The 2008 ACC is pleased to announce a Student Best Paper Award: All primary, first-listed authors of a regular contributed paper who were students at the time of submission are eligible. The finalists are required to present their paper at the conference to be eligible to receive the award, and will be awarded limited travel reimbursements to attend the conference. The finalists for the best student paper are:

Yongsheng Ou, Lehigh University, "Closed-Loop Tracking Control of Poloidal Magnetic Flux Profile in Tokamaks", WeA17.1

Goele Pipeleers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, "Robust High-Order Repetitive Control", WeB12.2

Robert Gregg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Reduction-Based Control with Application to Three-Dimensional Bipedal Walking Robots", WeB05.6

Shreyas Sundaram, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Distributed Function Calculation Via Linear Iterations in the Presence of Malicious Agents -- Part II: Overcoming Malicious Behavior", WeC03.5

The 2008 ACC expects to have limited funds available to assist students who are traveling to the conference to present papers. These funds will be provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the IEEE Control Systems Society, the ASME Dynamics and Control Division, and the American Automatic Control Council. The intent of the travel grants is to supplement other sources of funding; full travel reimbursement will not be available. The available funds will be divided fairly among the students who apply.

Reimbursable expenses include student registration fee, hotel (partial, e.g. for sharing a room), and travel (air or train ticket). Non-reimbursable expenses include regular (full) registration, meals, and local transportation (taxis, shuttles, parking, etc). Note that the different funds have different restrictions. For example, the ASME and IEEE funds require ASME or IEEE student membership respectively. The NSF funds require the student to be studying at an accredited university in the US, and preference is given to US citizens and permanent residents.

There is a two stage application process to receive this travel assistance:

Step 1. The student must submit a travel assistance request by May 8, 2008. The form must be saved as a PDF and submitted through PaperPlaza (From the PaperPlaza main page, click on "Submit a contribution to 2008 ACC" and then "Student Travel Award Application." )

Step 2. The student must submit an accounting of expenses after the event, with the professor's certification that the expenses were not otherwise covered by university, foundation, or industry funds.

DEADLINE: JULY 1, 2008

Click here for the student travel reimbursement form.

Click here for the Student Travel Application form.

Being a professor seems like a great job, what is the secret to getting hired? This panel will discuss the ins and outs of the academic job hunt, including how to choose where to apply, how to make your CV stand out, what to discuss in your research plan, and what to say (and not say) in your interview talk. Panelists will represent views from search committees, department chairs, and interviewees. Junior PhD students are encouraged to attend.

Co-organizers:

- Andrew Alleyne, University of Illinois, search committee chair
- Dawn Tilbury, University of Michigan, former search committee chair

Panelists:

- Gary Balas, University of Minnesota
- Domitilla Del Vecchio, University of Michigan
- A. Galip Ulsoy, University of Michigan
- Ardalan Vahidi, Clemson University

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The "Nights staying" field is to indicate which nights - Tuesday 6/10, Wednesday 6/11, Thursday 6/12 and/or Friday 6/13 - you are looking for a roommate. Students that submit the above information will be emailed a spreadsheet containing the above information for all students participating in this room-sharing program so they can email each other to make room-sharing arrangements. An updated spreadsheet will be sent out once a week, so when you have found a roommate, please email lzallen@umich.edu again with the subject ACC 08 and the body "Remove LASTNAME, FIRSTNAME" with your name inserted as appropriate. If you do not wish the above information shared with other students, please do not use this service. This is not a roommate matching service but rather a way for students to make their own roommate matches. No responsibility is assumed for the outcomes of arrangements made using this information exchange.