The Israel Mathematical Union is happy to announce the Annual Students’ Talks Day, which will be held this year at Bar-Ilan University on July 7 (the day after the Annual IMU meeting). The main objective of this day is to allow students to gain experience in preparing and presenting a mathematical research talk, as well as to provide exposure to the mathematical work done by Israeli students.

On the program we shall have a plenary talk by an Israeli mathematician and an invited talk by the 2025 Nessyahu prize laureate. The main part of the program will consist of 20-minute long talks given by students. All students in all undergraduate or graduate programs at Israeli academic institutions are eligible to submit a proposal of no longer than 500 words via the Google Forms link on the main page by Monday, May 5, at midnight .The talks which will be presented on the Annual Students’ Talks Day will be announced by June 5. See additional details concerning the submission process below.

At the end of the event up to four awards of 1000 NIS each will be awarded to the students who delivered the most outstanding talks, chosen by a committee of Israeli mathematicians from various research areas. Criteria for the excellence of a talk are divided between the quality of the result presented in the talk and the quality of its presentation, where the quality of presentation evaluates the success in conveying the main ideas (rather than the aesthetics of the slides, for example).

As a default, the talks should be presented in English. Those who wish to do otherwise may contact the organizer.

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Additional information:

1. All students in all math programs, undergraduate and graduate alike, can apply to present a talk on the Annual Israel Mathematical Union Students' Talks Day.

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2. A student who cannot present her or his proposal properly within the limit of 500 words may contact the organizer and request permission for a longer proposal.

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3. The proposers are invited (but not obliged) to enclose the full version of the paper on which the talk is based or a link to the full version on ArXiv, but there is no promise that the full version will be read by the committee members.

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4. Works by the proposer with coauthors may be submitted, if the proposer contributed the main part of the work.