at The Ohio State University

July 27th - 29th, 2012（Fri-Sun）

Information about this year's conference can be found at
http://www.ymc.osu.edu/2012

ABOUT YMC 2012

YMC is an annual conference for undergraduate research in mathematics to which students involved in REUs and similar programs around the country are invited with full support in order to present their research in talks and with posters and interact with peer and senior participants. Invitations to YMC are competitive due to limited space and budget.（Last year we had 157 students applying for 134 projects but could select only 70 students to present 58 projects）. Partial support is also available to accompanying mentors.

APPLICATIONS

APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN

In order to apply link to http://www.ymc.osu.edu/2012/apply.php and carefully follow all instructions. Applicants are also strongly recommended to read the applicant resources in order to improve their submitted abstracts.   The deadline for applications is

Wednesday June 27th 4:00pm EDT

The review of applications by a 20+ member panel of mathematics faculty will start immediately after this deadline. We expect to have decisions on the bulk of invitations by the end of the same week.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Besides the student presentations, we are delighted to have the following distinguished speakers scheduled for YMC 2012：

Maria Chudnovsky （Columbia University） 
Terence Tao    （University of California, Los Angeles） 
Karen Vogtmann    （Cornell University） 

As in previous years we will have our "Graduate School Orientation" event with invited representatives from several different US graduate programs in mathematics（this year's schools include Rutgers, Boston, Iowa, OSU with more to come）. At this popular venue questions ranging from choices of schools, nuts and bolts of applications, and what life is like as a grad student are discussed.

We will once again hold an Outstanding Presentation Competition, and, as usual, will provide many opportunities for interaction between junior and senior conference participants.

PLEASE ADVERTISE

We ask you to forward this announcement to your students as well as any colleagues of yours who are involved in undergraduate research. You can download a poster of this year's conference in PDF format at

http://www.ymc.osu.edu/2012/docs/ymc_poster.pdf

If you would like to have a printed poster sent to you or if you have any other questions please email us at ymc@math.osu.edu .

JUDGING

Judges Wanted

If you are interested in undergraduate research, hold a mathematics Ph.D.（preferably faculty position）, have four or so hours time and internet access in the days following the deadline, and would like to help with judging please email us at ymc@math.osu.edu

The conference is funded under NSF Grant DMS-0841054（2009-2011）and supported with additional funds by the Department of Mathematics at The Ohio State University.

Sincerely,

Thomas Kerler

YMC Organizer 2003-2012
Assoc Professor of Mathematics
Vice-Chair for Graduate Studies
Department of Mathematics
The Ohio State University

on behalf of the

YMC 2012 Organizing Committee

Rodica Costin （Ohio State Univ）
Craig Jackson （Ohio Wesleyan Univ）
Bart Snapp （Ohio State Univ）

YMC 2012 Advisory Board
Ruth Charney （Brandeis）
Robert Devaney （Boston Univ）
Dennis DeTurck （Univ Pennsylvania）
Carolyn Gordon （Dartmouth College）
Loek Helminck （North Carolina State）
Aparna Higgins （Univ of Dayton）
Bryna Kra （Northwestern Univ）
Donal O'Shea （Mount Holyoke）
Alayne Parson （Univ Denver）
Kim Whittlesey （UIUC）