{"id":1694,"date":"2011-05-26T13:37:21","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T17:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathgradblog.williams.edu\/?p=1694"},"modified":"2011-05-26T13:37:21","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T17:37:21","slug":"conference-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2011\/05\/26\/conference-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;line-height: 19px;font-size: 13px\">by Brian Simanek<\/span><\/pre>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;line-height: 19px;font-size: 13px\">Mathematics is a fundamentally collaborative discipline and as such, travel to conferences and workshops is an important part of any young mathematician's professional development.&nbsp; The only catch is that travel can be expensive (especially when leaving the country).&nbsp; Most graduate students I know have limited resources so the obvious question arises of how to pay for travel expenses.<\/span><\/pre>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>First of all, many conferences (indeed most conferences I know of) offer travel support.&nbsp; Generally it is true that the younger the participant, the more likely they are to receive travel funding.&nbsp; Sometimes the support offered by a conference does not meet the full expense of the travel so I will mention some alternatives to consider.<\/p>\n<p>To start, I would like to remind people of <a title=\"this\" href=\"http:\/\/mathgradblog.williams.edu\/?p=1498\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> earlier post by Kareem Carr with AMS travel grant information.&nbsp; This is an excellent resource for those who are eligible.<\/p>\n<p>Many universities have travel stipends available for graduate students.&nbsp; Ask the graduate Dean&#8217;s office if they can help with your travel expenses.&nbsp; You can also talk to you advisor.&nbsp; It is possible that he or she has an external funding source that can help pay for your travel or that your department has money designated for this purpose.<\/p>\n<p>As a final thought, don&#8217;t let the potential cost of traveling to a conference intimidate you or prevent you from attending.&nbsp; If you look in the right places and ask the right questions, you can probably find the necessary funding.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Brian Simanek Mathematics is a fundamentally collaborative discipline and as such, travel to conferences and workshops is an important part of any young mathematician&#8217;s professional development.&nbsp; The only catch is that travel can be expensive (especially when leaving the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2011\/05\/26\/conference-funding\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" data-url=https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2011\/05\/26\/conference-funding\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3gbww-rk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}