HiPEAC Mini-Sabbaticals program
HiPEAC has a program of mini-sabbatical visits for HiPEAC faculty members as a part of its overall efforts to maintain a high quality research program and to facilitate research collaborations. We want to stimulate short sabbatical leaves for senior researchers and professors. Mini-sabbatical visits are typical stays for one month or maybe longer at another member company or academic site, or even at a non-HiPEAC institution that is looking to join or collaborate somehow with HiPEAC. The goal of the mini-sabbatical visits is to stimulate collaboration with the aim of coordinating or refocusing the research portfolio of the two institutions involved. The candidate for a sabbatical leave and his/her host, have to prepare a common sabbatical project, including a budget, which has to be approved by the Steering Committee. BSC is in charge of promoting and managing this program. Mini-sabbatical application calls are open all year long. The goal is to have 5 to 10 mini-sabbatical visits per year. Reimbursement is done through a simple per diem rate plus transportation costs.
Mini-sabbaticals granted in 2009:
- Prof. Dr. Rainer Leupers
Professor from RWTH Aachen University, Dr. Rainer has spent some weeks at ACE Associated Compiler Experts bv, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, hosted by Joseph van Vlijmen, working on parallel compilation for MPSoC, specifically on reconstruction of C code from the compiler IR. The visit has also allowed consulting on future developments and market perspectives in EDA context.
- Enrique Torres
Assistant Professor at the Computer Science and Systems Engineering Department at the University of Zaragoza, Spain, Enrique has been partially funded from this program for his sabbatical leave for study and research at the University of California at Berkeley, at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), collaborating with Professor Krste Asanovic. He is working on scalable cache coherence protocols in the Parlab and RAMP projects.
More detailed description of the program:
APPLICATIONS REQUIEREMENTS
- The applicant must be a senior researcher or professor, active full Member of HiPEAC
- The proposal would justify an existing prior collaboration with the destination institution that
can benefit from the visit, a very promising future join project, or any other consideration.
- The destination institution can be a HiPEAC institution, or even a non-HiPEAC institution that
is looking to join or collaborate somehow with HiPEAC.
- The host institution has to explicitly accept to host the visitor. It should agree which local
researcher who will take care of the guest and that the visitor will have access to means to
achieve the goals of the visit. A budget might be brought under consideration.
- To fill an application form (http://www.hipeac.net/node/add/minisabbatical) is required, describing the research activities to be done. The application form will also include a schedule of the main activities. The
Steering Committee will evaluate applications and will verify their eligibility.
APPLICATION CALL SCHEDULE
- Mini-sabbatical application calls are open all year long.
- The HiPEAC Steering Committee will periodically evaluate mini-sabbatical applications,
introduced by the mini-sabbatical coordinator.
REIMBURSEMENTS
- Granted money will usually be transferred at once and prior to the mini-sabbatical.
- Expenses could cover: moving expenses, housing, meals, transportation, and research trips.
- The money can be handled as a per diem, and transportation costs can be claimed separately.
Application form: http://www.hipeac.net/node/add/minisabbatical