Publicity Emails
The email to potential speakers for the careers event 'Where has maths taken you?' has been moved to here.
The communications with B(A)MC has been moved to here.
reminder Email to postgraduate secretaries at UK universities.
Sent by DH on ????
Dear Postgraduate Secretary,
Thank you for your help in advertising `Young Researchers in Mathematics 2011', would you be prepared to forward a reminder to the students in your department?
`Young Researchers in Mathematics' is a conference run by and for Maths PhD students. After its great success in Cambridge in the past two years, the conference is being held at Warwick University from 14-16th April, 2011.
The conference includes talks by prestigious mathematicians, but the main content will be talks given by the postgraduate students attending; in particular, it is a great opportunity for students to give a talk about their research in front of an enthusiastic audience.
More details can be found on our website at http://www.go.warwick.ac.uk/ 
If you could remind the postgraduate students in your department about this event, we would be very grateful. I have attached a new poster advertising the event; alternatively, we could send physical copies if you reply with an address. We look forward to seeing many of your students next Easter.
Many thanks for your assistance,
David Holmes
(on behalf of the organising committee, YRM 2011)
Email to postgraduate secretaries at UK universities.
Sent by DH on 22/10/10
Dear Postgraduate Secretary,
I am contacting you to ask for your help in advertising `Young Researchers in Mathematics 2011', a conference run by and for Maths PhD students. After its great success in Cambridge in the past two years, the conference is being held at Warwick University from 14-16th April, 2011.
The conference includes talks by prestigious mathematicians, but the main content will be talks given by the postgraduate students attending; in particular, it is a great opportunity for students to give a talk about their research in front of an enthusiastic audience.
More details can be found on our website at http://www.go.warwick.ac.uk/
If you could inform the postgraduate students in your department about this event, we would be very grateful. I have attached a poster advertising the event; alternatively, we could send physical copies if you reply with an address. We look forward to seeing many of your students next Easter.
Many thanks for your assistance,
David Holmes
(on behalf of the organising committee, YRM 2011)
Email to warwick postgrads.
Sent by DH on 22/10/10
Hi everyone,
As you may have heard, Young Researchers in Mathematics 2011 is coming to Warwick next Easter (14-16th April 2011).
This is an amazing conference run by and for PhD students, with talks by many great speakers, including you!
For more information and to register, visit http://www.go.warwick.ac.uk/ .
If you are unsure whether to attend, you should! If you are still unconvinced, just look at the wonderful poster attached!
David Holmes
(on behalf of the organising committee, YRM 2011)
Email to those who responded to enquiries about small postgrad communities (SENT 21/10/10)
Jeremy Levesey, chair of the heads of departments of Math (HoDoMs)sent an email on our behalf to all the HoDs asking if their postgraduate maths community was small, and asking them to contact us if the conference could do anything to ameliorate the disadvantages for the students of belonging to a small community.
Sent by MJB on 21/10/10
Dear ______,
I am pleased to announce that registration for Young Researchers in Mathematics 2011 is now open, and we invite your students to register and to offer talks. There is unlikely to be accommodation for everyone who wishes it, so early registration is advised.
`Young Researchers in Mathematics 2011' is a conference run by and for Maths PhD students. After its great success in Cambridge in the past two years, the conference is being held at Warwick University from 14-16th April, 2011.
The conference includes talks by prestigious mathematicians, but the main content would be talks given by the postgraduate students attending; in particular, it is a great opportunity for students to give a talk about their research in front of an enthusiastic audience.
More details can be found on our website at go.warwick.ac.uk/yrm2011/
If you could inform the postgraduate students in your department about this event, we would be very grateful. I have attached a poster advertising the event; alternatively, we could send physical copies if you reply with an address. We look forward to seeing many of your students next Easter.
Many thanks for your assistance,
Martine Barons
(on behalf of the organising committee, YRM 2011)
Sent to:
jl1@leicester.ac.uk Levesley, Jeremy (Prof.)
'csx167@coventry.ac.uk'; Professor Keith Burnham, Coventry
'csx259@coventry.ac.uk' Dr. Olivier Haas, Coventry
'sd510@york.ac.uk' Stephen Donkin HoD Maths, York.
Margaret.Sloper@maths.ox.ac.uk Margaret Sloper Graduate Studies Assistant
a.p.martin@sussex.ac.uk Adrain Martin research student rep from Sussex
a.wickstead@qub.ac.uk Prof. A.W. Wickstead, Pure Mathematics Research Centre, Queen's University Belfast
T.C.Dunning@kent.ac.uk Clare Dunning, Director of Graduate Studies, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science University of Kent
Alison.Hooper@uwe.ac.uk Dr Alison P Hooper, Head of the Dept of Mathematics and Statistics, Bristol Institute of Technology, University of the West of England, Bristol.
Sent by MJB on 25/05/2011:
Dear---------,
I hope you felt that we, the Young Researchers in Mathematics 2011 committee, did everything we could to keep you in touch with the progress of the conference, and to respond to your suggestions about accessibility for those who work in small postgraduate departments.
I am pleased to announce that the conference will be held at Bristol University in 2012. See their link on our page for details: www.go.warwick.ac.uk/yrm2011.
Organising and running the conference has been an invaluable experience for those of us PhD students who were on the committee, and you may wish to consider whether this is an opportunity you would like your PhD students to benefit from in future years.
I reproduce below a debrief document for your interest:
As you may be aware from personal involvement, YRM 2011 was 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/debrief2011
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.
It is expected that the impact of YRM2011 will include enhancement of delegates’ PhD research through interaction with others working in similar fields, interaction with keynote speakers and the formation of collaborations. The opportunity to attend research talks across the broad range of pure and applied mathematics enables early career mathematicians to see their own work in context, and to produce new links with the theories and techniques of other areas.
The provision of workshops to enhance teaching in HE plus the careers event provided an element of CPD and career planning for delegates.
The conference organisation over these many months has proved to be of suitable calibre; the problems that arose during the conference were very minor, most had been anticipated and plans made to mitigate them worked very well. The experience of running a sizeable conference has now been extended to a further 8 early career mathematicians at Warwick, who are equipped with new skills to contribute to the mathematics community for the future. A further 13 benefited from the training we provided, and the experience of chairing the various subject-specific tracks, including undertaking the research necessary to provide a suitable biographic introduction of their keynote speaker. These valuable learning experiences will be enjoyed by successive committees, each committing to assist the subsequent committee. Various sponsors required event feedback, and the necessary reports have been sent.
Based on the feedback received, we are confident that the reputation of the University of Warwick has been enhanced by the hosting of YRM2011 here. The many positive comments on the subject of research progress are matched by appreciation of the quality of the organisation, facilities, accommodation and catering. All delegates seem to have found YRM2011 an enjoyable experience on all levels.
Best wishes,