Academic conferences play a vital role in catalyzing scientific breakthroughs and technological innovations by providing forum for researchers and practitioners to meet and discuss new advances and get to know each other that helps with forming and nurturing collaborations.\u00a0However, attending a conference is expensive.<\/p>\n
We aim to provide few (unfortunately!) fellowships to students and scholars to partially cover expenses that they would otherwise incur out of their own personal funds.<\/p>\n
More in detail:<\/p>\n
1. We like our grant to be used to provide Fellowships of up to $250 each to n<\/em> attendees.\u00a0The value of n<\/em> can range from 10-20 depending upon the expected number of student attendees (roughly 10%). We insist that\u00a0the conference organizing\u00a0committee take\u00a0sole<\/em>\u00a0responsibility of defining the selection procedure, making the selections, and doing the disbursements.<\/p>\n The 250*n format has been successfully used by other conferences (e.g.\u00a0ICDE 2015<\/a>,\u00a0VLDB 2015<\/a>)\u00a0and\u00a0aligns well\u00a0with our\u00a0goal<\/a>\u00a0 to democratize knowledge acquisition and diffusion and we want to stay with this format.<\/p>\n 2. We are set up as a Giving Account at Fidelity Charitable. We can therefore recommend grants only to a 501c(3) organization or a body affiliated with a 501c(3) organization. We need the following\u00a0information for your conference (or the the 501c(3) organization with which the conference is affiliated): i) Name and address of the organization, ii) Its Tax ID number, iii)\u00a0 Name of the contact person, and iv) Phone number of the contact person. Using this information, we initiate the grant recommendation with Fidelity Charitable, which then directly sends the check.<\/p>\n 3.\u00a0We appreciate that the conference\u00a0website include information that describes the Fellowship and eventually lists the names and affiliations of the recipients.\u00a0 We also appreciate to be included and linked along with other sponsors of your conference. Here are our links for this purpose: i)\u00a0Foundation’s website<\/a>,\u00a0and ii)\u00a0image of the Foundation’s logo<\/a>. Please use the full name of the foundation: Professor Ram Kumar Memorial Foundation.<\/p>\n We are not a corporation or an academic institution.\u00a0See the ICDE 2015 travel awards page<\/a> and\u00a0main page<\/a>\u00a0as examples of how you might list us.<\/p>\n Next step:<\/p>\n Please send the following information to fellowships@ramkumarfoudation.org:<\/p>\n A) The number of Fellowships you intend to give out and the amount of each fellowship. Thank you for providing us the possibility to contribute to your conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Academic conferences play a vital role in catalyzing scientific breakthroughs and technological innovations by providing forum for researchers and practitioners to meet and discuss new advances and get to know each other that helps with forming and nurturing collaborations.\u00a0However, attending a conference is expensive. We aim to provide few (unfortunately!) fellowships to students and scholars […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-protocols"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrawal-family.com\/ramkumarfoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrawal-family.com\/ramkumarfoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrawal-family.com\/ramkumarfoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrawal-family.com\/ramkumarfoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrawal-family.com\/ramkumarfoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/agrawal-family.com\/ramkumarfoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"https:\/\/agrawal-family.com\/ramkumarfoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrawal-family.com\/ramkumarfoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrawal-family.com\/ramkumarfoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrawal-family.com\/ramkumarfoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nB) Information listed in the item 2) above.
\nC) How the conference website will list us.<\/p>\n