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May 2018 SIGCOMM Newsletter
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Contents
Jennifer Rexford to Receive 2018 SIGCOMM Award for Lifetime Contributions
SIGCOMM Rising Star Award, Call for Nominations
Call for applications, ACM IMC Shadow TPC
Call for extended abstracts, travel grants available. School of Systems and Networks (SSN'18)
Students get support to attend TMA PhD School in Vienna
News on behalf of sister SIGs: MobiSys 2018 call for participation
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Jennifer Rexford to Receive 2018 SIGCOMM Award for Lifetime Contributions
Jennifer Rexford from Princeton University was selected as the recipient of the 2018 SIGCOMM Award for Lifetime Contributions.  Please join us in congratulating Jennifer on this well-deserved award.
 

Call for Nominations: SIGCOMM Rising Star Award 
Each year, ACM SIGCOMM presents a "Rising Star" Award, recognizing a young researcher - an individual within 10 years from receiving their highest university degree - who has made outstanding research contributions to the field of communication networks during this early part of his or her career. Depth, impact, and novelty of the researcher's contributions will be key criteria upon which the Rising Star award committee evaluate the nominees. Also of particular interest are strong research contributions made independently from the nominee's PhD advisor.
 
Nominations for the ACM SIGCOMM Rising Star award are due on July 15. Please see the following link for eligibility criteria, nomination guidelines, and the deadline. https://www.sigcomm.org/awards/sigcomm-rising-star-award
 

Call for applications, ACM IMC Shadow TPC
This year there is going to be an ACM IMC Shadow TPC! The Shadow PC will consist of PhD students, postdocs, early-career academics, and junior researchers. The goal is to provide an educational experience by exposing shadow TPC members to a review process and to subsequently train the next generation of program committee (PC) members.
 
Interested to join? Please apply until June 8, 2018, or forward to your students! All details: https://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2018/shadow/
 
We're also going to try something new this year! We plan to use the Shadow PC as a means to experiment with new approaches to managing the TPC decision process. We will implement an 
A/B experiment to compare the experience of in-person vs. remote meetings. As part of this, the IMC Shadow PC will be split in two groups. (i) Those who will attend an in-person Shadow PC meeting, held at the end of July in Berlin; (ii) Those who will attend an online meeting via professional video conferencing distributed among two or more remote sites, also held at the end of July. Every participant needs to decide up front which group he or she would like to join. We assume that members based in Europe can travel easier and expect from them to 
attend the one-day in-person meeting.
 
The outcomes of these two meetings will be recorded and compared, and used to inform possible SIGCOMM’s experiments with future PC meetings.
 
Shadow PC Chairs (contact: imc18shadowtpcchairs@lists.fu-berlin.de)
  Matthias Wählisch (Freie Universitat Berlin)
  Gareth Tyson (Queen Mary University of London)
  Aruna Balasubramanian (Stony Brook University)
 

Call for extended abstracts, travel grants available. School of Systems and Networks (SSN'18)
The School of Systems and Networks (SSN'18), organized by NIC Labs (University of Chile) with the support of ACM SIGCOMM will be held October 29-31 2018in Valdivia, Chile. In its fourth edition, the topic selected is “this IS rocket science”, where we will discuss networks, communications, and systems for spatial exploration. The keynotes and lectures will address topics such as systems and design for space exploration, inter-satellite communications, satellite IoT, big data for astronomy, mesh and DNT networks for global Internet access, among others. The call for posters, however, will be open to all topics related to computer networks, communications, and systems. Accepted works are entitled to apply for travel grants that will be provided by ACM SIGCOMM, as reimbursement for air travel expenses of grantees. More information is available at http://niclabs.cl/ssn/2018/. Deadline for submissions has been extended to June 15th, 2018. Questions, inquiries, and comments: ssn2018@niclabs.cl
 

Students get support to attend TMA PhD School in Vienna
The 8th TMA - Traffic Measurement and Analysis PhD School takes School takes place in Vienna, June 25-26, and will consist of hands-on labs and talks, including Idilio Drago, Bruce Maggs and Anja Feldmann as speakers. There will be 52 students attending, 21% of which female. The SIG is contributing with most of the funding to travel grants, allowing 30 students from all over the world to participate, of which 20 are within Europe, 8 come from South America, 1 from Asia and 1 from North America.

News on behalf of sister SIGs: MobiSys 2018 call for participation
ACM MobiSys 2018 will be held in the city of Munich 10-15 June 2018.
https://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2018/
 
We will have 37 full papers and some 40 posters/demo, 6 workshops, and 1 PhD forum.  Two keynotes by Martin Hauschild (BMW) and Tommaso Melodia (Northeastern University) and a panel.
 
The 1st ACM Open IoT Day will be on 11 June with a keynote by Vint Cerf, Satya's test-of-time award talk, and visionary talks from industry, including BMW, Ericsson, IBM, and Intel, among others.
 
On 10/11 June, will feature our IoT Hackathon (application deadline for participants is 20 May 2018):  https://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2018/hackathon/
 
Our social events will focus on different regional features: the reception being held in the BMW Museum and the banquet next to the oldest operating brewery, featuring the premiere of MobiSys Pale Ale, produced by TUM's own research brewery in Weihenstephan.
 
Early registration and hotel reservation deadline is 14 May 2018.  Join us in Munich: https://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2018/registration/