SOC Outreach Forum and Grants finalized

With the sponsorship from IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society Outreach Initiative, we can now offer SOCC Outreach Grants to to a limited number of non-author, full-time graduate students for participating in the conference and workshop events and activities  The grant covers the student registration fees for the SOCC2017 Tutorial and the SOCC2017 Conference and partially the travel expenses.

For this purpose we have extended our program with an embedded Automotive SoC Forum specifically targeted at students, featuring a tutorial, keynote speech and panel discussion from renowned industry experts and academic researchers.

For details on how to apply for the SOC Outreach Grant, please follow this link.

HURRY UP, deadline is approaching fast and the number of grants is limited.

Important Dates

• Grant application submission deadline: Aug. 31, 2017
• Grant award notification: Sep. 1, 2017

This year, SOCC offers SOC Outreach Grants to full-time graduate students for participating in the conference and Automotive SoC Forum events with the sponsorship from IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society Outreach Initiative. The grant covers the student registration fees for the SOCC2017 Tutorial and the SOCC2017 Technical Conference and partially the travel expenses. The accepted students will receive free registration to both SOCC2017 Tutorial and Technical Conference (Sep. 5-8). Travel cost will be reimbursed at the conference for those who attend the tutorial and conference.

Eligibility

The SoC Outreach University/Industry Automotive SoC Forum is specially designed to encourage graduate students to join SoC research field and gain insight of research challenges and opportunities with emphasis on Automotive Industry. All applicants should meet the following eligibility requirements.

• Applicants must be full-time students pursuing a Master’s /Ph.D degree in the field relevant to VLSI/SoC community.
• Applicants must be non-author student attendees of the conference.
• Applicants are student members of IEEE CAS Society. If you are not a CAS member yet, you are highly encouraged to join IEEE CAS Society now (student membership fee is only $11 per year).

Application Instruction

All applicants should provide the following information in one single PDF file.

• Applicant’s resume
• EDAS account number
• Estimated travel cost, if applicable.
• The applications should be sent to the Forum Chair by emailing to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., with the subject line “SOC Outreach Grant application”
• Recipients must have a valid EDAS account and will be registered by the chairs.

Additional Requirements

• Recipients of awards must confirm acceptance of the offer within 2 days after notification by emailing to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
• Grant awardees are expected to attend all forum events and selected conference sessions each day.
• All recipients must participate in surveys to provide their evaluation, feedback and concerns.
• The awardees are encouraged to timely share their conference experience by using social media (twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.)
• If applicable, reimbursement will be processed on the last date of the conference with proof of travel expenses incurred by the recipients.

Important Dates

• Submission deadline: Aug. 31, 2017
• Award notification: Sep. 1, 2017

Important registration information

All registrations are handled through the EDAS Conference and Journal Management System. If you don’t have any EDAS account yet, please create an account associated with an email address under which the conference organizers will be able to contact you.

Deadline for author registration: July 14, 2017
All other attendees like co-authors (if there is already a paid full registration for their paper) and non-authors may still register at any time after this date at their suitable fees.

Authors

• In order to pay your registration fee, please go to the home page of your EDAS account and proceed through registrations available next to your submitted paper. 
• In order to appear in the program and the proceedings, each paper requires at least one paid "Full Conference" registration at full (member or non-member), undiscounted (= non-student / non-"IEEE Life Member") rate, together with the camera-ready paper submission from one of the authors by July 14, 2017.
  Registrations that fulfill this requirement are marked in yellow in the table below.
  
• For authors with multiple accepted papers, one full registration of the author as described above is valid for up to 3 papers. Student or IEEE Life Member registration will not be counted towards this requirement.
  
• The paper must be presented by an author of that paper at the conference. There must be a paid registration under the presenter's name. If someone else will be paying the fees for the presenter, the one who pays should use his own account and use the EDAS feature to "register others".
• In case a paper is not presented at the conference, it shall be deemed a “no-show.” No-shows will be removed from post-conference distribution and will not be available on IEEE Xplore® or other public-access IEEE forums.
• Paper submission cancellation must be received, in writing, by August 1, 2017.  Paper cancellation requests received after August 1 cannot be permitted.
  

Other attendees

• To register for any of the conference events, please go to http://edas.info/r23488.
  
• IEEE Members: In order to qualify for the membership rate, you must have entered your IEEE membership information in your EDAS profile.
• Students: Please do NOT forget to update your student status in your EDAS account. Students may be requested to send a copy of their scanned student IDs or show them at the check-in desk at the conference.
• Non-student conference registration fee includes all social events (banquet, etc.), technical sessions, and one conference proceedings on USB stick. Student registration does not include social events. Non-attendance at one or other of these events cannot be reimbursed.
• Advance Registration payment must be received no later than August 1, 2017. After August 1 you must pay the late registration fee.

Hotel reservation

• For accommodation please see the information on the Conference Venue page

Miscellaneous

• Conference or Tutorial registration cancellation requests must be received, in writing, by August 22, 2017. A processing fee of €100 for conference cancellation, and of €40 for tutorial cancellation will be deducted.  Refund requests received after August 22 cannot be guaranteed!
  Nevertheless, for authors the deadlines for paper submission cancellation (August 1) apply.
  For withdrawals or no-shows after August 1 no refund for the paper registration fee will be given and the paper will be removed from the program and publication.
  
• Please note where deadlines are given all times are GMT.

Registration Fees

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*Student registration does NOT include banquet and social events