ACM SIGCOMM 2020 Networking Networking Women Professional Development Workshop (N2Women’20):

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The N2Women workshop aims to foster connections among the under-represented women in computer networking and related research fields. The 10th N2Women Workshop also welcomes men who share the same research interests, attend the same conferences, and often face the same career hurdles and obstacles to join us!

Register for the N2Women workshop

Post-workshop announcements

• The Best Poster Award goes to "Using Network Localization Algorithms for Digital Contact Logging Applications", by Lillian Clark (University of Southern California); Alan Papalia (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Luca Mastrostefano (Covid Community Alert); Jonata Tyska Carvalho (Federal University of Santa Catarina); Bhaskar Krishnamachari (University of Southern California).
  
  
• The Runners-Up for the Best Poster Award are
  • "FDP: A teaching and demo platform for P4-based SDN" by Heena Nagda (Georgia Institute of Technology); Rakesh Nagda, Isaac Pedisich, Nik Sultana, Boon Thau Loo (University of Pennsylvania), and
  • "Footprint and Performance of Large Cloud Networks" by Jia He, Weifan Jiang, Ege Gurmericliler, Georgia Essig (Columbia University); Arpit Gupta (UC Santa Barbara); Matt Calder (Microsoft); Vasileios Giotsas (Lancaster University); Italo Cunha (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais); Ethan Katz-Bassett, Todd Arnold (Columbia University)
  
  Congratulations to all the authors of the winning posters!
  
  
• We are collecting feedback for our workshop. Please visit the feedback form!

Workshop program

The N2Women workshop has three main goals:

• Connect newer generations of networking women researchers with the community and create mentorship relationships;
• Create a research forum in which students and junior researchers learn and discuss current trends in networking, present their research and receive feedback;
• Engage a diverse body of junior researchers in the field.

What’s new this year

• Best poster award, and “surprises” for best poster and runners-up
• E-travel grant of FREE SIGCOMM’20 registration for one author per accepted poster
• N2Women fellowship (see information below)

Important Dates

• Aug 2/Aug 9, 2020

  Registration deadline

• Aug 3, 2020

  N2Women Young Researcher Fellowship award deadline

• July 27, 2020 11:59PM AoE

  Poster abstract submission

• July 31, 2020

  Notification of acceptance

• August 7, 2020

  Final poster (video presentation) due

• August 10, 2020

  Workshop date

Submit your poster abstract at https://n2women20.hotcrp.com/.

Call for Posters

Posters are solicited for research related to any aspect of networking and communications. All researchers in the networking and communications fields are welcome to submit their work for presentation at this workshop. Posters will not be published and can therefore be under submission to other conferences or workshops.

Authors of accepted posters will be required to present their work as part of a lightning presentations session. Presenting a poster is a great opportunity, especially for students and junior researchers, to obtain interesting and valuable feedback on ongoing research from mentors and a knowledgeable crowd at the workshop.

Participants with accepted posters are highly encouraged to examine if they are eligible for workshop e-travel grants which include FREE SIGCOMM’20 registration.

One poster will be selected to receive a Best Poster Award. Both best poster award and runners-up will receive a “big surprise” award.  

Submit your poster abstract at https://n2women20.hotcrp.com/.

Poster Submission

Each submission should be f Each submission should be formatted as an extended abstract, describing the research to be presented in the poster. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of TWO printed pages including all figures and references. Authors must follow the standard ACM two-column conference format (single-spaced 8.5” x 11” pages with 9-pt font size). The extended abstract must include the names, affiliations and email addresses of all authors and should be submitted as a single PDF file.

The extended abstract must include the names, affiliations and email addresses of all authors and should be submitted as a single PDF file at https://n2women20.hotcrp.com/

For any question or information, please contact the workshop chairs.

Camera-ready instructions

Please submit the camera-ready version no later than Aug 3, 2020 (the sooner the better). Review comments are available at the submission website (https://n2women20.hotcrp.com). Please revise your title as Poster: [old title]. Once submitted, your poster abstract (pdf) will be released at the workshop website.

Prepare a video before the event. To boost our interactivity online, we request each accepted poster to upload your poster and 1-min video prior to the workshop no later than Aug 8, 2020. 1-min video is a short presentation recorded in advance to reach the public. Both poster and 1-min video will be released at the workshop site as well.

Registration

Registration to the workshop is FREE but required.

Register for the N2Women workshop

At least one author per accepted poster must be registered.

The deadline for registration is August 2nd (for those who are eligible for free SIGCOMM'20 registration per accepted poster) and August 9 otherwise.

SIGCOMM’20 will boost communication on Slack. Please join our Slack channel if you have not already. Here is the channel for our N2women workshop: #sigcomm2020-workshop-n2women (direct link). You are encouraged to interact with others and do Q&A on Slack.

More specific instructions on how to attend this workshop will be released shortly and sent to those registered attendees.

Mentoring Program

N2Women’20 will have a mentor/mentee program. We would like to extend mentoring throughout the week for the students who are attending SIGCOMM virtually. This year, we will create a few mentoring sessions with different focused questions.

You are also welcome to attend mentoring sessions organized by SIGCOMM’20 throughout the SIGCOMM week.  

We are looking for mentors who can host mentees with similar research interests during N2Womean and the main SIGCOMM conference and workshops. If you are a SIGCOMM regular attendee and a senior researcher, please consider volunteering as a mentor. If you are interested in helping out, please email N2Women’20 workshop co-chairs or the mentor chair of SIGCOMM’20.

Call for Fellowship Awards

N2Women is pleased to announce the continuation of our N2Women Young Researcher Fellowship awards. N2Women considers you a young researcher if you are currently a student, working as a post-doc, or in the 1st or 2nd year of your new research career. These awards will partially cover a young researcher's conference cost (up to $1000) to a meeting where an N2Women event will be held. In exchange, the young researcher must help organize the N2Women meeting. The benefit of doing the organization, in addition to the funds, is for the young researcher to connect with the organizers of the conference who are, typically, leaders in the research field. We will arrange for a faculty or research member of N2Women to assist/mentor the young researcher in this task.

Support for these N2Women Young Researcher Fellowship awards have been generously provided by ACM SIGMOBILE, ACM SIGCOMM, IEEE Communications Society, and IEEE Computer Society (CS) Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC).

To apply for a fellowship or for more information, visit http://committees.comsoc.org/n2women/ and click the Fellowships link.

The deadline for applications for Sigcomm 2020 is August 3rd 2020.

Committee

• Workshop chairs

• Chunyi Peng

  Purdue University

• Ying Zhang

  Facebook

Please contact the workshop chairs Chunyi Peng (chunyi-at-purdue-dot-edu) and Ying Zhang (zhangying-at-fb-dot-com) for any relevant question or information.