There is a program to help defray the costs of attending ESEC/FSE 2023.

SIGSOFT Travel Support and Childcare Assistance

SIGSOFT provides travel and childcare support for students and researchers. More details about the SIGSOFT CAPS program can be found at https://sigsoft.org/caps/capsmain/.

If you are interested in travel support, please submit your complete application to https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/7490581/SIGSOFT-CAPS-Travel-Support-for-ESEC-FSE-2023 by October 6, 2023 (Friday).

Childcare applications are handled separately by emailing the SIGSOFT CAPS Coordinator (sigsoft_caps@acm.org). The deadline of CAPS childcare application is flexible, depending on the applicants’ needs and the availability of the funds.

NSF Support for US-based Participants

We are pleased to announce the NSF student travel support for ESEC/FSE 2023. This program seeks to support doctoral students, as well as master’s students and senior undergraduate students who are interested in pursuing Ph.D. studies in Software Engineering, for attending ESEC/FSE 2023. The travel award will come in the form of travel reimbursement. It will cover airfare, transportation, lodging, meals, and registrations for the main conference.

Recipients must be students at U.S. institutions. Priorities will be given to:

• Students whose participation improves the diversity of computing research.
• Applicants who could not attend without a travel award.
• Students participating in the Doctoral Symposium or Student Research Competition.
• Authors of papers accepted to the technical program, an FSE workshop, or a co-located event.
• U.S. citizens and permanent residents.

Please apply through this form. The application deadline is Oct 15 (including the reference letter). We expect to announce the recipients on Oct 20. If you have any questions, please email Tianyi Zhang (tianyi@purdue.edu) or Baishakhi Ray (rayb@cs.columbia.edu).

NSF ESEC/FSE 2023 Student Travel Award Committee

• Kelly Blincoe, University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Caroline Lemieux, University of British Columbia, Canada
• Nan Niu, University of Cincinnati, USA
• Baishakhi Ray, Columbia University, USA
• Tianyi Zhang, Purdue University, USA

Acknowledgment

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the U.S. National Science Foundation for making these travel awards possible. The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed at the conference do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

MAPS Workshop Travel Support

MAPS Workshop provides travel support for students and researchers to the MAPS workshop attendees. It will cover airfare, transportation, lodging for two days, and registrations for the MAPS workshop.

Recipients must be associated with U.S. institutions. Priorities will be given to:

• Students whose participation improves the diversity of computing research.
• Applicants who could not attend without a travel award.
• Authors of papers accepted to MAPS
• U.S. citizens and permanent residents.

Please apply through this form. The application deadline is Nov 10. We expect to announce the recipients on Nov 15. If you have any questions, please email Tianyi Zhang (tianyi@purdue.edu) or Baishakhi Ray (rayb@cs.columbia.edu).

SDD Workshop Travel Support

Travel support to attend the First International Workshop on Software Defect Datasets (SDD) (https://2023.esec-fse.org/home/sdd-2023) is available. Recipients must be associated with U.S. institutions. Support includes domestic airfare, ground transportation, lodging for two days (up to $275.00 per day), and registration to the SDD workshop.

Please apply through the following form: https://forms.gle/p2HzkXMHEtStpMeL9.

The application deadline is November 15th, 2023, but applications will be reviewed as they are received. Selected applicants will be contacted no later than November 17th, 2023. If you have any questions, please email the workshop organizer Cindy Rubio-Gonzalez (crubio@ucdavis.edu).