The proposal requests student travel support for The ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP 2013) and associated workshops. The conference is being held in Boston MA during the period of September 22-28. ICFP is the premier conference on all topics related to functional and higher-order programming and the meeting includes eight related workshops and symposia. ICFP is the premier conference on all topics related to functional and higher-order programming. Supporting student travel to attend professional conferences and workshops is a very important mission of the NSF. Broader impacts include building the next generation of researchers in this research area, as well as providing international experiences to build a globally-aware workforce.
The ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP) isone of the world’s premier conferences in computer science. Thus, it is a critical one toattend for students working in the areas covered by ICFP and its related workshops,tutorials, and symposia: all aspects of functional programming, including but notlimited to theory, practice, type systems, implementations, domain-specific languages,programming pearls, and industrial case-studies. Students will benefit from meetingleaders in the functional programming community, including many who have careers using functional programming outside of an academic setting. The NSF granted an award of $5,000.00 to subsidize 5 students traveling to and attending ICFP 2013. A total of $3,327.01 was used. Key Words: student travel support, international. 2. Details The following students received travel assistance via this grant: $541.51 Jennifer Paykin $1,000.00 Edward Amsdens $385.50 Zhiqiang Ren $1,000.00 KC Sivaramakrishnan $ 400.00 Phillip Mates This totals $3,327. Note that there was a shortfall of $1,672.99: not all of the available funds were awarded to students. The grant was advsertised by the ICFP local organizing committee; the same team also administered the payments to the students (with the assistance of the ACM NSF team, which in essense "owned" the grant). There was some confusion as to the eligibility criteria, but the most significant factor was delays in getting confirmation of no-cost extension to the ICFP team.
