The meeting was called to order by Kevin Charlwood; introductions were made including two new Board members: Kim Roth, finishing her Ph.D. at Penn State, and John Vano, finishing his Ph.D. at U. T. - Austin.

Attendance at the two panels ("Closing the Deal: The Campus Interview and Beyond" and "Tenure and Promotion" was reasonably strong, with each panel drawing about 40 attendees. The Town Meeting also had close to 40 in attendance.

New Business

I. Ideas for YMN in Baltimore in January, 2003.

(Meetings will be Wed. Jan. 15 - Sat. Jan 18 next year.)

A. Town Meeting. To be organized by Dave Kung. We will try something different - splitting attendees up into interest groups, and have a YMN Board member sit with each group and have discussions. Details to be worked out, but perhaps an undergraduate group, a group of post-docs, a group of new faculty, etc.

B. Panel #1. "An Overview of Interviews" to be co-organized by Dov Chelst and John Vano. Hopefully we can get a time slot on Wed. afternoon to help those going through the AMS Employment Center. Perhaps we will do some mock interviewing as part of the panel.

C. Panel #2. "Learning to Say No: Managing Your Time Effectively" to be co-organized by J. Lyn Miller and Karri Fogel.

D. YMN/Project NExT Poster Session to be co-organized by Ken Ross and Kevin Charlwood. It was brought out that those new to poster presentations should visit the following link for details on how to effectively assemble one:

http://www.siam.org/siamnews/general/poster.htm.

II. Volunteer Concerns editors for 2002

• January: Sharon Frechette
• February: Chawne Kimber
• March: Heather Ames Lewis
• April: Phil Gustafson
• May: Dave Kung
• June: J. Lyn Miller
• July: Karri Fogel

The was some discussion about archiving back issues of Concerns. Also, John Vano volunteered to help Emil, Dov and Birk with maintaining the current YMN website.