ICC 2017 Student support scheme
The list of students selected and further instructions are available at http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/~belur/icc/icc17.html: please visit this at the earliest.
Detailed directions and map about IIT Guwahati is available at
http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/~belur/icc/iitg-files/
Please download the files from there. A separate email with phone numbers of student volunteers
is being sent to only those whose names are in the list of student support students (kept at http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/~belur/icc/icc17.html )
-Madhu and Soumya (29th Dec, 2016)
The old announcement text follows below.
The organizers of the Indian Control Conference (ICC) 2017 invite participation by all students studying in India (independent of whether or not the students have a paper). The organizers are grateful to the IEEE Control Systems Society (IEEE-CSS) for providing a financial grant to facilitate this participation. The financial support covers travel/registration/accommodation of students studying in India for participation in the ICC 2017 as elaborated below.
Please
read the instructions below very carefully and until the end.
We
welcome applications for the student support program: students who
are NOT authors are ALSO encouraged to apply and benefit out of the
scheme. Details about application procedure are below. Also visit
http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/~belur/icc/
for
updates. Please circulate this
information to whomever you feel might be interested
in the
ICC-2017 student support scheme.
Who is eligible?
Any student who is an author in one of the papers submitted to ICC 2017.
Any student who is enrolled for Ph.D./M.S. (by research) but has not submitted a paper to ICC 2017.
Applicant must be enrolled as a student as
on 1st October, 2016 and must
continue to be a student until the
duration of the conference, 4-6 January 2017.
Applicant must be a student in a
college/university/institution within
India (independent of the
Nationality of the student).
Please
note that mere eligibility does not guarantee the selection for
the
student support. Depending on the number of applicants, we
might consider
a priority scheme in which applicants who are *NOT*
from IITs/IISc (for
example) get a higher priority.
What
is supported for selected students?
If
selected, ICC 2017 will support train/air/bus fare up to a maximum of
Rs. 9000 or actuals, whichever is less. The student support will also
cover your registration and accommodation costs at the host
institution.
Due
to difficulty in bill-handling, taxi-fares will not be considered for
reimbursement. Please maintain receipts, tickets (to-and-fro),
boarding passes (one-side travel
by air), bills. Rules require
incoming-flight-travel boarding passes to be
submitted for even
partial air-fare reimbursement: please submit them to
the
organizers on 4th January 2017. These dates are strict.
How
to apply?
Please
fill the google form available at:
https://goo.gl/forms/2Iux8y1UqkfZfIyz1
(No need to have a gmail-id to fill the
form.) Please put email address and name/phone-number of your
supervisor/guide/advisor/dept-head (any one): we will contact them
only for short-listed students to verify the studentship. (Just
in the rare
case that the link is not working, then please visit
http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/~belur/icc
for updates/corrections.)
Last
date for filling the form: 12th September 2016 (11:45
pm).
Applications received after the last date might not be
considered.
Typically, the number of candidates applying for
the scheme far-outnumbers
the number of students we can support:
due to this a priority scheme is
inevitable. For selecting
candidates, the following priority scheme will
be considered:
first authors who are non-IIT, PhD students
authors who are non-IIT students
remaining student authors
non-IIT PhD students, who have not
submitted a paper to ICC’17
IIT PhD students, who have not
submitted a paper to ICC’17
Masters students (MS (by research) or or any research based masters degree), who have not submitted papers to ICC’17.
M.Tech/M.E./B.Tech/B.E. students need not apply unless they are authors.
For the above policy, IIT includes IISc too.
The
form is very easy to fill and takes about 5 minutes: please let
the
priority scheme not discourage anybody from applying. This
priority scheme
is in line with IEEE-CSS's approval to use the
fund to encourage research
in control within India.
Further,
to ensure good utilization of the availed funds, all
selected
students will have to register for the ICC 2017
conference (using
student-registration) and
seek reimbursement when they *participate* in the ICC 2017. This
reduces no-shows.
Selected students will be intimated by email
by 30th September, 2016.
Please
ensure you type your email address correctly. Announcements
about
this will also be made at
http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/~belur/icc/
Please check this website
regularly.
Selected students will be paid by cheque for the
travel and registration
**reimbursement**. Accommodation will be
provided to the selected students
by the organizers. Please
note again: selected students **will have to
register** as
student-registration, and then upon participation they get
the
reimbursement (by cheque) of the registration amount. Reimbursement
is
not possible without attendance and participation. Amount
paid for travel
will
be the actual travel fare or Rs. 9000/-, whichever is less.
The
support is an award and cannot be “transferred”. Further,
in case of
cancellation of travel (due to unforeseen reasons), it
is not feasible to
pay any (partially) incurred travel expenses.
Participation in all days of
the conference is compulsory for
actual availing of the student support.
For the purpose of the
*application* of student support, a student
"author"
means the student should have just *submitted* a paper to the
ICC
2017: irrespective of the acceptance decisions. Please put
paper-id in the
relevant box. Before announcing the student
support decisions, we might
have to consider priority of
oral-presentation papers over
poster-presentation papers, and
similarly poster-presentation authors over
student-authors of
rejected papers. Due to the limited fund: such a policy
is
inevitable, please bear with us.
Queries can be mailed to
student@icc.org.in
-Soumya
Ranjan Sahoo, Madhu N. Belur, Student Support Chairs.