topics
- admission
- fellowships, summer support
- what did I do?
admission
Number of applications didn’t go down, but rather increased, to 571 (Math PhD).
Graduate Admission Committee did great job; special thanks to Aimo!
During the hot phase (early February – April 15), a lot of interactions with the faculty members: thank you!
Open House went well: propose to keep it virtual in the future.
Masters: 17 altogether (quite a few of them will help in the classrooms as TA).
PhDs program. Overshot in terms of acceptances: 18 fresh students; 3 MSc->PhD converts. Strong cohort, 14 international, 7 domestic. 5 women.
summer funding
Thanks to new funding (especially, Philippe Tondeur’s contribution, – thank you!), have really good prospects for student’s summer support.
But, make sure they use it properly: need your supervision.
report
what did I do over the past three years:
- shrank the PhD students program to about 120 students.
- introduced the graduate students’ advocates program. Seems to work!
- reformatted math499 course, – turned it into teaching module (thank you, April!) + ethics in math module (need a module on mathematical writing).
- introduction of teaching credits for graduate advising. (Larger scale reform of the 5xx courses is needed…)
- some streamlining of the comp system.