Second Call for Participation

The IEEE RAS Summer School on "Robot Vision and Applications" will be held on December 3-7, 2012 at the School of Engineering of the Universidad de Chile, in Santiago, Chile. The summer school is co-funded by the recently created IEEE RAS Summer School Program, and it is technically sponsored by the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Computer & Robot Vision and the IEEE RAS Education Committee. The official language of the summer school is English, and it will include tutorial courses, keynote lectures, a student poster competition, and live demonstrations (autonomous vehicle, robot soccer, domestic robots, quad-copters).

The IEEE RAS Summer School Program will fund travel grants for international students.

Travel Grants Program

Purpose: To provide support for students attending the summer school.

Award: Each Student Travel Grant Award is $850 for international students, and USD$425 for international students from neighbor countries. The local organization will cover the registration fees of all international students.

Eligibility: To qualify for consideration the student must:

            • Be an undergraduate or graduate student,

            • Submit an extended abstract of a research work to be finally presented in poster format at the summer school,

            • Submit a Curriculum Vitae,

            • Be a IEEE RAS member (not mandatory).

In addition, a recommendation letter of a professor or the thesis advisor must be submitted. This letter must confirm that the person that is applying to the travel grant is a student.

Selection Criteria:

            • The scientific quality of the submitted abstract,

            • The candidate previous achievements,

            • The content of the recommendation letter,

            • In case of candidates with similar evaluation, the following criteria will be used: the affiliation of the candidate to the IEEE RAS, and the aim of supporting students from a wide number of countries .

Application deadline: October 31st, 2012.

Decision notification: November 7h, 2012.

The Poster Competition Chair is Professor Pablo Zegers (pzegers@miuandes.cl). In case of having questions, please contact him directly.

Best regards,

Javier

General Chair

IEEE RAS Summer School on "Robot Vision and Applications"