Satellite Meetings
The enormous success of the YRM conferences has shown how valuable and important it is that graduate students from around the UK can meet with those from other universities to discuss their research and learn from one another.
Unfortunately, an event the scale of YRM can only take place once a year - but now there is a chance to continue to develop the relationships made there throughout the year, by setting up a YRM satellite meeting.
Thanks to the London Mathematical Society we are able to fund a number of meetings for a small group of graduate students. This is the first year such meetings have been run, so the emphasis at the moment is to get as many of these running at regular intervals as possible, without the red tape and bureaucracy that may seem daunting.
If you have any ideas for an event you want to run, please email Thomas Bloom at matfb@bristol.ac.uk to discuss whether there is money available. Below are some guidelines on what we expect the money to be used for, but there may be other great ideas we haven't come up with yet, so if there's something mathematical you'd like the money to run, email us and we can discuss it.
- 3-8 graduate students from at least two universities;
- one day of talks and discussions;
- funding available for travel expenses and food on the day;
- such meetings to happen at regular intervals (every couple of months).
We promise to make this process informal, painless and straightforward, so get in touch!
There are a number of similar meetings which already exist, largely funded by the LMS, some of which are aimed towards graduate students. If you would like to organise a satellite meeting the fact that there is already a meeting in the same subject area should not dissuade you, but we will let you know if there is one, in case you were not aware.