Financial Aid
[Financial Aid Policy]


Interface offers a limited number of financial aid awards in the form of reimbursements for up to $500.00 in travel and conference costs. Preference is given to young faculty and students with demonstrated financial need, and who are presenting authors.

To apply for financial aid, send email to Amy.Braverman@jpl.nasa.gov no later than April 1, 2006. Please provide the following information in this form:

  1. Put "Interface financial aid request" in the subject line.
  2. Put your name followed by your affiliation in parentheses on the first line of the email body. Your affiliation is your institution, your department or organization within the institution, and your position, in that order. If you are a student, your position is "student".
  3. Put your email address on the next line.
  4. Skip a line.
  5. On the next line, type "1. " and state whether or not you have ever attended an Interface Symposium before. If you have, please state when and where. If you received financial aid from Interface to attend, please also state that you did, and the amount you received. If you attended more than one Interface Symposium, use a separate line (or lines) for each case and skip a line between cases.
  6. Skip a line.
  7. Type "2. ", then please state why you need our help to attend Interface 2006. (Try to be more specific than "I don't have the money." Tell us a little bit about your situation.)
  8. Skip a line.
  9. Type "3. ", then please tell us why you want to attend Interface 2006. (Try to be more specific than "This looks like an interesting conference." Tell us a little bit about your work and how it relates to Interface themes and interests.)
  10. Skip a line.
  11. Type "4. ", then tell us if you have submitted or plan to submit a talk to Interface 2006. Please give us the title or a tentative title, and state the type of submission. The submission type is one of "Invited", "Special Focus", "Refereed", or "Contributed". If you do not plan to submit, please put "None" after "4. ".
  12. Skip a line.
  13. Type "5. ", then state the approximate amount of the reimbursement you expect to need. Keep in mind that the limit is $500.
If you do not receive a confirmation within 7 days, please email Amy for an acknowledgment (or simply to inquire).

Awards will be made no later than April 15, 2006.



Interface 2006 Financial Aid Policy


Interface is a non-profit professional organization with a limited budget. The money we use to provide financial aid comes primarily from grants, and we usually can't provide support to all worthy candidates. Therefore, we must prioritize.

Our purpose in giving financial aid is to encourage participation of i) young researchers, ii) students, and iii) interested practitioners from other disciplines for whom Interface is not a mainstream conference and who could not otherwise afford to attend. We try to spread the aid among applicants in a way that does the most good for the most number of people. Usually this means that we do not provide aid to attendees from commercial organizations, or cover anyone's expenses entirely. In fact, the maximum award to any individual is limited to $500.

Preference is given to people in categories i), ii), and ii) above who are presenting authors and who have never attended an Interface Symposium. Among similarly qualified candidates, we try to match the level of aid roughly to the level of expenses (up to the $500 maximum). Recipients of financial aid are expected to attend the entire symposium.

Due to restrictions imposed on us by our funding sources, all Interface financial aid is in the form of reimbursements for allowable expenses. Therefore, aid recipients need to cover their own expenses, and fill out the reimbursement form that will be available on the Interface 2006 website after the meeting. The following rules apply: