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DEADLINE TO APPLY FOR SBP TRAVEL SUPPORT IS MARCH 15, 2013. Registration is now open for SBP13, the 2013 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction. SBP13 will be held at the UCDC Center, downtown Washington DC, USA April 2 – April 5, 2013. Link to the main conference pages, http://sbp2013.org/index.shtml Link directly to registration page, https://secwww.jhuapl.edu/sbp2013/ TRAVEL SUPPORT AVAILABLE !! We have two forms of travel support available, as described below. 1. Travel Support for Students We have obtained grant funding that will provide a number of registration and travel scholarships for students, to help them attend the conference. These awards will cover registration costs for local students. For non-local students, the award will cover up to $1000 for registration, travel, and lodging expenses. To apply for these awards, students should send an email to Wei Wei (wei...@cs.cmu.edu) and Patrick Roos (r...@cs.umd.edu). The email should include the following: 1. Confirmation that the student is planning to attend SBP13 2. Confirmation that the student wants to apply for the bursary 3. A simple letter of support by a faculty member confirming the applicant's student status 4. A short paragraph outlining why the student has need for the award These awards will be allocated on the basis of student need and available funding. DEADLINE TO APPLY FOR SBP TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS IS MARCH 15. 2. Travel Support to Promote Diversity at SBP13 (for students and non-students) We also have funding that will provide a limited travel support (registration, travel, hotel) for the purpose of increasing diversity at SBP 2013. Support will be available to participants from underrepresented groups (racial minority, females, or participants from the social sciences, economic or managerial sciences, or biomedical research fields) to help them attend the conference and contribute to the disciplinary diversity. These awards will cover registration costs for local conference participants. For non-local participants, the award will cover up to $1000 for registration, travel, and lodging expenses. These awards are available to students, post-docs, and non-students who belong to one or more of the underrepresented groups indicated. To apply for consideration, please send an email to Don Adjeroh (d...@csee.wvu.edu). The email must include the following: 1. Confirmation that you are planning to attend SBP13 2. Confirmation that you wish to apply for the travel support 3. An indication of the under-represented category/categories to which you belong. Diversity categories include Gender (i.e., females are underrepresented at this conference), and racial or ethnic group (underrepresented groups include African Americans, American Indians, and those of Hispanic origin). Diversity categories also include area of study. Diverse areas of study are those outside of the traditional STEM disciplines, and include behavioral and social sciences, economic or managerial sciences, and biomedical research fields. 4. (For student applicants and post-docs only) A simple letter of support by a faculty member who knows you, confirming that you belong to the minority category that you specified. 5. A short paragraph outlining your need for the travel support The awards will be allocated on the basis of individual's need and available funding. Travel scholarships to promote diversity are awarded in the form of travel reimbursement. Travel scholars will need to submit qualifying receipts at the end of their trip. DEADLINE TO APPLY FOR SBP TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS IS MARCH 15, 2013. SOME EXCITING ITEMS ON THE PROGRAM! SBP 2013 CHALLENGE – see: http://sbp2013.org/challenge.shtml TUTORIALS – see : http://sbp2013.org/tutorial.shtml ( http://sbp2013.org/tutorial.shtml )Morning and afternoon tutorials are offered on Tuesday, April 2 (included with registration fee): A Review of Human Mobility Models based on Digital Traces of Human Activity Presenter: Marta C. Gonzalez Gilbert Winslow Career Development Assistant Professor Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT Categorial Analysis of Social Processes Presenter: David L. Sallach Argonne National Laboratory, University of Chicago Building Agent-Based Models with the MASON toolkit Presenters: Joey Harrison & Claudio Cioffi-Revilla Department of Computational Social Science, George Mason University Social Simulation: Introduction to Agent-based modeling Presenter: Georgiy Bobashev Senior Research Statistician, RTI International For a full description of tutorials, see: http://sbp2013.org/tutorial.shtml SBP13 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Dr. Bernardo Huberman Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Professor Michele Gelfand University of Maryland Dr. Myron Gutmann National Science Foundation For more information on the keynote speakers, see: http://sbp2013.org/keynote.shtml Please visit the conference website for further information about the conference: http://sbp2013.org/index.shtml
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