This award supports the Univeristy of North Carolina Greensboro Regional Mathematics and Statistics Conference which will be held at UNCG on November 3, 2012. The main goal of the UNCG Regional Mathematics and Statistics Conference is to provide a venue for students at all levels to share and experience research in the field of mathematics and statistics. This conference started as an annual undergraduate student conference in 2005 and has now expanded to include graduate researchers since 2009. The conference is completely focused on student research. We showcase this aspect of the conference by having only one plenary speech by an expert faculty and rest by students. The conference has established a tradition of attracting active student researchers and their faculty mentors from North Carolina and Virginia. The NSF support will allow us to attract participants from the entire Southeastern Atlantic region. The conference website is: www.uncg.edu/mat/rmsc/.
The opportunity for personal interaction among students and between students and faculty is a hallmark of our conference. These interactions enhance the research infrastructure and are essential for the success of student research and for training a new generation of mathematicians and statisticians. Moreover, due to the funding of NSF we have been able to support women and minorities, currently underrepresented in mathematical research. Students from these underrepresented groups accounted for about half of the supported participants.
The UNCG RMSC conference has been a regular annual event for undergraduate researchers since 2005 and it expanded to include graduate researchers in 2009. It provides a venue for promoting education and research in the field of mathematics and statistics specifically tailored for undergraduate and graduate students and their mentors. It allows students of all levels to present results of their research and to interact with and to learn from each other. The conference has now established a tradition of attracting active student researchers and faculty mentors from the North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Virginia. The opportunity for personal interaction among students and between students and faculty is a hallmark of our conference. These interactions enhance the research infrastructure and are essential for the success of (student) research and for training a new generation of mathematicians and statisticians. Moreover, women and minorities currently underrepresented in mathematical research are especially encouraged to participate in the conference and students from these underrepresented groups accounted for about half of the participants. The 8th Annual UNCG RMSC conference was held on Saturday, November 3, 2012 and was attended by 120 students (78 undergraduate and 42 graduate students) and 44 faculty from a total of 36 colleges and universities. The students delivered 57 oral presentations. The conference also featured plenary talks by Dr. Katia Koelle (Duke University), Dr. Sujit Ghosh (NC State University) and Dr. Michael Dorff (Brigham Young University). Selected papers will appear in the Topics from the 8th Annual UNCG Regional Mathematics and Statistics Conference to be published as part of its Springer Proceedings in Mathematics and Statistics series.
