The George Washington University hosted the first annual DC Math Grad Student Meeting (DCMGSM) on the weekend of April 25-26, 2009. The goal of the meeting was to provide an opportunity for DC area graduate students to meet, network, share experiences, and speak at a venue that is less formal than a standard research conference.

Thank you to all who attended and made the conference such a wonderful success! We want to make this meeting an annual event. Toward that end, help us to make next year's conference even better by filling out our online survey. Also, make sure you check out our collection of photos from the meeting!

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:Jane Gilman, Rutgers University & the National Science Foundation
Continued fractions and the geometry of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
We are extremely pleased and honored to announce Jane Gilman as our keynote speaker for the 2009 DC Math Graduate Student Meeting. For more information about Jane Gilman and her talk, please visit the schedule page.

PANEL DISCUSSION: WORKING IN MATHEMATICS.
We are also pleased to announce that the 2009 DC Math Graduate Student Meeting will include a panel discussion on working in mathematics. The panel will be comprised of short talks, as well as a question & answer session with mathematicians working in a variety of capacities. Panelists will include the following:

For more information see the schedule page.

Finally, we are also pleased to announce that we now have over 60 registered participants and a complete schedule. The schedule can be found here as an Adobe Acrobat file or on the schedule page. For a list of abstracts and bios go here and for a list of participants go here.

If you have additional questions, you can email the organizers at dcmgsm2009@gmail.com, and we are happy to answer.



e-mail: dcmgsm2009@gmail.com