NSF support for Djerba conference
The NSF has provided a modest grant to support travel to the
international conference in topology to be held in Djerba, Tunisia,
October 20-23. The web page for the conference (DCAT 2007) is
here.
According to NSF policy, prospective US attendees have the first call
on the funding, but a certain number of non-US participants can also
be supported. We expect that the grant will be able to offer at best
partial coverage for travel and living expenses. If you would like to
request funding from this grant, please get in touch with Bill Dwyer
dwyer.1@nd.edu There are two things to keep
especially in mind.
- It is very important to pay attention
to NSF travel regulations, as documented in paragraph 761 of
this NSF
document.
- As described below, Notre Dame enforces some unusually stringent documentation
requirements for reimbursement requests.
You must provide
original receipts for everything being reimbursed, including airfare, bus fare, gas, tolls, rental car, hotel, food, etc.
For airfare you will need TWO out of the three following
items:
- On-line/e-mail printout
- Copy of the credit card statement, if you paid by credit card
- Passenger itinerary/receipt with fare information. This is
usually available upon request when you check in at the airport.
Boarding passes are not treated as acceptable reimbursement documentation because they don't
contain payment information.
It is very unlikely that we will be reimbursing anyone for car
rentals, but if this comes up you will need to provide the final
rental statement, which presumably contains detailed information
about the fact that the bill was paid in full and about exactly
how it was paid.
BEWARE:
Anything purchased on-line will need a credit card statement as a
payment backup. If you submit a credit card statement, please
blacken out the card number (often you have to do this in more
than one place on the statement). The information that should be
visible on the statement consists of your name, the name of the credit card
company, a description of the charge being reimbursed, and the amount of the charge.
Note:
Even if we follow the rules exactly, the reimbursement
process doesn't always go smoothly. We'll do our best.
Bill Dwyer
Last modified: Thu Sep 20 14:10:20 EDT 2007