for Attendance at the ANZIAM and Special Interest Group Conferences

1 Introduction

The CSIRO/ANZIAM Student Support Scheme (SSS) is designed to provide funding to support conference travel and registration for students studying at universities in Australia and New Zealand, who wish to attend the ANZIAM conference or those of the special interest groups. These are, specifically, the Maths in Industry Study Group (MSIG), the CTAC conference of the Computational Mathematics Group, the EMACS conference of the Engineering Mathematics Group and the Mathsport conference of the Mathematics and Computers in Sport Group. The scheme will be funded by the annual sponsorship that has been provided to ANZIAM by CSIRO, together with any supplementary funding that the ANZIAM Executive may wish to vote.

The objectives of the SSS are:

• To help students attend conferences relevant to their interests
• To emphasize the importance of students giving presentations about their work
• To provide a first step educating students in ways of obtaining funding to help their research efforts.

In order to be eligible for funding, students will be required to present a talk at the conference. It is expected that students will have discussed their plans with their supervisors, and supervisor endorsement of applications is required.

If students are not already members of ANZIAM, they must join at the time of making their application. The committee may wish to give preference to students who are already members of ANZIAM themselves and whose supervisors are members of ANZIAM, who will be attending the same conference.

2 Background

ANZIAM believes that all research students in applied mathematics should be encouraged to attend conferences and present their results on a regular basis. The benefits to both the students and the applied mathematics community in general that derive from students having the opportunity to receive feedback on their work and to network with both senior colleagues and other students are invaluable.

The SSS has been designed to help students attend conferences and also to give them a relatively painless initial experience in making applications for funding.

The SSS is based on the principle that students should provide a complete budget for their travel, registration and accommodation, attempt to obtain partial funding from other sources and request the gap between what they can obtain elsewhere and the total amount that they need from the SSS.

3 Budget and Operation of the Scheme

The ANZIAM Executive will allocate a budget to the scheme each year, which shall at least include the designated component of the CSIRO contribution.

A panel of three ANZIAM members, including a CSIRO representative, shall be constituted to make decisions on the applications. The panel will have discretion to make decisions on each application, taking into account the individual circumstances of the students involved. Overall the panel will be responsible for treating applications fairly according to the principles of the scheme and spreading the budget out equitably over each of the eligible conferences.

Applications should be made on the attached form. The committee will set a deadline for applications for each of the eligible conferences. It will also have the discretion to consider applications outside of this timetable if it believes that there is justification.

The full cost of the travel, registration, airfares, transfer fares, accommodation and conference dinner should be itemized in the application.

Details of support obtained, or applied for, from other sources (or an explanation as to why there are none) should also be given, together with the amount that the student is requesting from the scheme.

 

4 Application Procedure

Download and complete the following form:

• Application form

and mail to Chair of the Student Support Committee.

 

For CTAC 2010 the deadline for applications is October 22nd 2010, and for ANZIAM 2011 and MISG 2011 the deadline is December 17th 2010.