[robocup-worldwide] Travel Grants: IEEE RAS Summer School on "Robot Vision and Applications"

[Javier Ruiz-del-Solar]

(Please distribute this call for participation among colleagues,  
students, friends and people interested on robotics)
Second Call for Participation

The IEEE RAS Summer School on "Robot Vision and Applications" will be  
held on December 3-7, 2012 at the School of Engineering of the  
Universidad de Chile, in Santiago, Chile. The summer school is co- 
funded by the recently created IEEE RAS Summer School Program, and it  
is technically sponsored by the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on  
Computer & Robot Vision and the IEEE RAS Education Committee. The  
official language of the summer school is English, and it will include  
tutorial courses, keynote lectures, a student poster competition, and  
live demonstrations (autonomous vehicle, robot soccer, domestic  
robots, quad-copters).

The IEEE RAS Summer School Program will fund travel grants for  
international students.
Travel Grants Program

Purpose: To provide support for students attending the summer school.

Award: Each Student Travel Grant Award is $850 for international  
students, and USD$425 for international students from neighbor  
countries. The local organization will cover the registration fees of  
all international students.

Eligibility: To qualify for consideration the student must:

	• Be an undergraduate or graduate student,

	• Submit an extended abstract of a research work to be finally  
presented in poster format at the summer school,


	• Submit a Curriculum Vitae,

	• Be a IEEE RAS member (not mandatory).
In addition, a recommendation letter of a professor or the thesis  
advisor must be submitted. This letter must confirm that the person  
that is applying to the travel grant is a student.


Selection Criteria:
	• The scientific quality of the submitted abstract,
	• The candidate previous achievements,
	• The content of the recommendation letter,
	• In case of candidates with similar evaluation, the following  
criteria will be used: the affiliation of the candidate to the IEEE  
RAS, and the aim of supporting students from a wide number of  
countries .

Application deadline: October 31st, 2012.
Decision notification: November 7h, 2012.
The Poster Competition Chair is Professor Pablo Zegers (pzegers at miuandes.cl 
). In case of having questions, please contact him directly.

Best regards,

Javier

General Chair
IEEE RAS Summer School on "Robot Vision and Applications"


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