[grad-students] Program Announcement from Fields Institute

[Emily Baillie]

Dear Colleagues,

Please find below an announcement for an upcoming research program at the
Fields Institute. We would be grateful if you would post this information in
a place where many students can access it. If you would like to receive a
poster about this program, please let me know and I can send you an
electronic or printed copy.

Many thanks,
Emily Baillie
Communications Officer
The Fields Institute
222 College Street
Toronto, ON M5T 3J1
416-348-9710 x3024 
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FIELDS-MITACS UNDERGRADUATE SUMMER RESEARCH PROGRAM

The Fields Institute announces a summer research programs for undergraduates
to be held during the summer of 2010 at the Fields Institute in downtown
Toronto. The program will provide support for up to thirty students to take
part in research programs supervised by leading researchers from the Fields
Institute sponsoring universities as well as visiting researchers at the
Institute. It is planned to be the first in a continuing series of such
summer undergradute programs.

Students accepted into the program will receive student residence housing on
the campus of the University of Toronto from July 3 to August 28, 2010;
financial support for travel to Toronto;  a per diem for meals and medical
coverage for non-Canadian students during their stay.
 
Students will be assigned to work on research projects in groups of three or
four. It is expected that several of the projects will be related to the
Fields summer thematic program on the spread of drug resistance in
infectious diseases that will be held at the Institute during July and
August, but other topics will also be the focus of student research groups.
In some cases, students may also have the opportunity  to spend a week off
site at the home campus of a project supervisor. 

Undergraduate students in mathematics related disciplines are encouraged to
apply by:

1)sending a covering letter with a brief personal statement
2)having an official transcript from their university sent directly to the
Fields Institute and 
3)arranging for a letter of reference to be sent to Fields. 

The deadline for applications is February 20, 2009. Send material to: 

Alison Conway, Manager of Scientific Programs
MITACS-Fields Summer Undergraduate Research Program
222 College Street
Toronto, Ontario 
Canada M5T 3J1

Note: Students requiring visas for travel to Canada will need to make their
own arrangements to obtain the necessary documents.
For more information see: 
www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/10-11/summer-research