Travel Support

Travel Support

Any overseas programer who wants to participate in Category A of the UEC Cup can apply this grant. Each successful candidate can claim travel expense (round trip transportation and hotel charge), but in return, he or she should owe a duty to give a half-hour talk including a question period in a special session in UEC on March 16th. We are planning to select 1 or 2 programmers. Below we provide detailed information.

[Qualifications and responsibilities]

  1. - Applicant should be a programmer from outside Japan who can participate in Category A.

  2. - Successful candidate must give a half-hour short lecture in on March 16.

[Application procedure]

  1. Submit abstract of a possible talk, a A4 document about the reason for the necessity of this grant, and abstract about plans about your stay in Japan:

  2. uec_cup_grants[at]googlegroups.com

  3. (Please replace [at] with @ in the above address.)

  4. The talk should have something to do with computer Go.It is more desirable that the talk explains original techniques used in the applicant's program.

  5. Please include the following items in the application.

    1. (1) Program name

    2. (2) All the developers' names and their affiliations

    3. (3) Name of the person requesting the support

    4. (4) A rough estimate of round trip transportation expense

[Deadline]

  1. January 15th (Thursday, JST).

[Notice]

  1. Anyone who submit an application form shall receive a notice of acceptance of the application within 2 days from submission, except Saturday and Sunday. If you do not, please let us know as soon as possible. Mails from hotmail or other free mail are sometimes rejected or filtered as a result of being recognized as spam, so we recommend applicants to submit mail from a more reliable mailing address.

    Feel free to ask any questions about this grant support to the above mailing address.