Travel
Support
Limited travel support for junior level participants is
available from the Materials Computation Center.
Travel Award Program
(MCC-UIUC)
Support is available to faculty, postdocs, students or
research scientists at US universities; junior faculty from
smaller institutions are particularly encouraged to apply.
We will consider individuals from research areas
overlapping with those of MCC: condensed matter physics,
chemistry, materials science and computer science.
Please note: While US-based scientists at government or
private research labs may apply on a case-by-case basis,
travel support is preferentially awarded to junior
scientists and to under-represented groups at universities.
Employees of NASA, DOD or DOE laboratories are not eligible
for MCC travel support.
What does the support cover?
Funding will support travel to and from the
workshop and cover local expenses during the workshop. In
some cases, only partial funding will be available.
Deadline: July 4, 2007
Obtaining travel support
To get support you must:
1. Visit the workshop's website and complete a workshop
application.
2. Complete the online MCC Travel Support application, to
apply for travel support from the NSF. Late travel support
applications will be accepted, but are given lower funding
priority.
The MCC travel officer will inform you of any award thirty
days after the travel support application due date.
It is the responsibility of the traveler to obtain any
required visas from the appropriate embassy or nearest
consulate of the country. Be sure to allow sufficient time
for processing any visa applications.
Reimbursement after travel
The traveler will be reimbursed only after all
travel-related receipts, a Travel Reimbursement Form, and a
scientific report have been received by the MCC travel
officer. NSF rules apply to this travel reimbursement,
along with other guidelines given in the Travel Award
Instructions (PDF).
Please email the MCC travel officer if you have questions.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Q: I've submitted my application several
months in advance of the application deadline -- is it
possible to get an early decision?
A: No, very likely not, for two reasons.
One, we evaluate the applications after the workshop
organizers have accepted applicants to the workshop itself.
Two, typically the Travel Officer reviews all the
applications at one time, after the Travel Support deadline
for that event has passed. In case there are more
applicants than we can fund, this is fair to all the
applicants. The deadline is usually 90 days before the
workshop/event date, to give the Travel Committee time to
review the applications and inform the applicants, with
more than 60 days before the event starting date, so that
awardees can make any travel arrangements.
Forms, Applications, Instructions
MCC
Travel Support application
Travel
Award Instructions
Travel
Reimbursement Form
