From feldman at pstat.ucsb.edu Wed Dec 1 11:09:06 2010 From: feldman at pstat.ucsb.edu (Raya Feldman) Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 09:09:06 -0800 (PST) Subject: [SCPG] SPA'11: travel grants for US participants Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Please broadcast the announcement below to graduate students and recent PhDs in the area of probability and stochastic processes; your help is greatly appreciated. TRAVEL GRANTS FOR U.S. PARTICIPANTS 35th Conference on Stochastic Processes and Their Applications Oaxaca, Mexico, June 19--24, 2011 Funding is anticipated from the U.S. National Science Foundation for a block travel grant to help in defraying the travel costs of junior researchers, women, and members of underrepresented minorities from the United States participating in the 35th Conference on Stochastic Processes and Their Applications, June 19-24 in Oaxaca, Mexico. Details of the meeting can be found at the conference webpage: http://www.matem.unam.mx/SPA2011/ Junior researchers are those who received their Ph.D.'s in 2005 or later, or who are advanced graduate students working on Ph.D. dissertations. All applicants must be affiliated with a U.S. institution, reside in the U.S., and not have an individual NSF grant. Following standard NSF restrictions concerning travel, recipients of travel grant funds for airfare must travel on U.S. carriers. All grant recipients must provide receipts for expenses to be reimbursed, whether for airfare, lodging or subsistence, and the receipt must show that you paid. These will need to be submitted after the conference and without delay by mail with the UC Santa Barbara travel form which can be found on line at http://www.pstat.ucsb.edu/forms/TRVLWRKSHTrembrsmntSPA2011.pdf Applications received by March 1, 2011, will receive full consideration. Applications will be reviewed by a committee consisting of selected past and current U.S. members of the Committee for Conferences on Stochastic Processes. It is anticipated that applicants will be notified of the results of their applications on or before March 29, 2011. Each application must include items 1-5 below in the form of one single pdf file: 1. A statement that the applicant meets the eligibility criteria given above. 2. A two page vita including education (all applicants except current Ph.D. students should include Ph.D. year, institution and dissertation title), current position, current research interests, complete list of publications. 3. Expected level of participation at the conference, e.g., will give a talk or have submitted an abstract for a contributed talk (include title and abstract). 4. Complete mailing address and e-mail address. 5. Any federal research or other grants held, and any travel funds applied for. 6. In addition, advanced Ph.D. student applicants should have their dissertation advisor send a brief letter of recommendation directly by email to spa11 at pstat.ucsb.edu . Those who are eligible and who wish to be considered for travel support should send their applications in the form of one single pdf file by e-mail, to spa11 at pstat.ucsb.edu. After the meeting, travel forms and receipts must be sent promptly by mail to Raya Feldman (SPA 2011 Travel Grants) Department of Statistics and Applied Probability University of California Santa Barbara, CA. 93106-3110. feldman at pstat.ucsb.edu From jschwein at math.ucsd.edu Thu Dec 2 10:45:47 2010 From: jschwein at math.ucsd.edu (Jason Schweinsberg) Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 08:45:47 -0800 (PST) Subject: [SCPG] Southern California Probability Symposium Message-ID: This message will serve as the last reminder that the Southern California Probability Symposium will be held this Saturday, December 4, at IPAM on the UCLA campus. Information about the conference can be found at http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~jschwein/scps10.html. If you have any questions, please send them to jschwein at math.ucsd.edu. Jason Schweinsberg