applicant (i) must be an author or co-author of a paper accepted for presentation at MSC 2016, (ii) must register at the conference (please see further instructions below), and (iii) must present a paper.

Moreover, the applicant must be a (student) member of both IEEE and CSS, at the time of the application.

In case the number of applicants exceeds the budget, additional criteria will be used to make a selection among the applicants. These additional criteria, in decreasing order of importance, prefer applicants who

• have not benefited from this scheme in the last two years,
• will present more than one paper at the conference,
• have been student members of the CSS since one, two, or more years,
• can demonstrate active participation in CSS.

In addition, the selection committee may decide to limit awards where more than one presenter from the same institution would otherwise be offered an award to attend the same conference.

Application Procedures

To apply, students must fill in the form available at http://homepages.laas.fr/lzaccari/StudentSupport/ (login: student, password: ieeecss2016), convert it into the PDF format, and upload it through PaperPlaza as follows: Step 1: Select Submit a paper or session proposal for the MSC 2016
Step 2: Select First Submissions: Student Travel Form
Step 3: To complete the application procedure, the Student's Advisor must contact via e-mail Professor Luca Zaccarian, Chair of Student Activities Committee of the IEEE Control Systems Society (), and provide him with the following information:
1. Certification that the applicant is currently enrolled as a student and is planning to attend and present a paper at the MSC 2016.
2. Short message of support of the Student's application (less than 10 lines).

Deadlines and Award Notification

July 1 (or earlier): Decision letters about papers submitted to MSC 2016 are sent out.
July 6: Deadline for applying for the student travel support.
July 12 (tentative): Decision messages about travel support recipients are expected to be sent out.

Important: Do not register until you have received the decision letter where the details of the special registration procedure for Student Travel Awardees will be announced. Please be aware that the registration fee can potentially not be reimbursed in case you have already registered using the standard registration procedure.

July 15: Deadline for registering and uploading the final version of the manuscript.

If additional support, beyond registration, is awarded, original receipts will be needed for reimbursement. Details and procedures regarding reimbursement will be distributed, if needed.