2024 GROW Conference

The GROW conference will be held from Friday September 27 until Sunday September 29 at Columbia University. GROW is intended to provide support and encouragement to undergraduate students considering going to graduate school in the mathematical sciences and to help build a profession in which gender identity is not a barrier to participation. The conference has run annually since 2015 at different universities, and is open to all undergraduates from U.S. colleges and universities, including international students. Students of all genders, sexualities, ethnicities, races, nationalities and religions are encouraged to apply to GROW and these characteristics will not be used in determining funding or participation decisions.

This year GROW will feature five plenary lectures by:
Ingrid Daubechies (Duke, Math and Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Susan Murphy (Harvard, Statistics and Computer Science)
Evita Nestoridi (Stony Brook, Math)
Rosa Orellana (Dartmouth, Mathematics)
Christina Sormani (CUNY, Mathematics)

There will be four panel discussions on:
1. Current and recent graduate student perspectives.
2. What does it mean to do mathematical or statistical research in graduate school and beyond?
3. What can you do with a mathematics or statistics research career inside and outside of academia?
4. How to prepare for and apply for graduate school?

There will be networking and mentoring events and time to get feedback on applications.

And, there will be a festive banquet (Daubechies will deliver her talk there).

Due to space and funding constraints, participation (funded or unfunded) is by application only. Please consult the GROW website https://grow2024.math.columbia.edu/ for further information on applying, or go straight to the https://www.mathprograms.org/db/programs/1650 application to apply.

The organizers wish to acknowledge funding support from the Columbia University Department of Mathematics, Department of Statistics, Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Packard Foundation. the National Science Foundation, Two Sigma, and Jane Street.

Regards,
Ivan Corwin, Richard Davis, Giulia Saccà, Akash Sengupta, and Tian Zheng