The following events are on Thursday, 11 September, unless specified otherwise.

These events are not exclusive to our student participants but are a subset of the events of the conference geared for student involvement.

More information can be found in the Conference Schedule.

• Undergraduate Presentations
  
  This year we have thirteen presentations from undergraduate students.  The student sessions run from 10:30 am until 3:20 pm on Thursday, 11 September, and from 10:00 until 10:55 am on Friday, 12 September. All talks are in the University Center Rooms 332, 333.
   
• Mathematics Colloquium
  
  The Mathematics Colloquium, "Planar Graphs, Parallel Computing, and the Traveling Salesman Problem", will be presented by Dr. William Cook, Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, at 4:10 pm in the UC Theatre. This talk will be preceded by a short reception in the UC 3rd floor Theatre Lobby.
   
• Panel Discussion and Pizza Dinner
  
  Free Pizza! At 5:30 pm in MA 109, we invite our high school, undergraduate, and graduate student participants to join us for dinner and discussion. Our student attendees bring a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences, and we will draw on many of them in this session. This will be an opportunity to talk to students from various schools and get your questions answered about summer research programs, internships, graduate school, GREs, and life/classes at other schools. All are invited to attend, and we extend a special invitation to high school students and their teachers. A pizza dinner will follow. Please sign up in advance for the (free) pizza dinner, bigsky@mso.umt.edu.
   
• Public Lecture
  
  At 8:00 pm Dr. William Cook will present the Public Lecture ,  "The Traveling Salesman Problem and Optimization on a Grand Scale". The entire community is invited to this general audience presentation. The lecture is in the University's Music Recital Hall.
   
• More Conference!
  
  The conference continues through noon Saturday, followed by a rafting trip that afternoon.  We certainly invite everyone to all conference events.

For more information send e-mail to bigsky@mso.umt.edu.
Financial support is provided by the NSF and the University of Montana.