Travel

When you are traveling to a conference to give a paper, poster pr workshop, I will do my best to support your travel (usually, one trip domestic, one trip international.)

The best way top convince people to support you is to submit your travel request this way:

1. Name of conference and some sense of how good it is.

2. Title of your paper and type (paper, poster, etc.)

3. Attach your letter of acceptance, along with anything they subsidize (sometimes deep discounts on hotel, some times the entry fee is waived). They usually waive conference fees if you CALL them and say you are a poor student. I did that for 10 years.

4. Send your proposed budget in Canadian dollars:

Dates of travel:*

Airfare: $

Hotel: $

Per Diem: $ 40. per day x number of days in N. America

            $ 45 per day x number of days abroad

            (Note: I'm not sure they provide per diem for grad students but there is not loss in trying)

Ground transport: $ (make this as low as is reasonable)

Conference fees: $ (if they are waived, say so)**

TOTAL =

Minus FAS = -$350 (once a year) see Joyce for the application

Minus SIAT = -$350 (once a year) see Joyce for the application

GRAND TOTAL OUTSTANDING =_____________

The earlier you apply, the better.

• Note that each day is counted if you spend the most of your 24 hours in transit and at the destination. They don't pay days when most of that say is spent here; for example, they don't pay for per diems if you take a red eye out of Vancouver because you would have spent the majority of the day in Vancouver. The same holds from your departure city.

• The more people/institutions chip in, the greater your chances of covering the whole trip.

Send this info to me, Joyce, and Tiffany (Tiffany is helping Joyce while she is ill). Include your other co-supervisor if you have one. This formal application is more positively considered than if you have us guess or have to get back to you several times. Don't force us to guess or have to figure it out for you, because our time is sucked dry by university business. Plus, submitting it this way shows maturity and planning skills.