GROW 2025 will run all day Friday September 26 and Saturday September 27 at Columbia University.

The GROW conference is intended to provide support and encouragement to undergraduate students considering going to graduate school in the mathematical sciences and to help build a profession in which gender and sex are not barriers to participation. The conference runs annually, and is open to all undergraduates from U.S. colleges and universities, including international students. Students of all genders, sexualities, ethnicities, races, nationalities and religions are encouraged to apply to GROW and these characteristics will not be used in determining funding or participation decisions.

GROW began at Northwestern University in 2015, and ran there for three successive years. It has been hosted at different institutions yearly since then. For previous instances of GROW, see this link.

The application period for GROW 2025 is now open. Please see this link for how to apply. Full consideration will be given to applications received by August 22nd.

The plenary lecturers for this year are:

• The plenary lecturers for this year are:
• Jelena Bradic (Cornell)
• Robert Bryant (Duke)
• Anne Shiu (Texas A&M)
• Tatiana Toro (SLMath and University of Washington)
• Bin Yu (U.C. Berkeley)

GROW 2025 is organized by members of the Columbia Mathematics and Statistics Departments (Ivan Corwin, Richard Davis, Elena Giorgi, Giulia Saccà and Tian Zheng), and acknowledges generous support from the following sources: The Columbia University Department of Mathematics, Columbia University Department of Statistics, Columbia University Herbert and Florence Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics, Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University Data Science Institute, Jane Street and Two Sigma.

If you have questions, please first consult the conference website https://grow2025.math.columbia.edu/, and if that does not resolve your question, you can email ic2354@columbia.edu.