ICA Early Career Award See ICA Early Career Award page for further information. ICA home page (International Commission for Acoustics) Young Scientist Conference Attendance Grants The board of the International Commission for Acoustics has approved a scheme for assisting young scientists in attending the triennial International Congress on Acoustics. This scheme also has the support of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) through its Committee on International Research and Education. The International Commission and the ASA have together allocated funds to support between fifteen and twenty-five grants having a value of between 500 and 1000 US Dollars in order to assist young researchers working in the discipline of acoustics in attending the forthcoming International Congress (the 18th ICA) to be held in Kyoto, Japan from 4th-9th April 2004. The grant should be used to help fund travel to and accommodation at the conference and may be used in conjunction with support from other sources. Note that successful candidates will still be required to pay the registration fee by 20 December 2003 in the same way as other speakers. Candidates must be relatively early in their professional career (typically a maximum of 15 years of active career), but can be either undergraduate or postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers or young academics. Priority will be given to applicants from developing countries. Candidates should submit to the 18th ICA Secretariat (see below) by fax or email a full four-page paper describing the work that they would like to present at the Congress. Candidates may submit a paper written jointly with others but the candidate must be first author. The deadline for submission for papers is October 31st 2003. Note that this is in advance of the date for the normal submission of papers that is scheduled for 20th December 2003. Also note that the manuscript submitted for the award should also be submitted for the conference proceedings through the website of ICA2004 by 20th December 2003. The submitted papers should also be accompanied by a letter of reference from an officer of the candidate's local acoustical society which itself should be a member society of the International Commission for Acoustics. (Details of member societies can be found on the homepage of the International Commission: http://www.icacommission.org). Alternatively, the letter of reference may be prepared by a full-time member of the academic staff of the host institution of the candidate. The papers submitted will be judged by a sub-committee of the International Commission and successful candidates will be sent an official letter from the Commission letting them know of the magnitude of the award made. It is also the intention that successful candidates should use this evidence of support from the Commission in order to assist in attracting support from other sources. Notification of awards made will be mailed on 1st December 2003. Successful candidates should register for the conference with the payment of registration fee on December 20th 2003. 18th ICA Secretariat Department of Environmental Psychology Graduate School of Human Sciences Osaka University 1-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871 Japan. Fax: +81 6 6879 8025 E-mail: secretariat@ica2004.or.jp URL: E-mail: http://www.ica2004.or.jp/