MICRO-42 Travel Grants
Student Travel Grants
As in years past, MICRO will provide travel grants to students and junior faculty. These grants are intended to partially cover travel and symposium expenses. To receive a grant, you must register for the symposium and pay in full at the appropriate level (e.g., student, ACM/IEEE member, non-ACM/non-IEEE member). Because the grants can only be used for reimbursing conference related expenses, be sure to keep your receipts. These will be collected at the conference.
To apply for a grant, send email to Anne Bracy (bracy at acm dot org) with the subject line "MICRO-42 Travel Grant". The body of the message should include:
- Your name
- Your affiliation
- Whether you are a student or junior faculty
- Whether you are a co-author of one of the papers in either the main symposium or one of the workshops (please give the name of the paper as well) and whether you will be presenting the paper
- Your estimated costs
Applications are due Monday, November 23, 2009. Priority will be given to students, especially
presenters and paper co-authors. We will also try to distribute awards to a
large number of research groups.
Applicants will be notified of their grant status by Monday, November 30. 2009 Wednesday, December 2, 2009 (apologies for the delay). Reimbursement instructions will follow shortly thereafter. The final award amounts will be determined at the end of the conference.
SIGMICRO Financial Hardship Grants
SIGMICRO is pleased to offer limited and partial financial hardship grants to attendees of this year's MICRO. Such grants are intended to defray the costs for attendees with demonstrated hardship in attending MICRO.
Applications for this funding should consider the guidelines below and then email Anne Bracy (bracy at acm dot org) with the subject line
"MICRO-42 Travel Grant". In addition to the student grant application information above, please include a brief description of the rationale for requiring a financial hardship grants. As for student travel grants, the deadline will be November 23, 2009, with notification by November 30.
Areas of hardship include the following:
- Attendees from poor countries who cannot afford the full cost.
- A person with a physical disability necessitating extra travel restrictions, such as extra overnight stopovers or a travel companion.
- A parent of an infant less than one year old who cannot travel without the infant and a care-provider for the infant.
Other hardships will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
CAVEATS:
- Any costs that would otherwise be covered by your employer, educational or other institution, or by research grants are not eligible.
- Costs must reflect an economical mode of travel, e.g. no first class airline tickets.
- For this MICRO, we define a poor country as having a per capita income less than 20% of the per capita income in the United States.
- The only costs covered for companion travel are those incurred solely for the transportation of the companion. Shared transportation expenses, such as taxis, and non-transportation costs, such as room and board, are not covered.