Conference attendees gathered in front of the Carnegie Library.
The 48th Annual New York State Regional Graduate Mathematics Conference was held on the Syracuse University campus on Saturday, April 1, 2023. With support from a National Science Foundation grant, the SU Graduate Organization, the Department of Mathematics and the American Mathematical Society, this year’s edition of the conference was the largest since the pandemic, with participants attending from across the country.
The conference featured plenary lectures from Eloísa Grifo (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) and Vera Mikyoung-Hur (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), as well as over 35 talks in parallel sessions.
Elana Israel, a mathematics graduate student in the College of Arts and Sciences and president of the Mathematics Graduate Organization, helped to organize the event.
“I have absolutely loved getting to plan this conference the past two years," Israel says. "It's such a pleasure getting to give so many math grad students from across the country a chance to meet and share their research!”
Participants were similarly enthusiastic. “This was the best graduate conference I've ever attended! Huge thanks to Elana and all the organizers for the effort to put such a flawless day together," said one attendee. According to another, "It was a great experience! Everyone I talked to was so nice and I got to learn a lot of really interesting math."
"This conference had some of the friendliest people I've ever met! I was really happy to share the day with them," noted one participant.
The annual event is the longest running graduate mathematics conference in the country and is organized entirely by graduate students. It provides an opportunity for mathematics graduate students in any field to present their research, learn about a wide variety of mathematical topics, gain new insights across fields and explore possible cross-disciplinary collaborative efforts. Organizers are looking ahead to next year’s conference, and especially to the landmark 50th conference in 2025.