Travel Support for Post-doc/Early Career Attendees
SIAM has available limited travel support for post-docs and early career participants in SIAM conferences through a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation. (These awards do not apply to the SIAM Annual Meeting since the grant does not apply to this meeting.) You must be affiliated with a U.S. institution and at the time of the conference be within 5 years of your PhD. Travel support is in the amount of $550 plus a free registration at the conference (Note: free registration does not apply to conferences not run by SIAM.) Travel outside of the U.S.under this program must comply with the Fly America Act. See for example, http://www.tvlon.com/resources/FlyAct.html
Top priority will be given to candidates presenting papers at the meeting. An application for travel support must include:
- A letter from the applicant requesting support and providing the rationale for the request and explaining his/her interests.
- A one-page vita that includes their contact information, the date of award of their PhD, the institution awarding the PhD, and their advisor's name, and, if available, a URL for a working Web page, research interests, projects, and papers published
- A letter or e-mail from a colleague or advisor indicating why the candidate is deserving of receiving travel support and any special circumstances. (Not required but recommended)
- If applicable, the title(s) of the paper(s) to be presented (co-authored) by the candidate at the meeting. Preference will be given to candidates who are presenting their work at the conference
Applications should be sent to the SIAM office (Attention: Post-doc Travel Support Awards), 3600 Market Street, 6th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19104-2688. You may fax this application 215 386 7999. Applications by e-mail will also be accepted. Send to: meetings@siam.org and use the subject line "Post-doc travel XX10" or "Post-doc travel XXX10" as appropriate, where XX or XXX denotes the two or three letter conference code, for example DS or CSC (see below).
Deadlines for Conferences in 2010 and beyond
In order to provide more time for applicants to budget for the travel to SIAM conferences, SIAM has changed the deadlines for travel award applications for conferences in 2010 and beyond.
Complete applications must be received at the SIAM office approximately seven months before the first day of the conference for which support is requested. In addition, for full consideration, applicants must submit their abstract no later than seven months before the first day of the conference. The deadlines apply to all required application materials, and no late applications will be accepted.
Awardees will be notified by e-mail five months before the first day of the meeting. Checks for the awards will be given to the awardees when they arrive at the given conference and check in at the SIAM Registration Desk.
SIAM Conferences in 2010
SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing and Scientific Computing (PP10)
February 24-26, 2010
Hyatt Regency Seattle, Seattle, Washington
Awards for meetings listed below are subject to funding availability.
SIAM Conference on Imaging Science (IS10)
April 12-14, 2010
Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza, Chicago, Illinois
Application due date: September 14, 2009
SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM10)
April 29-May 1, 2010
The Columbus A Renaissance Hotel, Columbus, Ohio
Application due date: December 22, 2009
SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science (MS10)
May 23-26, 2010
Doubletree Hotel Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Application due date: October 26, 2009
SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics (DM10)
June 14-17, 2010
Hyatt Regency Austin, Austin, Texas
Application due date: November 16, 2009
SIAM Conference on the Life Sciences (LS10)
July 12-15, 2010
The David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Application due date: December 12, 2009
SIAM Workshop Celebrating Diversity at the Annual Meeting (AN10)
July 12-16, 2010
The David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Application due date: December 12, 2009
SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures (NW10)
August 16-19, 2010
Sheraton Society Hill Hotel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Application Due Date: February 8, 2010
SIAM Conference on Financial Mathematics and Engineering (FM10)
November 19-20, 2010
Hilton San Francisco Financial District, San Francisco, California
Applications Due Date: April 19, 2010