Graduate Blog

We are organizing a graduate mathematics conference on June 4-5, 2013, at the University of Guelph.

This conference is run by graduate students for graduate students. If you could help us advertise this event by forwarding this e-mail to your graduate students, it would be greatly appreciated. This conference is a great opportunity for students to obtain presentation practice, meet students in different research areas and to learn about the exciting math being conducted in Southern Ontario. The University of Guelph is a one hour drive from University of Toronto and accessible via public transit. We will be accepting abstract submissions up to Friday, May 3rd. Presentations can be on any mathematics/statistics topic and can incorporate either preliminary or final results. Some reimbursement (for parking, accommodation, breakfasts/snacks) will be available.

For more information, please visit our conference website www.uoguelph.ca/~mathgrad, or e-mail us at mathgrad@uoguelph.ca.

Sincerely,

Sarah Plosker

Binghamton University Graduate Conference in Algebra and Topology (BUGCAT) will be held on November 3rd.

Now in its fifth year, the BUGCAT is a venue where algebra and topology graduate students in all stages of their research can present their work, practice giving talks, and network with other mathematicians.  This year’s keynote speech will be given by Dr. Mladen Bestvina, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the University of Utah.

Registration will be available tomorrow, on our website:  http://www.math.binghamton.edu/grads/gradconf

Purpose

The SGS Conference Grant is intended to encourage eligible students to present their research at a regional, national or international conference or equivalent academic event.

Competition Timing (fall 2012 and winter 2013)

Applicants are encouraged to apply even if they have not received confirmation of their participation in a conference at the time of application.

The fall 2012 SGS Conference Grant: The application will be available on-line from Oct.1^st to Oct.12^th. This competition is intended to support conferences that are scheduled to take place between  September 1, 2012 – March 31, 2013.

The winter 2013 SGS Conference Grant: The competition will be announced in February and is intended to support conferences that are scheduled to take place between March 1, 2013 – September 30, 2013. 

Fall 2012 Deadlines:

·         October 1^st Application opens to students and Supervisors/Advisors

·         October 12^th Application closes to students

·         October 19^th Application closes to Supervisors

Value

The value of the SGS Conference Grant is based on the costs associated with: 1) the event’s registration fee (at the student-rate) 2) the location of the event. Transportation, accommodation and other related expenses are not taken into consideration. This grant is not intended to be the principal source of funding – applicants are expected to seek funding from other sources and must list other resources they are anticipating will supplement their conference travel and attendance. Preference will be given to applicants who are in the early stage of their academic program, have not previously attended a conference during their current program and/or who have not previously received an SGS Conference Grant. 

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants must be:

• Doctoral-stream (i.e. M.A., M.A.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D. (including flexible-time option Ph.D.)) or in a professional master’s program leading to a doctoral degree or in a professional doctoral program (S.J.D., D.M.A., Ed.D.)
• Registered full-time at the time of application
• Registered full time at the time of conference attendance and collection of payment
• An active participant (e.g. speaker, poster presenter, member of a panel or round table) in a conference or other academic meeting relevant to their academic program
• In good standing as defined by their graduate unit

Application

The SGS Conference Grant application is only available online and is accessible from the SGS Website. Both the applicant and the Supervisor/Advisor will be required to enter their UTORid and password in order to access the application.

Applicants will be asked for the following information:

·         Supervisor/Advisor contact information

·         Details of the conference or academic event (title, location, registration fee at the student-rate, URL)

·         Details regarding the presentation of research (title, etc.)

·         Previous conferences in which they have presented their research during their current program

·         Potential other sources of funding that may be available to support their conference attendance

Notification

Successful and unsuccessful applicants will receive notification at their U of T email-address in early-November 2012 regarding the result of their application.

Payment to Successful Applicants

Successful applicants are required to submit the following documentation to initiate payment of the grant:

·         Proof of conference registration payment (e.g. receipt)

·         Proof of conference attendance and active involvement (e.g. link to online programme listing applicant’s name)

·         Payment Activation Form

Questions

For questions regarding this competition, visit the SGS Website or email us at conferencegrant@sgs.utoronto.ca.

Best Regards,

Tara Lock
Awards Officer, Internal
Graduate Awards Office
School of Graduate Studies
University of Toronto
Room 202 – 63 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario  M5S 2Z9
Tel:  (416) 978-2386

On behalf of the organizing committee of the Ottawa Mathematics Conference
(OMC), I’d like to ask you to encourage your students to give a talk at
this year’s event. The OMC is a two-day conference designed specifically
for graduate students, postdocs, and talented undergraduates to showcase
their research in any field of mathematics. It is a great opportunity not
only to interact with fellow mathematicians, but also to gain experience
in giving talks and sharing one’s work.

The OMC will take place at the University of Ottawa from May 18-19, 2012.
Talks need only be 25 minutes in length, and slots are still available!
Much more information (including information about registration) can be
found on our website: www.omc2012.com.

If you have a student who has research to share, please encourage him or
her to register! And if you have have any questions, please don’t hesitate
to send me an e-mail at ckari099@uOttawa.ca.

Sincerely,

Camelia Karimianpour

PhD student

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

University of Ottawa

585 King Edward
Ottawa, ON

K1N 6N5

Email: ckari099@uottawa.ca

***Please distribute widely to undergraduate and graduate students***
***We sincerely apologize for cross-postings***

To all those who share a passion for math! Registration is now open for the 2012 Canadian Undergraduate Mathematics Conference (CUMC), which is being held at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus from July 11th to 15th.

If you have not heard of the CUMC before, now is your opportunity to get on board with Canada’s premier undergraduate mathematics conference. If you have heard of the CUMC, now is the time to get excited to attend the conference!

The CUMC provides a great experience for undergraduate students, as it gives you a chance to attend a national conference where you can gain confidence in presenting, and it gives you the opportunity to network and share ideas with others who share your passion. The conference strives to bring together the diversity that underlies mathematics, and includes participants from fields as widespread as pure math, applied math, physics, economics, statistics, computer science, mathematical finance, and beyond. Any student in a mathematics related field is invited and encouraged to attend and give a talk.

We hope that you will talk to other students and your professors about this conference and the exciting opportunities it offers for undergraduate students of all levels. We would love to see you and a group of your friends, and maybe even a favorite professor, attend the conference this year. Remember, you are invited to give a talk, but are also welcome to simply attend and learn from others. If you are not involved in research, you’re invited to talk about whatever you are passionate about in regards to mathematics. You may choose to talk about a particular aspect of mathematics that you find interesting, a proof you enjoy working through, a historical aspect of the evolution of mathematics, or any other mathematics topic you wish to share. You will encounter many new topics from these presentations, and will have the opportunity to both give and receive feedback from your peers. The CUMC is a non-competitive forum for building connections between students of all levels and backgrounds and aims for diversity in its presenters. In fact, the three core principles of the conference are bilingualism, non-competitiveness, and regional diversity.

The conference also features renowned keynote speakers from a variety of disciplines. These keynote speakers who are invited to the CUMC are either prominent research figures or rising stars in their fields, and most importantly are people who care about undergraduate students and their exposure to mathematics.

This is the largest conference of its kind in North America, and we hope that you will get involved and join others from across the country. Everyone attending will leave with new experiences, new understanding, new ideas, and a new passion for mathematics!

For further information on the conference, please visit our website at cumc.math.ca or contact us with any questions at cumc.2012@ubc.ca.

Sincerely,

The CUMC 2012 Organizing Committee

On behalf of the Mathematics Graduate Student Association (MGSA) of the
University of Ottawa, I am extremely happy to invite students and
postdoctoral researchers of your university to the annual Ottawa Mathematics
Conference (OMC).

The OMC is a conference organized by the graduate students of the
University of Ottawa and Carleton for the graduate students,
undergraduate students, and postdoctoral researchers from Ontario,
Quebec, the Maritime Provinces and the Northeast United States.

For more information, please visit  http://www.omc2012.com

Yours Sincerely,

Camelia Karimianpour
PhD student
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Ottawa
585 King Edward
Ottawa, ON
K1N 6N5
Email: ckari099@uottawa.ca

Purpose

The SGS Conference Grant is intended to encourage doctoral-stream students to present their research at a regional, national or international conference or equivalent academic event.

Competition timing

The winter SGS Conference Grant Application will be available on-line from March 26^th to April 6^th. The winter competition is intended to support conferences that will take place between March 1, 2012 – September 30, 2012. The fall 2012 competition will be announced near the end of summer and is intended to assist with conferences taking place between September 2012  - March 2013. 

Deadlines:

• Application opens to students: March 26th
• Application closes to students: April 6th
• Application closes to supervisors: April 13th

Value

The value will be based on the event’s registration-fee (at the student-rate) as well as a pre-determined amount based on the location of the event. Preference will be given to applicants who are in the early stage of their academic program, have not previously attended a conference during their current program and/or who have not previously received an SGS Conference Grant.  The SGS Conference Grant is not intended to be the principal source of funding.  Applicants are expected to seek funding from other sources, and must list other resources that will or may be used to support their conference attendance.

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants must be:

• Doctoral-stream (M.A, MA.Sc., M.Sc., PhD (including flexible-time option PhD), or in a professional masters program leading to a doctoral degree, and professional Doctoral programs (SJD, DMA, Ed.D. )
• Registered full-time at the time of application
• Registered full time at the time of conference attendance
• An active participant (e.g. speaker,  poster presenter, member of a panel or round table) in a conference (or other academic meeting) relevant to their academic program
• In good standing as defined by their graduate unit

Applicants need not have received confirmation of their participation in the conference at the time of application

Application

The SGS Conference Grant application is only available online and is accessible from the SGS Website. Both the applicant and the Supervisor/Advisor will be required to enter their UTORid and password in order to access the application.

Applicants will be asked for the following information:

• Supervisor/Advisor contact information
• Details of the conference or academic event (title, location, registration fee at the student-rate, URL)
• Details regarding the presentation of research (title, etc)
• Previous conferences in which they have presented their research during their current program
• Potential other sources of funding that may be available to support this conference attendance

Notification

Successful and unsuccessful applicants will receive notification by email in May 2012 regarding the result of their application.

Payment to Successful Applicants:

Successful applicants are required to submit the following documentation to initiate  payment of the grant.

• Proof of conference registration payment
• Proof of conference attendance and active involvement

Questions

For all questions regarding this competition, visit the SGS Website or email us at conferencegrant@sgs.utoronto.ca.

Best Regards,

Tara Lock

Awards Officer, Internal

Graduate Awards Office

School of Graduate Studies

University of Toronto

Room 202 – 63 St. George Street

Toronto, Ontario  M5S 2Z9

Tel:  (416) 978-2386

Hello all,
We are happy to announce a
Winter School on Galois Theory
to be held in Luxembourg in February 2012.

The goal of the winter school is to present state-of-the-art methods in
Galois theory to graduate students and postdocs. We will focus on Galois
representations, in particular on Serre's modularity conjecture, and on
several of the patching techniques and their various applications. Prior
to the school, there will be three preparatory days on background material.

Preparatory days, 15 - 17 February 2012

* Profinite Groups - Luis Ribes
* Field Theory - Wulf-Dieter Geyer
* Modular Forms - Johan Bosman

Winter School, 20 - 24 February 2012

* Galois Representations - Gebhard Böckle
* Serre's Modularity Conjecture - Michael Schein
* Patching in Galois Theory - Moshe Jarden
* Patching in Algebra - David Harbater

For more information and registration, please see the webpage:
http://galois.pratum.net

Best regards,

Sara Arias-de-Reyna
Lior Bary-Soroker
Gabor Wiese

**Our grad student Jerrod Smith is a member of the CMS Student
Committee and he is organizing the student poster session at the
2011 Winter CMS meeting to be held in Toronto.**

Hi everyone,

CMS Student Committee is inviting you to present a poster
at the CMS Student Poster Session. The poster session will take
place on December 10-11, 2011 at the site of the CMS Winter
meeting in Toronto.

This is great opportunity to present your research in a more relaxed
atmosphere without the pressure of giving a talk. The poster can be on
your current or previous research, it could simply be a survey of the
topic you are planning to start your research in or even just a fun
and interesting topic of mathematics. There will be judging and the
top three posters will be awarded cash prizes as well as two
complimentary banquet tickets each.

To register for the poster session and for more information, please go
to http://math.ca/Events/winter11/students. The deadline for the
registration is October 31st.

All the best,
Student Committee.

---
The latest version of the CMS StudC newsletter
(Notes From the Margin) is available at
http://math.ca/Students/Newsletter/

Purpose

The SGS Conference Grant is intended to encourage doctoral-stream students to actively present their research at a regional, national or international conference or equivalent academic event.

Competition timing

The SGS Conference Grant competition will run twice a year. The Fall 2011 competition is intended to support conferences that will take place between November 1, 2011 and April 30, 2012. A winter competition will be announced early in the new year for conferences taking place after April 30, 2012.

Value

The value will be based on the event’s registration-fee (at the student-rate) as well as a pre-determined amount based on the location of the event. Preference will be given to applicants who are in the early stage of their academic program, have not previously attended a conference during their current program and/or who have not previously received an SGS Conference Grant.  The SGS Conference Grant is not intended to be the principal source of funding.  Applicants are expected to seek funding from other sources, and must list other resources that will or may be used to support their conference attendance.

Eligibility Criteria:

Applicants must be:

• Doctoral-stream (M.A, MA.Sc., M.Sc. and PhD (including flexible-time option PhD)
• Registered full-time at the time of application and at the time of conference attendance
• In good standing as defined by their graduate unit
• An active participant (e.g. speaker,  poster presenter, member of a panel or round table) in a conference (or other academic meeting) relevant to their academic program

• Applicants need not have received confirmation of their participation in the conference at the time of application

Application:

The SGS Conference Grant application is only available online and is accessible from the SGS Website. Both the applicant and the Supervisor/Advisor will be required to enter their UTORid and password in order to access the application.

Applicants will be asked for the following information:

• Supervisor/Advisor contact information
• Details of the conference or academic event (title, location, registration fee at the student-rate, URL)
• Details regarding the presentation of research (title, etc)
• Previous conferences in which they have presented their research during their current program
• Potential other sources of funding that may be available to support this conference attendance

The deadline for the student-portion of the Conference Grant application is 4pm on September 30^th.  Once the online application has been submitted by a student, the Supervisor/ Advisor will be contacted via email within 48 hours and be asked to confirm the appropriateness of the conference and the potential availability of other funding. The Supervisor/ Advisor will have until October 7^th, 2011 to complete their portion of the application. Students are encouraged to discuss conference attendance with their Supervisor/Advisor prior to the submission of the SGS Conference Grant application.

Notification:

• Successful and unsuccessful applicants will receive email-notification in mid November 2011 regarding the result of their application.

Payment:

• Successful applicants will be asked to submit all of the following documentation within 1 email to conferencegrant@sgs.utoronto.ca

SGS Conference Grant Payment Activation Form

Proof of conference registration

Proof of conference attendance and active involvement

• Payment will be distributed through ROSI once all required documentation has been provided via email.

Deadline:

All applications must be submitted electronically by students by 4pm on September 30^th 2011.

Supervisors/Advisors will have until October 7^th, 2011 to complete their section of the SGS Conference Grant.

For questions regarding this competition, view the FAQs on the SGS Website or email us at conferencegrant@sgs.utoronto.ca.

Tara Lock

Awards Officer, Internal

Graduate Awards Office

School of Graduate Studies

University of Toronto

Room 202 – 63 St. George Street

Toronto, Ontario  M5S 2Z9

Tel:  (416) 978-2386

Fax: (416) 971-2864