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style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none"><span
style="color:black">The National Science Foundation (NSF) and
Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) are pleased to announce
that they will sponsor a maximum of 20 young researchers to
attend the 3rd annual Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Heidelberg,
Germany, from August 23 through 28, 2015. NSF and ORAU invite
your institution to nominate </span><b><span lang="EN">computer
science and mathematics </span></b><span style="color:black">graduate
students and postdocs to be members of the U.S. Delegation to
this prestigious meeting.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none"><span
lang="EN">The HLF offers accepted young researchers the great
opportunity to personally meet the </span>winners of the most
prestigious prizes in their fields. For one week, the recipients
of the Abel Prize, the ACM A.M. Turing Award, the Fields Medal,
and the Nevanlinna Prize<span lang="EN"> engage in a
cross-generational scientific dialogue with young researchers in
Heidelberg, Germany.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none"><span
lang="EN">During the HLF week, young researchers will be given
the exclusive possibility to profoundly connect with their
scientific role models and find out how they made it to the top
of their fields. 24 laureates attended the 2nd HLF, including
Martin Hairer and Manjul Bhargava, both 2014 Fields Medalists,
and Leslie Lamport, the current winner of the ACM A.M. Turing
Award. Together with their fellow laureates, they shared their
knowledge with 200 outstanding young researchers from nearly 60
different countries. The Forum format consists of </span><span
style="color:black">formal lectures in the morning, and the
remainder of the day is set aside for the young researchers to
meet informally with the Laureate scientists, as well as with
their peers from around the world.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify"><b><span
lang="EN">Applications must be submitted online at </span></b><span
lang="DE"><a
href="http://application.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/"><b><span
lang="EN">http://application.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org</span></b></a><b>
</b></span><b><span lang="EN">by February 28, 2015. For more
information, please visit: </span></b><span lang="DE"><a
href="http://www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/"><b><span
lang="EN">www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org</span></b></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none"><span
style="color:black">Once accepted to the meetings, students will
be invited to apply for funding from ORAU and the NSF.
Delegation members will receive all business-related expenses to
attend the HLF along with some additional benefits. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none"><span
style="color:black">If you have any questions or need further
information, please feel free to contact me directly.</span><o:p></o:p><span
style="color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none"><span
style="color:black">Best Regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span
style="color:#1F497D">Michael Ickowitz</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><a
href="http://sharepoint.orau.net/sawd/"><span
style="color:#1F497D;text-decoration:none">Scientific
Assessment and Workforce Development</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="color:#1F497D">International Programs</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span
style="color:#547ED9">ORAU</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span
style="color:#1F497D">P.O. Box 117, MS 36</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span
style="color:#1F497D">Oak Ridge, TN 37831</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<span style="color:#1F497D">USA</span>
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