Travel Awards & Lectureships

APS Awards and Lectureships

The following lectureships and award program are intended to encourage collaborations with physicists in developing countries 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.  

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.

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.

India-U.S. Travel Program
APS and the Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF)  established a program to sponsor the exchange of physicists and physics graduate students between India and the United States.  Read more in APS News.