[grad-students] Canadian Undergraduate Mathematics Conference 2012 - registration now open

[CMS Student Committee]

***Please distribute widely to undergraduate and graduate students***
***We sincerely apologize for cross-postings***

To all those who share a passion for math! Registration is now open for 
the 2012 Canadian Undergraduate Mathematics Conference (CUMC), which is 
being held at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus from 
July 11th to 15th.

If you have not heard of the CUMC before, now is your opportunity to get 
on board with Canada’s premier undergraduate mathematics conference. If 
you have heard of the CUMC, now is the time to get excited to attend the 
conference!

The CUMC provides a great experience for undergraduate students, as it 
gives you a chance to attend a national conference where you can gain 
confidence in presenting, and it gives you the opportunity to network 
and share ideas with others who share your passion. The conference 
strives to bring together the diversity that underlies mathematics, and 
includes participants from fields as widespread as pure math, applied 
math, physics, economics, statistics, computer science, mathematical 
finance, and beyond. Any student in a mathematics related field is 
invited and encouraged to attend and give a talk.

We hope that you will talk to other students and your professors about 
this conference and the exciting opportunities it offers for 
undergraduate students of all levels. We would love to see you and a 
group of your friends, and maybe even a favorite professor, attend the 
conference this year. Remember, you are invited to give a talk, but are 
also welcome to simply attend and learn from others. If you are not 
involved in research, you’re invited to talk about whatever you are 
passionate about in regards to mathematics. You may choose to talk about 
a particular aspect of mathematics that you find interesting, a proof 
you enjoy working through, a historical aspect of the evolution of 
mathematics, or any other mathematics topic you wish to share. You will 
encounter many new topics from these presentations, and will have the 
opportunity to both give and receive feedback from your peers. The CUMC 
is a non-competitive forum for building connections between students of 
all levels and backgrounds and aims for diversity in its presenters. In 
fact, the three core principles of the conference are bilingualism, 
non-competitiveness, and regional diversity.

The conference also features renowned keynote speakers from a variety of 
disciplines. These keynote speakers who are invited to the CUMC are 
either prominent research figures or rising stars in their fields, and 
most importantly are people who care about undergraduate students and 
their exposure to mathematics.

This is the largest conference of its kind in North America, and we hope 
that you will get involved and join others from across the country. 
Everyone attending will leave with new experiences, new understanding, 
new ideas, and a new passion for mathematics!

For further information on the conference, please visit our website at 
cumc.math.ca or contact us with any questions at cumc.2012 at ubc.ca.

Sincerely,

The CUMC 2012 Organizing Committee