POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH CONFERENCE GRANTS (SCHEME 8)
FINANCIAL AND ACADEMIC REPORT FORM 
This form must be completed and returned by 16 July 2011 to:
Mrs Sylvia Daly, Grants Administrator, London Mathematical Society, De Morgan House, 57-58 Russell Square, London WC1B 4HS.
Reference number:	81002	
Grant holder’s name:	Professor S. Siksek	
Title of conference:	Young Researchers in Mathematics 2011	
Conditions:	The grant shall be used for the purposes stated in the application.    	
Financial Report:
Please describe the overall budget, giving enough detail to show that the amounts spent from the LMS grant correspond to the amounts requested and comply with the conditions listed above.  If any part of the grant is unspent please explain which part could not be used and give the reasons.  Please see Note 3 of the Grant Offer and Claim Form.	
Item	Amount £	
Speaker Expenditure (Total = £1378.16)
General Travel & Subs – UK
Travel Exps: Public Trnspt/Taxi/Car Hire
Travel Exps: Mileage Claim
Conferences Catering
Hospitality Catering
Conferences Accommodation
Retail Supplies
Retail - Printing & Stationery

Student Expenditure (Total = £809.60)
Conferences Catering
Hospitality Catering
Conferences Accommodation
Retail Supplies
Retail - Printing & Stationery
Registration Fee
	
71.95
238.80
92.50
140.00
219.30
495.00
10.36
110.25

392.50
303.50
275.00
5.10
73.50
-240.00
	
Total	2187.76	
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Amount awarded:	£4000.00	
Grant claimed from the LMS*1 (A):	4000.00	
Total spent from LMS Grant (B):	2187.76	
Refund due to the LMS (A-B):	1812.24	
A cheque*2  for the refund is:	enclosed  	to follow 

The refund will be paid by bank transfer x*3	
*1 If you have not yet claimed the grant please send your completed Grant Offer and Claim Form with this report.
*2 Please make cheques payable to the London Mathematical Society.  The grant reference number MUST be included with the remittance advice if the payment is being sent separately.
*3 Remittance advice should be provided by post or email (grants@lms.ac.uk) and MUST include the grant reference number.	

Academic Report:
Your report should: (i) contain a general description of the academic activities including the contributions made by the invited lecturers and postgraduate participants (talks and posters); (ii) refer to your original application and explain to what extent you fulfilled your original expectations; (iii) be concise.  If there was a website associated with the conference, please give the address. Please do not send abstracts with this report.
	
YRM 2011 has been a great success, with over 190 student delegates attending and 93 student talks covering areas ranging from Mathematical Biology to Number Theory. In addition, 14 of the UK's most eminent mathematicians attended to give keynote and plenary talks, and the conference is on track to move to Bristol University in 2012. 
A major aim of YRM is to facilitate networking and collaboration between young researchers. To attempt to measure our success in this area we asked our delegates to complete a feedback form. Around half said that they had had conversations which had helped their research, and nearly 40% said they had met other researchers with whom they might collaborate in future. Particular comments included `Discussing my work with others inspired me to prove an extension' and `we had a very interesting conversation about gene regulatory networks'; more examples can be found on our website (go.warwick.ac.uk/yrm2011).
Several keynote speakers commented on the very high standard of the student talks. The structure of the conference works well; students have commented that the length of the talks (40 minutes) is `perfect, long enough to get into the details of my work'. Dividing the conference into 13 tracks with up to 8 running in parallel allows talks to be focused and subject-specific, and results in `very fruitful feedback'. 
Although we only advertised YRM within the UK as we were unable to subsidise accommodation or travel for other students, approximately 30 students from other countries including the US and Australia attended. 
We have succeeded in attracting 5 new sponsors to the conference this year, enhancing the ability of YRM to be self-sustaining and institution-independent; delegates expressed enthusiasm for the 2012 event in Bristol.	
	
Please complete attendance figures as follows:	
	Male	Female	
Invited Lecturers 	11	3	
Research students	191 (no data collected on gender)	
Other participants	-	-	
Total	205	
Signature of Grant holder:	
Email address:	  s.siksek@warwick.ac.uk; d.s.t.holmes@warwick.ac.uk	
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