About the Fellowship
Who does this Fellowship assist?
The annual Walter and Lyn Bloom Travelling Fellowship assists an early career mathematician to spend research time overseas, to present papers at National and International Conferences, and to make and maintain international contacts.
Information
The Fellowship is funded annually by Walter and Lyn Bloom.
The selection committee will recommend the amount to be granted, to a maximum of $5,000 in each of the first five years (and subsequently indexed), to a successful applicant, taking account of the proposed research and travel activities, and the research track record of the applicant relative to opportunity.
At most one Walter and Lyn Bloom Travelling Fellowship will be awarded each year unless no-one of sufficient merit is found, in which case no Fellowship shall be awarded, and the funds not expended remain part of the Fellowship pool.
Eligibility criteria
The Walter and Lyn Bloom Travelling Fellowship is offered every year to a researcher who has obtained their PhD in any area of mathematics from an Australian university. To be eligible to apply, a candidate must have qualified for their PhD within five years of the closing date and cannot have previously been awarded either the Walter and Lyn Bloom Travelling Fellowship or the Alf van der Poorten Travelling Fellowship.
Applicants must have been members of the Society for at least the twelve-month period immediately prior to the date of application (back-dating of membership to the previous year is not sufficient) and must be Australian citizens and resident in Australia. The successful candidate will need to have a research project, in any area of mathematics, of at least a month’s duration in any overseas institution.
How to apply
Applications should include the completed application form detailing a travel and research plan and budget (at most one page), a budget justification, letters of support from all institutions being visited, a full CV and a letter from the awarding institution confirming when the applicant qualified for the award of their PhD.
The applicant should also arrange for two letters of support from experts in the field to be sent directly to the committee chair anne.thomas@sydney.edu.au. These letters should comment on the track record of the applicant and on the merits of the Fellowship application. One of these letters can be a letter of support from a host institution.
Applications should be sent to anne.thomas@sydney.edu.au by 3rd November in the year of the award.