Travel Support

IMS Laha Travel Award

The Laha Award provides funds for travel to present a paper at the IMS Annual Meeting. First priority is given to students, second priority to New Researchers within 2 years of Ph.D. degree at the date of the meeting.  Applicants must be members of IMS, though joining at the time of application is allowed. The deadline for the applications is February 1, 2006.

Please see Laha Travel Award for more information and application information.

Travel Support from EBP

The organization of the School has a limited number of fellowships for young researchers and students, and special support for Latin American Ph.D. students and researchers. The deadline to apply for financial support is April 1, 2006, with answers to be out by June 30, 2006.

Participants from Latin America are encouraged to ask travel support to the Unión Matemática de América Latina y el Caribe. Please contact directly UMALCA.

Please see the EBP web site for more information and application details: http://www.impa.br/opencms/pt/eventos/store/evento_0002.html

IMS Child Care Initiative

The purpose of the initiative is to encourage and support the participation at IMS Annual Meetings of IMS members having child care responsibilities.

The IMS will reimburse members 80% of the costs of privately arranged child care (For a dependent under the age of 13) at the IMS Annual Meeting, up to a maximum of US$250 per family. Priority will be given to those presenting papers or posters at the meeting. Not more than 40 grants may be awarded. The deadline for the applications is June 1, 2006.

Please see IMS Child Care Initiative for more information and application information.

Travel Support from NSF

Funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation is expected, to help support travel costs of new researchers and members of underrepresented groups from the United States participating in the joint event 2006 IMS Annual Meeting & Tenth Brazilian School of Probability.

New researchers are those who received a Ph.D. in 2003 or later, or advanced graduate students working on Ph.D. dissertations. All applicants must be affiliated with a U.S. institution and residing in the United States. Following standard NSF restrictions, recipients of travel grant funds for airfare must travel on U.S. carriers. All grant recipients must provide receipts for expenses to be reimbursed, whether for airfare or subsistence.

Applications should be sent until April 1, 2006. The applicants can use the form and general procedures in this webpage, with the addition of brief vita including education, current position, current research interests and a list of publications. The application should contain information on any U.S. federal research or other grants held, and the affirmation to meet the eligibility criteria given above. This extra information should be sent by email, preferably in pdf format, to xebp@impa.br

U.S. Researcher responsible for the application:
Professor Gregory Lawler
Mathematics Department
Cornell University