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AMSC Student Council
Meeting Minutes
February 3, 2006
2:00 - 2:50 PM
MTH 2400
- Call to Order: Meeting called to order at 2:03pm
- In Attendence: Chris Danforth, JT Halbert, Katrina LaCurts, Aaron Lott, Yabing Mai, Dave McClendon, Bob Shuttleworth, Suzanne Sindi
- Welcome and Introduction
- New Business: Graduation Conference Progress
- Participants
- This conference is open to everyone graduating: undergraduate, masters and PhD's
- Spotlight Talks Longer than 20 Minutes? - Several suggestions for 20 minutes, make a special session
- Undergraduates - Would there be interest? (Katrina LaCurts: There are some undergraduates that would be interested - Bill Goldman, Undergraduate Honors Students.)
- RIT Involvement - (JT; not too much of a response - he will continue to work with the RIT)
- Panel Discussion - (Suzanne) Not too much response, will focus more on the local people (Sarah Brown, Gustavo) Recent graduates from STAT program.
- Funding
- GSG Proposal: $500, Bob Shuttleworth
- SIAM ($400): Jeff Cooper has the SIAM funds
- Advertising
- Will have flyers and poster to be displayed (Aaron will take the lead on this)
- Emails: Chris Danforth will email the other graduate students.
- Scheduling
- April 21 - Need to move the date because of Religious Holidays.
- March 10 - (Friday) the deadline for people to let us know if they are interested in participating
- Website
- JT and Aaron Lott will be developing the conference
- Will have links on all the major department websites: Math, AMSC, Math Club, AWM
- Allocation of Responsibilities
- Chris Danforth: Draft an email - that will go out to all the graduate students.
- Bob Shuttleworth: Continue to work to secure funds.
- Katrina LaCurts: Send out an email to undergraduates in honors program, Bill Goldman. (Will send out an email in the next couple of weeks.)
- JT Halbert: Continue to work with the RIT Groups to get them involved; Attend the Math Club meeting in two weeks.
- Aaron Lott: Making a poster/flyers for the Conference
- Suzanne Sindi: Continue to recruit local people to participate in the panel discussion.
- Dave McClendon: Reserve the conference room (Math 3206) and computer and materials for the room.
- Joanna Pressley and Qing Xia: Finding out who is graduating.
- Yabing Mai: Contacting the professors in Statistics and work to involve statistics students.
- Miscellaneous
- Making the Conference more professional: Having a printed booklet with all the names, abstracts, information about where people will be in the future
- Options: We can either have CSCAM print the schedules as their donation or have the campus printing center.
- Will work to advertise a Workshop on Public Speaking (JT Halbert)
- Adjournment:
- Meeting adjourned at 2:55pm
- Next meeting the week of March 13, will be right after the submission deadlines.
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