[Storage-research-list] Middleware 2019 Travel Grants and Doctoroal Symposium Deadline Extended

[Vinay Setty]

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     MIDDLEWARE 2019

     9-13 December 2019

     UC DAVIS, CA



     http://2019.middleware-conference.org



     Last Call for Doctoral Symposium Papers and Participation

	

	NEWS:

		-> DEADLINE extended to October 4

		-> Generous amount of student travel grants are available, with priority

		   given to participants to the Middleware Doctoral Symposium!

		

		   http://2019.middleware-conference.org/grant.html

	

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The annual ACM/IFIP Middleware conference is a major forum for the 
discussion

of innovations and recent scientific advances of middleware systems with a

focus on the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of 
distributed

systems, platforms and architectures for computing, storage, and 
communication.



Middleware 2019 will be held at UC Davis, California from 9 to 13 
December 2019.



The conference will include a doctoral symposium, to which all PhD students

working on the topics of the Middleware conference are invited to apply. The

doctoral symposium will be held prior to the main conference.



The Middleware doctoral symposium is a welcoming and supportive environment

allowing all PhD students to receive feedback, discuss their work, and 
prepare

to get the most out of their participation to the main conference.



All participating students will be offered the opportunity to engage 
with their

peers, as well as with senior academic and industrial members of the 
Middleware

community. This will include the feedback of panel members on the day of the

symposium and individual meetings with a personal mentor during the 
conference.



The symposium is open to PhD students at any stage of their studies. 
Applicants

will be divided into two groups:



- Planners: students at an early-stage of their thesis who are focused on

   crafting their research proposal and completing background research.

- Finishers: students closer to finishing their thesis or dissertation and

   thinking about how to present their research, its results, and its 
impact.



All PhD students carrying out research on middleware topics are invited to

submit a position paper to the doctoral symposium. Papers will be 
peer-reviewed

by the symposium’s committee of selected mentors. The criteria for accepting

papers includes the extent of the contribution of the work to the field, the

originality of the problem, and the overall quality of the position paper.

Position papers should fit within the topics of the Middleware 2019 main

conference Call for Papers.



Position papers are limited to 2 pages (for students in the planner 
category)

or 4 pages (for students in the Finishers category). Submissions must 
use the

same format as for research papers (ACM SIGPLAN 9pt or 10pt). The suggested

content is detailed on the Middleware 2019 website:



http://2019.middleware-conference.org/doctoral.html



Contributions to the Middleware 2019 PhD Workshop will appear in a 
proceedings

that supplements the main conference proceedings.



Accepted position paper will lead to a presentation during the doctoral

symposium, which may require the preparation of a poster for the 
symposium and

for the main conference.



Doctoral students that submit their work to this symposium are strongly

encouraged to apply for student travel grants to attend Middleware 2019.

Students participating in the doctoral symposium will be given priority 
for the

travel grants.



Paper submission site: https://middleware19ds.hotcrp.com/



Important dates



- Position papers submission (extended): October 4, 2019

- Notification: October 14, 2019

- Camera Ready: October 18, 2019



Doctoral Symposium chairs



- Faisal Nawab, University of California Santa Cruz, USA

- Etienne Riviere, UCLouvain, Belgium



Contact the chairs at middleware19dw at uclouvain.be