An application has been filed for this program to TUBITAK.
 
Young researchers under 35 and residing in Turkey are eligible for funding towards their travel expenses (accommodation and transportation) if they also submit an abstract for a contributed talk or poster to the congress and their abstract is accepted by the organizing committee. The researcher must be located outside Istanbul. Please send e-mail to mehmetoz@ku.edu.tr for application, including your name and university affiliation.

• Established by Institute of Mathematical Statistics with funds bequested by the late Professor Radha Govind Laha.
• To provide funds for travel to present a paper at the IMS Annual Meeting.
• First priority to students, second priority to New Researchers within 2 years of Ph.D. degree at the date of the meeting. Applicants must be members of IMS.
• Grants per award provided to Laha awardees have been typically around US$500. The actual amount of an award depends on the travel distance to the IMS statistical meeting. Grants will be reimbursed against receipts and may be combined with other sources of funding.
• All applications must be received by 1 February 2012.
• Visit www.imstat.org/awards/laha.html for more details and application instructions.

The ISI and the World Bank Group are pleased to announce their efforts to provide developing country participants with an opportunity to obtain funding to attend the next World Congress in Probability and Statistics in Istanbul, Turkey, from 9th-14th of July 2012.

Applicants of the World Bank Fund are required to be permanent residents of recognized developing countries in order to apply for funding to participate in the 8th World Congress in Probability and Statistics, in Istanbul, Turkey, July 9-14, 2012.

Those who wish to apply to the World Bank Fund for this Congress, please use the application form under this link

The application must include (in addition to the requirements under the above link):

• A copy of the submitted abstract.
• A copy of the curriculum vitae of the applicant.

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded funding to support about 20 US-based participants (young, minority and women) to travel to WCPS 2012.

Please see the announcements in the following links for further detail (posted in both doc and pdf formats)

Note: Participants must be in US and affiliated with a US institution, but they do not have to be US citizens.

Travel Grants by Elsevier and Stochastic Processes and Their Applications

The publishing company Elsevier and the journal Stochastic Processes and Their Applications - An Official Journal of the Bernoulli Society - support the congress with two Elsevier Travel Grants up to 500 Euros each. Eligible are young researchers (up to the age of 35). Having published in the journal SPA or any other Elsevier journal is preferred, but not a requirement.

To apply for the grant please send your CV, list of publications and abstract for a contributed talk you would like to give at the World Congress to enozel@ku.edu.tr. Please use the subject "SPA Elsevier Travel Award" in your e-mail subject line.

Your application should reach us no later than March 20, 2012.

Elsevier and Stochastic Processes and Their Applications also sponsor two additional Travel Awards to our satellite event "Pre-world-congress Meeting of Young Researchers in Probability and Statistics 2012 (PWCYPS 2012)". To apply, please visit http://pwc2012.ku.edu.tr/funding-application and fill in the unified application form for this event.

The IMS Child Care Initiative encourages and supports the participation at IMS Annual Meetings (including the Congress) of IMS members having child care responsibilities. (click here for application information)

 

IMU Funding for Travel

International Mathematical Union (IMU) supports conference participation by mathematicians from developing countries, defined as countries with a Gross National Income per Capita (Atlas method) lower than USD 7.500.

Students and junior researchers within 8 years of Ph.D. degree from developing countries are eligible for funding.

To apply for IMU funding for the Congress including participation at PWCYPS 2012, please use the funding application form. Send any inquiries to enozel@ku.edu.tr

The completed funding form should be submitted before March 20, 2012.