SIGIR 2006 Student & New Researcher Travel Support

SIGIR invites applications for small awards to help cover the cost
of travel, subsistence, and registration to the SIGIR 2006 conference. 

Preference will be given to

An applicant who is the principal author of a paper and will
be presenting the paper at SIGIR. 

An applicant who is attending of the doctoral consortium. 

Principal authors of posters or demos who are presenting their
work may also receive funding if budget permits. 
Authors who are not presenting will not be funded. 

It is assumed that applicants
have only limited alternative travel support. 
Your advisor will be asked to confirm that your institution
cannot provide significant levels of travel support. 

The deadline for applying for student travel support is May 8.  Decisions will
be announced by May 22. 

The application form is below. 
All fields must be completed. 
Return completed applications before May 1 to
Beti Dimitrievska
by email (beti.dimitrievska@rmit.edu.au).  Do not send
HTML or DOC versions of the form; send an ASCII or plain text version only.