Dear colleagues, dear students,

This is our general announcement of the eighth YOUNG MATHEMATICIANS CONFERENCE at The Ohio State University, August 19th - 21st , 2011（Fri-Sun）. Information about this year''s conference can be found at http://www.ymc.osu.edu/2011

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 180 students applying for 135 projects but could select only about 70 students to present 56 projects）. Partial support is also available to accompanying mentors.

APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN

In order to apply link to http://www.ymc.osu.edu/2011/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 Monday July 25th 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 come to YMC 2011 and deliver the plenary lectures：

Robert Ghrist（University of Pennsylvania）
Dan Margalit（Georgia Tech University）
Monica Visan（UCLA）

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 Northwestern, Oregon State, Nebraska, 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 also plan to conduct again our Outstanding Presentation Competition this year, and, as usual, will provide as many opportunities as possible for interaction between junior and senior conference participants：http://www.ymc.osu.edu/2011/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.