<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>(<i>Please distribute this call for participation among colleagues, students, friends and people interested on robotics</i>)</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Second Call for Participation<o:p></o:p></font></span></b></p><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">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. </span>The summer school is co-funded by the recently created <b>IEEE RAS Summer School Program</b>, and it is technically sponsored by the <b>IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Computer & Robot Vision</b> and the <b>IEEE RAS </b><b>Education Committee</b>. 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).</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The IEEE RAS Summer School Program will fund <b>travel grants for international students</b>.</div></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p align=""><b>Travel Grants Program</b></p><p align=""></p><p align=""><b>Purpose: </b>To provide support for students attending the summer school.</p><p align=""><b>Award: </b>Each Student Travel Grant Award is $850 for international students, and<b> </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">USD$425 for international students from neighbor countries. T</span>he local organization will cover the registration fees of all international students.</p><p align=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Eligibility: </span>To qualify for consideration the student must:</p><p align="" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">• Be an undergraduate or graduate student,</span></p><p align="" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">• Submit an extended abstract
of a research work to be finally presented in poster format at the summer
school,</span></p><p align="" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "></span></p><p align="" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">• Submit a Curriculum Vitae,</span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">• Be a IEEE RAS member (not mandatory).</span><p></p><p align="">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.<br></p><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Selection Criteria:</b></div><div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• The scientific quality of the submitted abstract,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• The candidate previous achievements,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• The content of the recommendation letter,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• 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 .</div><br></div><div>Application deadline: October 31st, 2012.</div><div>Decision notification: November 7h, 2012.</div><p></p><p></p></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The <b>Poster Competition Chair</b> is Professor Pablo Zegers (<a href="mailto:pzegers@miuandes.cl">pzegers@miuandes.cl</a>). In case of having questions, please contact him directly.</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Best regards,</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Javier</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">General Chair</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">IEEE RAS Summer School on "Robot Vision and Applications"</span></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><a href="mailto:jruizd@ing.uchile.cl"></a></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></div></div> </div><br></body></html>