This award provides travel grants to students and junior faculty to participate in the 30th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS) which is being held in Madrid, Spain, October 4-7, 2011.
held in Spain, 2011. This is a high quality technical conference for researchers and practitioners who are interested in reliability, security, availability, privacy, and safety of distributed systems. It typically attracts 100-125 papers, 25-30 accepted papers, and 75 to 100 attendees. The middle-sized nature of the conference makes it suitable for extended technical discussions among participants. Students got an opportnity to learn and discuss with the top researchers in the area of distributed computing, security, reliability etc. They also had an opportunity to learn and exchange ideas on culture and other aspect of science, engineering and technology in other countries. Scientific research requires free dissemination and exchange of ideas, open-minded thinking and unrestricted access to knowledge. The benefits of international scientific research collaboration go beyond understanding and discovery of knowledge. International collaborations foster cultural understanding and strengthen human relationships among nations. They broaden the opportunities for bright, inquiring people as they prepare to participate in the life of the twenty-first century. This is all the more important in the realm of technological advancement, when the rapid dissemination and exchange of ideas, not only makes the applications of ideas more visible, but also more likely to be improved and made more usable to the common man.
