Royal Society of New Zealand Travel GrantsSeptember 2004The Royal Society of New Zealand has recently allocated funding to enable 15 students enrolled for their PhD degrees at New Zealand Universities to attend their first international science or technology conference overseas. Thirty-six applications were received. The successful applicants are: Ashmit Anand, Liggins Institute, The University of Auckland, 34th Annual Meeting for the Society of Neuroscience 23–27 October, 2004, San Diego, USA Rachael Augustine, Department of Anatomy & Structural Biology, University of Otago, 34th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience 23–27 October 2004, San Diego, California, USA Amy Bishop, AgResearch, Com Bio 2004, 26–30 September 2004, Perth, Australia Phillip Boyle, School of Mathematical and Computing Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 13–18 December 2004, Vancouver, Canada Carly Butler, School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, 9th International Pragmatics Conference, 10–15 July 2005, Riva del Garda, Italy Dougal Clunie, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Auckland, 1) 5th International Symposium on EcoHydraulics, 12–17 September 2004, Madrid, Spain, and 2) Third Informal Workshop on ‘Double-Averaging’ Methodology (DAM) in Environmental Hydraulics, 18–19 September 2004, Madrid, Spain Amy Glover, Department of Anatomy & Structural Biology, University of Otago, International Congress of Endocrinology, 31 August–4 September 2004, Lisbon, Portugal Rachel Perret, Malaghan Institute of Medical Research, Wellington, FEBS International Summer School on Immunology, 6–13 September 2004, Western Peloponese, Greece Daniel Pringle, School of Chemical & Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, American Geophysical Union, 2004 Fall Meeting, 13–17 December, 2004, San Francisco, USA John Ryan, School of Chemical & Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, XI MaNaPro, 4–9 September, 2004, Sorrento, Italy Zuzana Saidak, The Liggins Institute, The University of Auckland, Australian Neuroscience Society Conference, 31 January – 2 February 2005, Perth, Australia Nicola Schreurs, Institute of Veterinary, Animal and Biomedical Sciences, Massey University/AgResearch, XX International Grasslands Conference and Satellite Workshops, 26 June – 7 July, 2005, Dublin, Ireland Kavinesh Singh, Department of Engineering Science, The University of Auckland, The Tenth International Conference on Stochastic Programming 9–15 October 2004, Tucson, Arizona, USA Stephen Werner, Institute of Technology and Engineering, Massey University, 8th International Symposium on Agglomeration, 16-18 March, 2005, Bangkok Fiona Wright, Department of Psychology, University of Otago, 2005 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, 7–10 April 2005, Atlanta, Georgia, USA |