SIURO consists of articles written by undergraduate students in applied and computational mathematics, offering an opportunity for students to publish research they have completed as part of their undergraduate education and provides undergraduates incentives for conducting research. Each paper must be submitted with a letter from a project advisor. Faculty advisers or sponsors are listed as "project advisor" on the published paper. SIURO provides a great opportunity for undergraduate students to share their results and experience a full paper review process. High school students may also submit their work.

• The project advisor may be a faculty member at the student’s institution or at an institution the student is visiting, or someone associated with a non-academic organization or government lab who supervised the research.
• The project advisor’s letter must document the fact that the research was done while the student was an undergraduate and list the student’s graduation date or anticipated graduation date.
• Project advisors will be listed separately from the authors with a “project advisor” byline.