TRAVEL GRANTS FOR U.S. PARTICIPANTS

Important information to all applicants: You should have received an acknowledgment of receipt of your application. If not, to make sure your application was received, please resend your application to Laura_Leddy@brown.edu.

Funding is available from the U.S. National Science Foundation for a block travel grant to help in defraying the travel costs of junior researchers, women and members of underrepresented minorities from the United States participating in the 16th INFORMS Applied Probability Conference, July 6-8, 2011, Stockholm, Sweden.

Junior researchers are those who received their Ph.D.'s in 2004 or later, or who are advanced graduate students working on Ph.D. dissertations. All applicants must be affiliated with a U.S. institution, reside in the U.S., and not have an individual NSF grant. Following standard NSF restrictions concerning travel, recipients of travel grant funds for airfare must travel on U.S. carriers or one of the following EU carriers: Lufthansa, Air France, British Air or KLM. All grant recipients must provide receipts for expenses to be reimbursed, whether for airfare, lodging or subsistence, and the receipt must show that you paid. These will need to be submitted after the conference and without delay by mail with the Brown University travel form which will be handed out at the conference along with an addressed envelope.

Applications received by March 31, 2011, will receive full consideration. Applications will be reviewed by a committee consisting of the organising committee and certain members of the organizing committee of the Newton Institute program on Stochastic Processes in the Communication Sciences held in 2010. It is anticipated that applicants will be notified of the results of their applications on or before April 8, 2011.

Each application must include items 1-7 below in the form of one single pdf file that should be e-mailed to Laura Leddy at

Laura_Leddy@brown.edu with "APS Conference Travel Grant Application" included in the subject of the e-mail.

1. A statement that the applicant meets the eligibility criteria given above.

2. A two page vita including education (all applicants except current Ph.D. students should include Ph.D. year, institution and dissertation title), current position, current research interests, complete list of publications.

3. Expected level of participation at the conference, e.g., will give a talk or have submitted an abstract for a contributed talk (include title and abstract).

4. Complete mailing address and e-mail address.

5. Any federal research or other grants held, and any travel funds applied for.

6. The rough amount of funding requested.

7. In addition, advanced Ph.D. student applicants should have their dissertation advisor send a brief letter of recommendation directly

by e-mail to Laura Leddy at Laura_Leddy@brown.edu with "APS Conference Travel Grant Application" included in the subject of the e-mail.