Young Investigators Symposium at the Department of Chemistry

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.

SYMPOSIUM FORMAT:
Two 3-hour sessions
15-25 min talk and 5 min of questions per presentation (Depending on the number of participants)
2 hour poster session
Make posters accessible during the whole time of the symposium
Oral Presentations
Poster Presentations

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