The second annual Young Investigator's Symposium at the Department of Chemistry has the following objectives:

• To increase graduate student activity in the department
• To enhance the breadth of students' knowledge by exposing them to research of their peers
• To prepare students for participating in and organizing conferences
• To identify students worthy of an award and assign the awards and scholarships.
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Oral Presentations Format:

• Two 3-hour sessions
• 15-25 min talk and 5 min of questions per presentation (Depending on the number of participants)

Poster Presentations Format:

• 2 hour poster session
• Make posters accessible during the whole time of the symposium

Participation and Presentation Requirements:

A single succinct research work has to be presented.

The depth of the study should be at the level of a publication or a significant fraction of a future publication. Presentations of published work are allowed as long as the paper was published within a year of the symposium. Faculty of the organizing committee will select the speakers. Every graduate student may present a poster.

All chemistry graduate students in their second year and beyond are encouraged to participate by presenting their research at the symposium, either as a poster or as a talk.

An abstract not exceeding 200 words, should be submitted by all participants.