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KTH Visit from an International Expert

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RELAX can provide funds to cover travel and accommodation costs, up to a maximum of 50,000 SEK, for invited acknowledged experts (users or facility scientists) at large-scale experimental facilities. The invited expert should be affiliated with an international institution and can stay at KTH for two weeks or more to give lectures in a course, assist with data analysis, and so on.

You can invite an acknowledged expert within large-scale experimental facilities (user or facility scientist) to KTH to stay for 2 weeks or more. This could be to, for instance, give lectures in a course (or in general to build competence), help with data anlysis, etc. In such cases RELAX can help with funds to cover the cost for the travelling and accommodation (but not salary!) up to max 50'000 SEK, but we reserve the right to reduce the funding as found appropriate.

The invited speaker should be affiliated with an international institution. The stay should include minimum 10 working days and has to take place minimum 3 weeks after the application is submitted (to give time to make PR). The requirement is that the invited expert should give minimum one RELAX seminar talk (45 minutes) during the stay. The expert should also be made available (within reason) to other KTH groups than the inviting one for discussions, lectures etc.

Application

To apply, send an e-mail to RELAX responsible Martin Månsson with the subject line "RELAX Funding": condmat@kth.se containing the following information:

  1. Specify that this is an application for funding ”Invited International Expert”
  2. Write an explanation to who you plan to invite and a brief explanation of why such person would be valuable to invite to KTH for 2 weeks or longer
  3. Make a short point-by-point list what the goals and expected outcomes will be from this visit
  4. Attach a short CV of the invited speaker
  5. Specify when the expert will arrive at and depart from, KTH
  6. Specify when (Date/Time) and where (KTH Room) the mandatory seminar will take place
  7. Attach a title and short abstract for the seminar (will be published on the RELAX homepage)
  8. Write how much funding you request and motivate it with a short but descriptive budget

After the visit you are requested to make a short report summarizing the success of the visit describing also how the expert user was crucial for such outcome, ideally with some nice photos from visit. In addition, after the mandatory seminar, a short news-flash about the seminar (one paragraph + appropriate photo) should also be submitted to RELAX. The report and news-flash will be published on the RELAX homepage. Only after both such items are received, the funding will be transferred to the responsible inviting person.