As the name suggests the mini-Conference is rather brief and rather small. The talks are separated by 10-20 minute breaks, depending on the number of speakers.
Speakers talk on any topic they like.
About 100 people attend, mostly from the Southeast, but a few come from just about anywhere, including Canada, Europe and even South Africa. Since the conference is jointly sponsored by the Department of Mathematical Sciences and the Department of Computer Science, the dozen or so speakers are usually split between pure discrete mathematicians and algorithmic types, but sometimes it is difficult to determine into which category a speaker falls. The conference is low key, low expense. This permits many graduate students to attend. For cheaper airfares, some attendees stay in Clemson on Saturday and fly out Sunday morning.