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Financial Assistance

There are a few sources of financial assistance available to delegates wishing to attend PRIMA 2009. Details of each are given below.

Financial Hardship

The organisers have the discretion to reduce or waive the registration fee in cases of financial hardship. This applies in particular to delegates who are not eligible for the other sources of assistance described below. If you would like to request this, please contact the Local Arrangements Committee (prima2009@maths.unsw.edu.au) before 23 February 2009. A response will be provided by 26 February 2009.

Australian and New Zealand

Thanks to the generous sponsorship of The Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI), the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems (MASCOS) and Australia and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ANZIAM), funds are available for Australian students and early career researchers and New Zealand students wishing to attend PRIMA 2009.  We aim to waive the registration fee and provide accommodation for a limited number of applicants. 

Please contact the Local Arrangements Committee (prima2009@maths.unsw.edu.au) for further details before registering or booking accommodation if you wish to request this assistance. 

The application deadline is 30 March 2009; applicants will be notified by 3 April.

Delegates from Institutions in the USA

Thanks to a generous grant from the US National Science Foundation (NSF), funding is available to support the travel expenses of delegates from institutions situated in the United States of America (regardless of their citizenship). Individual support amounts will depend on whether the participant has any other sources of funding, and the prospects of the individual benefitting from one of more of the PRIMA 2009 special sessions. Applications from underrepresented groups, including women, minorities and handicapped people, are strongly encouraged.

A Selection Committee of six scientists, chaired by Douglas Lind (University of Washington), will consider all applications and make travel support decisions.

The NSF travel funds are restricted to use on US air carriers only

To apply for travel funding, please click here.

Delegates from MSRI Academic Sponsor Institutions

The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) in Berkeley has generously agreed to provide some additional support for travel by delegates from its Academic Sponsors. MSRI Academic Sponsors include 80 institutions from the US and Canada, together with the following international institutions:

CINVESTAV del IPN, Mexico
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong
Instituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica "Francesco Severi" (INdAM), Italy
Reykjavik University Mathematics Institute, Iceland
Seoul National University, Korea
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay

The application process will be similar to that for the NSF funding, and will be considered by the same Selection Committee. The MSRI travel funds are restricted to use on US air carriers only.

To apply for travel funding, please click here.
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