Competitive funding now in place (updated June 2010)

Assessment of proposals is now competitive, a number of funding rounds will be held throughout the year.

Applications must normally be for events to be held no less than three months after the closing date.

Final reports and the invoice for sponsorship must be received within 90 days after the event for payment.

Workshops

Calls for workshop proposals will be made on a regular schedule and will be judged on a competitive basis.  The maximum sum per request is now $10,000.

$100,000 has been allocated to the Scientific Advisory Committee for 2010 workshops and continuing commitments.

Funding round close dates:

1 December 2010

3 March 2011

2 June 2011

Special Theme Programs and Hot Topics Workshops

An additional $25,000 will be allocated for the funding of Special Theme Programs and Hot Topics Workshops along the lines of those at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications in Minneapolis.

Applications can be made at any time (see Guidelines below for more information)

The new arrangements will be reviewed at the end of 2010.

Guidelines (updated June 2010)

Assessment of proposals is competitive based on scientific merit and likely national impact.

Workshops and conferences usually run for between one and five days, and address a specific field, or even a particular research problem.

Funding can be provided to fully or partially support travel and accommodation of some invited speakers and is usually in the range of $1,000 to $10,000, dependent on the size of the event. Catering and venue hire will not normally be covered.

Applicants are encouraged to use AMSI premises if practicable as they are modern, very well equipped and centrally located, with good access to transport and a range of hotels and other accommodation.

Please provide proposals in plain text or pdf format only.

A proposal for a workshop must include:

• adequate motivation for the meeting, including a case for national benefit
• your funding request to AMSI
• a full budget including contributions from all sources
• a list of the main invited speakers with reasons for their choice
• the number of likely attendees from Australia including students and post docs
• names of some of the key attendees

AMSI will not support regular workshops, conferences or other meetings. However, it may support workshops that are run in parallel with such gatherings. The proposal should make it clear that support is not being sought for the regular meeting, but to expand/increase participation in the associated workshop. AMSI will not usually fund special sessions at conferences. We may support satellite meetings associated with major conferences.

AMSI provides sponsorship for particular expenses, normally travel and/or accommodation for nominated invited speakers. Travel and accommodation for other attendees may be available through the AMSI travel funds .

AMSI does not provide sponsorship for administrative expenses, venue hire or catering.

Special Theme Programs and Hot Topics Workshops (updated June 2010) Hot topics

workshops should focus on specific and emergent areas of research and must include the involvement of key players. Organisers should identify the intended strategic outcomes, including advances in research, of the workshop and make  a case for the national benefit of these outcomes.

Hot topics workshop applications can be made at any time, however they will only be approved when the application could not have been made to one of the regular workshop competitions.  This will usually because some exceptional opportunity has emerged that could not have been anticipated. It is up to the proposer to make the case that his or her request could not have been otherwise handled. In addition, such requests must in the Advisory Committee's view be at least of the same quality as that of recent AMSI funded workshops.

Special Theme Programs

AMSI occasionally funds Special Theme Programs, supporting (i) a relatively long period of research interaction or (ii) emerging topics of an especially timely nature; involving both workshop-type activity and collaborative research.

Please contact AMSI for further information if you are considering organising such an event.

Applications

Expressions of Interest should be addressed to:

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c/o Simi Henderson
AMSI
111 Barry Street
University of Melbourne
VIC 3010