Financial Support

Financial support may only be available to those EU participants who will offer to present a contribution (talk or poster) at the Conference. An application for funding can be made if you belong to one of the Networks mentiioned below.

Specifically:

• If you belong to one of the research teams of the TMR Network on 'Ab initio calculations of magnetic properties of surfaces, interfaces and multilayers' (TMR1), i.e. if you are associated with one of the following nodes whose leaders are: Peter Weinberger (Austria), Hugues Dreyssé (France), Peter Dederichs (Germany), Börje Johansson (Sweden), Paul Kelly (The Netherlands) and Walter Temmerman (UK), and the subject matter of your contribution concerns Interface Magnetism, then your costs, if approved, may be partially met by the relevant node. If this applies to you please contact the above mentioned node leaders.

• If you belong to one of the research teams of the TMR Network on 'Electronic structure calculations of materials properties and processes for industry and basic science' (TMR2), and the subject matter of your contribution is relevant to, and approved by, one of the nodes in this TMR Network, then your costs may be partially met by the Daresbury node (contact Walter Temmerman for details).

• If you do not fall in any of the two above categories, but your Institution is in one of the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, then your costs, if approved, may be partially met by the ESF programme STRUC (contact Walter Temmerman for details).

• If you belong to one of the research teams of the RTN Network on 'Computational Magnetoelectronics' and the subject matter of your contribution concerns Computational Magnetoelectronics, then your costs, if approved, may be partially met by the relevant national node. If this applies to you please contact for Austria: Peter Weinberger, for France: Albert Fert, for Germany: Peter Dederichs or Patrick Bruno, for Sweden: Börje Johansson, for The Netherlands: Paul Kelly, for Hungary: Janos Kollar, for the Czech Republic: Ilja Turek, the US: Peter Levy and for the UK: Walter Temmerman.

• EU funds are available to support a limited number of young participants from Greece, Spain, Italy and Portugal. Please apply to Walter Temmerman for details.

Applicants will be notified in the middle of June concerning the amount of financial support awarded.

Unfortunately, the EU and their INCO programme has no funding for the participation of other Eastern Europeans (Russia, Ukraine, etc.).

NSF Funds for Partial Travel Support: NSF funds are expected to be available to provide partial support to approximately 15 U.S.-based scientists to attend the Psi-k2000 Conference to enhance U.S. participation. Support in an amount not to exceed $1000 toward travel, registration, and local living expenses at the Conference site will be awarded to about fifteen persons. This award amount is made in the expectation that remaining costs will be covered from other sources. These awards are intended primarily for younger members of the community -- graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and young faculty -- who do not have their own sources of funding for this conference. In the event that many more worthy applications are received than can be approved, choices will be made in consideration of research speciality, type of institution, gender, and diversity of background. The objective will be to send as wide a variety of attendees as is consistent with the applicant pool. Selection of awardees will be made by a committee headed by the Principal Investigator (who is a member of the International Advisory Committee of the Conference), and including at least two, possibly three, other senior-level leaders in the U.S. electronic structure community. Awardees will be notified within a matter of days after the committee decisions are made. If any awards are declined, offers will be made to alternates chosen by the committee. Contact Warren Pickett at pickett@physics.ucdavis.edu for an online application form.

We are not in a position to provide funding for participants coming from other non-European Institutions and these participants are advised to contact the appropriate member of the International Advisory Board if they request funding.