Travel Grants & Lectureships

The following lectureships and travel grants are intended to encourage collaborations and to bring international speakers to the annual APS March and April meetings.

International Travel Grant Award Program

The International Travel Grant Award Program (ITGAP) was established to promote international scientific collaborations between APS members and physicists in developing countries. Grant recipients receive up to US$2,000 for travel and lodging expenses for international travel while visiting a collaborator for at least one month.
International Travel Grant Award Program

Brazil-U.S. Exchange Program

The APS and the Sociedade Braileira de Física (SBF) co-sponsor the exchange of physics graduate student and professors between the United States and Brazil.
Brazil-U.S. Exchange Program

India - U.S. Travel Program

India-U.S. Travel Program
"Memorandum Signing Launches International Program" (APS News article)
"Indo-U.S. Student Visitation Program: Graduate Students Building Collaborations" (APS News article)

Beller Lectureship

The Beller Lectureship was endowed by Esther Hoffman Beller for the purpose of bringing distinguished physicists from abroad as invited speakers at APS meetings.
Beller Lectureship

Marshak Lectureship

The Marshak Lectureship, endowed by the late Ruth Marshak in honor of her late husband and former APS president, Robert Marshak, is to provide travel support for physicists from "developing nations or the Eastern Bloc" invited to speak at APS meetings.
  Marshak Lectureship

FGSA Travel Grants

The APS Forum on Graduate Student Affairs (FGSA) provides funds to help graduate students and other young researchers travel to scholarly meetings.  Grants of up to $500 are available for travel within the U.S. and up to $800 for international travel.
FGSA Travel Grants