Submition date and time: 22 Dec 2011 06:12:52 Nome: Savan Kharel. E-mail: skharel@utk.edu Endereço Postal Address: Do you hold a PhD title? Yes Institution: University of Tennessee Research area: Scattering Amplitudes, String Compactification Comments: The topics covered in the school are broadly interesting and I am extremely interested in listening to specifically two lecturers(Vanhove and Berkovits)as the lectures will overlap my research interest and would be very useful to me. As you know, it is expensive to fly to Brazil, notwithstanding visa costs etc. Also, I dont live near a major airport making the expensive even higher than it usually is. As a "poor" graduate student, I am kindly requesting for travel/accomodation support in order to attend this very exciting school and I hope you find this reasonable. Thank you.