Travel Awards & Lectureships
APS Awards and Lectureships
The following lectureships and award program are intended to encourage collaborations with physicists in developing countries and to bring international speakers to the annual APS March and April meetings.
International Travel Grant Award Program
The International Travel Grant Award Program (ITGAP) was established to promote international scientific collaborations between APS members and physicists in developing countries. Grant recipients receive up to US$2,000 for travel and lodging expenses for international travel while visiting a collaborator for at least one month. The deadline for the next cycle of awards will be announced in the spring of 2008.
Beller Lectureship
The Beller Lectureship was endowed by Esther Hoffman Beller for the purpose of bringing distinguished physicists from abroad as invited speakers at APS meetings.
Marshak Lectureship
The Marshak Lectureship, endowed by the late Ruth Marshak in honor of her late husband and former APS president, Robert Marshak, is to provide travel support for physicists from "developing nations or the Eastern Bloc" invited to speak at APS meetings.
APS and the Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) have signed an agreement establishing program that sponsors the exchange of physicists and physics graduate students between India and the United States. Read more in APS News.
Other Awards and Lectureships
IIASA's Summer Fellowship in Austria for Graduate Students in Natural and Social Sciences, Math, Policy and Engineering. Each summer the unique three-month program offers 50 successful applicants the opportunity to work alongside distinguished IIASA scientists on a project related to their own doctoral research.
Leiden Observatory and the Leids Universiteitfonds in Leiden, the Netherlands, are accepting applications for the J. Mayo Greenberg Scholarship Prize for 2009. The prize is for a graduate student (preference for students in developing countries) to study or conduct research at Leiden Observatory in a field of interest to Professor Greenberg. The application deadline is 30 November 2008. Read more (PDF).
