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Feedback report after the conference  (sent 04/05/11)

Completed grant application form (sent 14/10/10)
Application form requested by student skills for procedure only - they have already agreed to give us £500.

Report required after conference. See application form for details.

Conference Description Text

Young Researchers in Mathematics (YRM) 2011 is a 3-day conference run by and aimed at doctoral and post-doctoral researchers within the broad area of Mathematics from across the UK and internationally. The conference aims to facilitate networking and collaboration between early career research mathematicians from different institutions, forming working relationships which will persist into the future. In bringing the conference to the University of Warwick, the current committee aims to establish this unique event within the mathematics research community.

The conference will have a total of around 200 delegates.

Eight students form the organising committee and approximately ten more will be involved in the day to day running of the conference when the delegates are here; this includes chairmanship of scientific tracks. Around 100 students will give conference presentations. Another set of students will be recruited to run the conference next year and those currently involved will be a point of reference, information and advice for the year afterwards.

The impact of the activities will be measured through feedback forms (either distributed to every participant during the conference or via an online form emailed to all participants after the conference). A current and on-going opportunity to leave comments or suggestions and raise queries is available through the conference email address.

Skills Text

1) For your organisational team:

To organise a large-scale event,
to negotiate for funding and to negotiate for services,
to take a customer service perspective,
to plan, follow through and execute a project,
to communicate effectively with the rest of the organisers, funding partners, delegates, service providers,
and departmental and other stakeholders,
to motivate self and others,
to use time effectively,
to overcome disagreements and problems,
to work as a team to overcome external setbacks,
to publicise effectively, from the graphic design through to personal networking,
to be flexible and persistent in working towards the goal over the period of an entire calendar year,
leadership within their assigned roles and joint leadership of the other volunteers,
event management,
public communication to the delegates at the conference.

2) For the other student presenters:

To be self-aware and identify own training needs,
taking the initiative to fill skill gaps,
public communication of science,
networking and team working,
willingness to acquire knowledge,
construct coherent arguments and constructively defend research outcomes,
organisation skills,
to listen, give feedback and respond perceptively to others.

3) For the delegates:

Taking the initiative to fill skill gaps,
motivation,
networking and team working,
a willingness to acquire knowledge,
organisation skills,
to listen, give feedback and respond perceptively to others.

Email correspondance:

17/06/2010 Emailed Steve Martin this morning who replied Sandra Sparks ‘ Sandy (CC’d) is the Robert’s Funding guru at Warwick and I am sure she will be more than happy to help with your proposal. You must keep me informed on what your concocting :-)’ MJB emailed 17/06/2010

18/06/2010 email to Martine. Replied thanking, cc all. “We can provide £500 for your conference, as long as it is student led and organised (obviously with advice and guidance from staff).” This is good news, but they had £3000 Roberts funding last year. I will speak to Steve on Monday to find out whether we can tap into the ‘departmental’ pot as well, and to Cambridge on 26th July to see how they did it. MJB

18/06/2010 email to Martine. “As it is next academic year, I would prefer to transfer the money to you in October. Will this be a problem?” Replied okay as far as I know, if a problem will come back to you.

13/10/10 MJB RSSP, who administer the Roberts fund have asked for a form to be completed; funding of £500 still secure.