Friday, April 17, 2009
Hosted by the Saint Joseph's University Chapter of Sigma Xi
"A Celebration of Student Research"
The 20th Annual Sigma Xi Student Research Symposium will be held on Friday, April 17, 2008, at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. Undergraduate and Graduate students in the areas of math, computer science, engineering, natural and the social sciences are invited to present their research in poster form during one of two sessions that evening. Previous symposia have featured students from colleges and universities in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, and New York, with some coming from as far away as Minnesota, Texas, and Oklahoma.
This year's keynote speaker will be Sheila Patek, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley. Her talk is entitled "Airborne ants and smashing shrimp: accident and intent in the evolution of movement" and will be given at 5:00 pm in the Wolfington Teletorium of Mandeville Hall on the Saint Joseph's University campus. This talk is free and open to the public.
Abstracts are due by Thursday, March 26th. The registration fee is $25 and the fee to attend the banquet that evening at SJU is an additional $15. Abstracts and all registration materials must be submitted through the website (http://www.sju.edu/srs).