GPAP Student Travel Grant
Each year, the Topical Group in Plasma Astrophysics (GPAP) of the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics (APS DPP) offers several travel grants to enable GPAP student participation at the annual APS DPP meeting. This offer applies only to students who attend in-person and who present their research at DPP. Undergraduate and graduate students who will be presenting their research on topics in plasma astrophysics are eligible.
Prospective candidates should email a maximum one-page statement of need, motivating the request for a student travel grant, to the GPAP Chair with a copy to the Chair-Elect (see here).
The statement of need should include a brief description of the student’s research and how participation at the DPP meeting would benefit the student. The statement should thoroughly justify the student’s qualifications for a grant.
The application deadline will be around two months prior to the DPP meeting. Please write “Application for GPAP Travel Grant” in the subject line and include the following information:
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First Name and Family Name
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Affiliation
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Name and email-address of Advisor
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Mailing Address
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Email Address
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Presentation Title (denote oral or poster)
A request is appropriate only if the student would not attend, or have difficulty attending, without a student travel grant. A student who is first-author is more likely to receive an award than a student coauthor. The email message should thoroughly justify the student's qualifications for a travel grant.
The selected student recipients will be informed as early as possible before the DPP meeting. To receive the travel grant a selected student recipient will have to provide 1) Payment Request Form; 2) Bank information - Direct Deposit (US bank account) Wire Transfer (non-US Bank account); 3) Tax Form - W-9 US Citizen/Resident - W-8 non-US persons. The travel grant will not be paid should any of these documents not be provided by the selected student recipient.