Texas A M University Pre-College Summer STEM, College Station, TX 77843

SMaRT is aNational Science Foundationsupported two-week summer program at Texas A&M University. It is intended to facilitate interest in mathematics of advanced high school students. There are no fees. Due to the generous support of the National Science Foundation, the camp offers this year free room and board to accepted participants. The main topics to be considered for the new class will revolve, as in the previous years, around number theory, combinatorics, and algebra. Some important applications will also be addressed, e.g. coding and logical circuits. A more advanced topic will be offered to the returning students (in the past years these were "Knot Theory" and "Combinatorial Geometry"; to be decided for 2013). Each morning, except Sunday, a lecture will be given for the new class, which will introduce students to a variety of interrelated topics of number theory, algebra, combinatorics, and their applications. At a later time, a lecture will be given for the class of returning students. The lectures will only provide introductions and pointers, while most of technical work will be done by students, under counselors' guidance, when solving the daily sets of problems. Group meetings, guided by counselors and junior counselors will be held in each student group during the day and in the evening. Guest lectures by the TAMU faculty might be given on some afternoons. These lectures will be of expository nature and will address a variety of topics from mathematics and its applications.