This page contains some information to help get you oriented for your arrival. You will be notified by email as more information is added.
Information about selecting your first semester courses.
- Attempt at the written qualifying exam.
The incoming students may attempt to take the Written Qualifying Exams in the August sitting upon their arrival. They can choose to take all three exams, two, one or none. Students who have yet to pass all three Written Qualifying Exams may choose how many exams (including none) they wish to attempt at the next exam sitting. The deadline to pass all three written qualifying exams is the fourth semester and must pass must pass at least one exam by the end of summer prior to the third semester.
Each entering student will be assigned a Faculty Mentor sometime during the summer, who will serve as your advisor until you select a research advisor (usually during your second or third year).
- Activities during the last two weeks of August
Mathematics Department orientation and pre-enrollment lectures: Pre-enrollment Lectures
The activities will include:
- Orientation information for the program,
- Introductory mathematics lecture series by faculty, with problem sessions led by senior graduate students.
- Expository lectures by advanced graduate students about their dissertation research
- Food and welcoming events.
All entering math Ph.D. and M.S. (traditional option) students should plan to attend.
All students should attend one of these two sessions. Further information will be sent to students by the graduate school.
All students who have appointments as a teaching assistant for the first time should attend. Those entering students supported on fellowships are also urged to attend, as attendance of this orientation will be required when their support source becomes teaching assistant.
All entering students from abroad who have a Teaching Assistantship should attend.
The three 2-hour exams will be given in person in the afternoons of Wednesday through Friday in the last week of August.