Subject: [irtf-discuss] Call for Posters: womEncourage March 1, 2014

From: "Eggert, Lars" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 19:49:33 +0000

I don't normally post CFPs on these lists, but in the interest of increasing diversity in the field and therefore indirectly our organization, I'm making an exception here. 

Lars

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> 
> Subject: Call for Posters: womEncourage March 1, 2014
> 
> Dear Lars Eggert,
> 
> ACM-W Europe, the Association for Computing Machinery's Committee on 
> Women in Computing in Europe are sponsoring a conference specifically 
> for encouraging women to stay in the field. This conference will be 
> held in Manchester, UK, with the motto womENcourage. As you are a 
> member of the ACM in Europe, we are reaching out to you to help us 
> to inform students in your programme. Can you please distribute the 
> poster at http://cdt.bilkent.edu.tr/ACM_WomENcourage2014
> and announce to your students about the conference? 
> 
> Encourage your students to submit a poster and to apply for travel 
> grants so that they have the funds to travel to the conference.
> 
> OPPORTUNITIES for Students
> --------------------------
> - Submit an abstract for the Student Poster session: http://womencourage.acm.org/poster.cfm
> We invite poster submissions of original work by students (female 
> and male) in all areas of computing and related disciplines. 
> 
> DEADLINE December 13th, 2013.
> 
> - Apply for a Travel Grant  http://womencourage.acm.org/grants.cfm
> A limited number of travel grants will be available to assist with 
> travel expenses to the conference.  DEADLINE December 13th, 2013.
> 
> - See the poster for the conference here: http://cdt.bilkent.edu.tr/ACM_WomENcourage2014
> which can be e-mailed to students or printed as small flyers. Please 
> distribute this poster to your students and if you would like a 
> larger poster for printing let us know and we will email it to you.
> 
> We are looking forward to seeing you and your students at womENcourage 
> on March 1, 2014. Please feel free to contact us at [email-masked] 
> if you have questions or need more information.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Reyyan Ayfer, ACM-W Europe Chair
> Eva Navarro Lopez, Conference Co-Chair
> Bev Bachmayer, Conference Co-Chair