These allowances are scaled more or less inversely according to the seniority of the participant. Any housing reimbursement a participant receives from his or her home institution will reduce the dislocation allowance. Some funds may be available for additional dislocation grants for foreign participants, but these are very limited, and foreign participants are urged to obtain travel funds from their own institutions. The Jacob Shaham Fellowship Fund has been established in his honor by his family and friends to provide limited additional financial support for first-time attendees who would otherwise be unable to participate in Center activities. The Aspen Center for Physics rents fully furnished apartments and condominiums for the summer season, and sublets them to participants.
Housing is assigned primarily on the basis of immediate family needs.
Since we always operate at or near capacity, there is very little flexibility in the housing arrangements, and it is not practical to give questions of rank, etc., more than secondary consideration. You may find you have a smaller apartment than you may be used to. Participants will be billed for the actual cost of housing. The Aspen Center for Physics is committed to helping participants bring their families with them to Aspen in the summer. We are fortunate in that daycare in the Aspen area is unusually plentiful, diverse, and available on short notice or on a drop-in basis.