Any undergraduate, graduate student, or Post Doc who is at most 30 years old is eligible to receive an award.

Top priority will be given to

• applicants presenting papers at the meeting;
• applicants that make themselves available to assist the conference staff for approximately 20 hours during the conference dates (generally organized for a shift of 4 - 5 hours).  (*)

In addition to the completed application form an application for an award must include:

• A one-page resume that includes the applicant's research interests, projects, and papers published, and a URL for a working Web page (if available)
• A recommendation letter indicating why the applicant is deserving of receiving an award and any special circumstances.
• Title(s) of the paper(s) to be presented at SIMAI 2010

Applications should be sent in PDF format by e-mail to nicola.bellomo@polito.it under the subject 'SIMAI 2010 / Application for Financial Support'

Application due date: April 7, 2010. Notification of acceptance by e-mail by April 15, 2010.

(*) Typical volunteers' tasks may include: conference rooms monitoring; assistance to attendees', including check-in, distribution of conference material, program information, and technical support; general registration and technical asssistance needs.