TRAVEL SUPPORT:
		NSF has kindly agreed to support US students (students enrolled in US universities) with partial travel/registration to present papers in SRDS 2012 (in any event under SRDS). Last date to apply is Aug 15, 2012. The following information should be provided in your email to (Sanjay Madria, madrias@mst.edu)
		
		
		-    	Paper title, Symposium/workshop/PhD forum, full/short, student as first author or not, preference will be given to SRDS main symposium papers with students as the first author.
 
		-     PhD student or MS, and years in the graduate study
 
		-     Why you need support (justify in 10 lines)?
 
		-     A letter of recommendation from the supervisor
 
		
		 A team of organizing committee will evaluate each application and will notify students by Aug 25, 2012.
		
		
				 
		
		
		
			
				
				IMPORTANT DATES
					Submission of Abstract (recommended): 26th March 2012
					   Full Paper Submission: 16th April 2012
2nd April 2012
					   Author notification: 27th June 2012 
20th June 2012
					   Camera-ready: 27thJuly 2012
16th July 2012
					   Workshops: 8th/11th October 2012
					   Conference: 8th-11th October 2012	
				 
			 
			
				Symposium Co-Chairs 
					Sanjay Madria, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA 
					 Sharad Mehrotra, University of California-Irvine, USA
			 
			
				Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs 
					Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan 
					 Leszek Lilien, Western Michigan University, USA
					 Istvan Majzik, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary 
			 
			
				Finance Chair
					Sriram Chellappan, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA 
			 
			
				Local Arrangements Co-Chairs
					Phillip Sheu, University of California-Irvine,USA 
					George Wang, California State University, USA
			 
			
				Publication Chair
					Biswajit Panja, University of Michigan-Flint, USA 
			 
			
				Best Paper Award Co-Chairs
					Anoop Singhal, NIST, USA 
					   Atul Prakash, University of Michigan, USA 
			 
			
				Workshop Co-Chairs
					Pin Zhou, IBM Almaden, USA 
					   Ravi Prakash, University of Texas at Dallas, USA 
			 
			
				PhD Forum Co-Chairs
					Aniruddha Gokhale, Vanderbilt University, USA 
					   Qi Han, Colorado School of Mines, USA 
			 
			
				Publicity Co-Chairs
					Nayot Poolsappasit, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA 
					   Anriban Mondal, IIITD, India 
			 
			
				SC Liaisons
					Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University, USA