"A Celebration of Student Research"

       The 18th annual Sigma Xi Student Research Symposium will be held on Friday, April 20, 2007, at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. Undergraduate and Graduate students in the areas of math, computer science, engineering, the natural and the social sciences are invited to present their work.  Previous symposia have featured posters presented by students from colleges and universities in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, and  New York, with some students coming from as far away as Minnesota, Texas, Ohio,Oklahoma and Virginia.
       

      Students are invited to present the results of their work in poster form during one of two sessions that evening. Poster boards that are 4' x 4' will be provided.
       

      This year's speaker will be the George Coyne, S.J., Ph.D., Director Emeritus of the Vatican Observatory and visiting faculty member at the University of Arizona Department of Astronomy. His talk is entitled "The Age of the Universe" and will be at 5:00 pm in the Wolfington Teletorium of Mandeville Hall on the Saint Joseph's University campus. His talk is free and open to the public.
       

     Abstracts for posters and talks are due by Friday, March 23rd. The registration fee is $25 and the fee to attend the banquet at SJU is an additional $10. Abstracts and all registration materials must be submitted through our web-site (http://www.sju.edu/srs).
A mailing containing announcement posters, and additional information will be sent out shortly all schools that have previously participated in the symposium. 

    If you would like to be added to our mailing list, please contact Dr. Paul Angiolillo via e-mail at pangioli@sju.edu. 

   We look forward to seeing you in April!