VIGRE Travel Support

How to apply for travel money under the VIGRE grant:

1) Please complete the Travel Funding Request Form (located at the bottom of this page). On the form, be sure to:
-Complete the one paragraph description of the nature of the conference/workshop/meeting that you plan to attend. Include the benefits from your participation and if you are giving a talk. 
-List the costs necessary to attend the meeting. These should include travel and lodging expenses. In most cases, we will not cover cost for meals. 

2) If you are a student, please have your advisor send us a short statement supporting your application for travel money. For postdocs, we will look at your statement and may contact your research and/or teaching mentors. 

3) Regular faculty (US citizens and permanent residents) can apply for VIGRE travel money from the "tag-along" program. This program is intended to cover student travel expenses and can by up to 50% of the accompanying faculty expenses to the meeting. Faculty interested in using tag-along funds should also complete the Travel Funding Request Form.

4) Please submit your materials to the VIGRE Director (nakano@math.uga.edu) no later than 3 weeks before your travel departure date. The final decisions on funding will be made by the VIGRE Committee. Note that only US citizens and permanent residents (student and postdocs) may be supported from the VIGRE grant. For other travel requests (non US citizens students), please contact the Graduate Director, Brian Boe. Postdocs who are non US citizens should contact the Personnel Committee. 

5) Once you have received approval notification from the VIGRE Director, please complete the Travel Authority form and submit it to Heather Adams (room 434B).

Travel funding is also available from the Graduate School for students invited to present a paper at a professional meeting within the U.S. See http://www.uga.edu/gradschool/financial/travel.html for detailed guidelines. Requests must be made by the following deadlines (please submit your requests to the Graduate Coordinator at least one week before these dates):

Travel Dates		Request Deadline
Jan. 1 - Mar. 31		Dec. 15
Apr. 1 - Jun. 14		Mar. 15
Jun. 15 - Sep. 30		Jun. 1
Oct. 1 - Dec. 31		Sep. 15

For travel outside the U.S., funding is available from the Vice President for Research. See http://www.ovpr.uga.edu/docs/policies/iga/FT-Guidelines.pdf. 

Deadlines are as follows:

Travel Dates		Request Deadline
Mar. 1 - May 31		Second Tuesday in Jan.
Jun. 1 - Aug. 31		Second Tuesday in Mar.
Sep. 1 - Nov. 30		Second Tuesday in Jun.
Dec. 1 - Feb. 28		Second Tuesday in Oct.


To view the VIGRE Travel Funding Request Form, click here.
To download a Word version of the Travel Funding Request Form, click here.
To download a LaTeX version of the Travel Funding Request Form, click here.