SIGCOMM 2001 Student Poster Session - Work in Progress Posters
                                      
   This year, the SIGCOMM 2001 conference will sponsor a one-hour poster
   session aimed at showcasing the "work-in-progress" of students
   attending the conference.  The goal of the poster session is to
   present students' current work and provide an opportunity for informal
   discussion of the work with the students at the conference venue.
   Topics of interest are the same as in the SIGCOMM conference CFP.
   
   Poster proposals should be sent to Hari Balakrishnan by June 17,
   2001.  This is a final date, no extensions will be granted.
   The primary author(s) of the poster must be a student. Posters will be
   reviewed by some members of the SIGCOMM Technical Program Committee
   and the authors of accepted posters will be notified by July 6 2001.
   At the conference, posters must be presented by a student.  Authors of
   accepted papers must not submit a poster of the work they present in
   the conference.
   
  Why should you submit a poster?
  
   This is a great chance for students to obtain interesting and valuable
   feedback on on-going work from a knowledgeable crowd at the
   conference.  Furthermore, student authors of accepted posters will be
   given some preference for the SIGCOMM 2001 student travel grant
   awards.
   
  What is a poster?
  
   A poster is a 1meter x 1.25 meter rectangular board on which you can
   affix visually appealing material that describes your research.  How
   you use this is up to you: you may choose to print out several
   8.5"x11" or A4 sheets of paper (e.g., paper copies of overheads) and
   "tile" the poster board with these pages.  Or, you may choose to print
   a single large sheet of paper describing the work and attach that to
   the poster board.  You may bring your own poster boards if you like.
   Several document companies like Kinko's produce professional-looking
   posters from material produced on software like PowerPoint; you may
   want to use such a facility.
   
   You should prepare the best material (visually appealing and succinct)
   that effectively communicates your research problem, techniques, and
   results.
   
  What, when, and where to submit?
  
   If you are a student and are interested in this, then submit the
   following by June 17 2001 by email to Hari Balakrishnan
   (hari@lcs.mit.edu):
    1. An ASCII text file describing the research to be presented in the
       poster.  Include the title, authors, and institutional
       affiliations.
    2. A draft of the poster material (either multiple "tiles" or a
       single sheet of paper), in PDF or PostScript format.
       Include the title, authors, and institutional affiliations.
       
   Send your submission in one email message with the two parts.  Please
   do not mail in a poster board!
   
   We will select between 10 and 20 of the most interesting and
   thought-provoking posters by July 6 2001 and notify all contact
   authors.  More details will be sent at that time.