Year: 2025
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Professor Jesse Kass Featured in Quanta Magazine
We’re pleased to share that Professor Jesse Kass was recently featured in Quanta Magazine in the article “New Math Revives Geometry’s Oldest Problems”. The piece highlights Professor Kass’s collaborative research with Kirsten Wickelgren (Duke University), which brings new perspective to long-standing questions in enumerative geometry—the study of how many geometric objects satisfy particular conditions. Their…
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Math Awards 2025
Congratulations, Elyas Gharavi, and August Noe, winners of our Mathematics Awards for 2025 ! We applaud their accomplishments in the major. We are honored to celebrate their hard work and to be able to present them each with this year’s J.W.T. Youngs Memorial Undergraduate Award in Mathematics. We wish them all success in their future…
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Bob Hingtgen wins 2024-25 teaching award
Lecturer Bob Hingtgen will receive the 2024-25 Excellence in Teaching Award as well as the Ron Ruby Award. You can read more about the award, and other recipients, at this UCSC Academic Senate page. LINK : (full UCSC News article) [pending] LINK : Previous MATH winner (includes a brief explanation of what the Ron Ruby…
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Calculus Series Transitions Policy
For students who have already started one of the lower division calculus series but wish to transition into a higher level series please see below. This policy does not override a department’s ability to decide if an exception to major requirements is valid for that department’s major. Your major department may not accept the calculus…
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New website !
by mbbrumm We’re getting close to the initial (test) release of our new website. As designed by BarrettoCo, with thoughts from Science Division, input from the Math Department, and considerable development by yours truly, the wholly reworked site will debut (at least as a beta test) some time in June or July of 2025. It…
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Important Dates for Grads
Fall 2019 edition Fall 2024 Department Newsletter [PDF] (link coming soon!) Monday, August 26th – Thursday, September 19th MANDATORY Graduate Prep Program (GPP) for international students. All Graduate students who are non-native English speakers and have been offered a TAship for Fall will be required to attend GPP unless they meet the waiver requirements outlined…
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Resources for TAs
Click the name to see the item or go to the link. Mathematics TA Training Manual (PDF) TA section of GradDiv Grad Handbook Inclusive Classroom Practices Using 21st Century Pedagogy (PDF) (Fall 2018 special two-day TA training with ACE, CITL, HSI, & LSS) TA Starter Guide (PDF) TA Jobs Google Group (for TAships outside of the…
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Ph.D. Degree Timetable
Requirement Targeted Time Preliminary Exams End of second year Language Exam (If required) End of third year Oral Qualifying Exam(Advancement to Candidacy) Between seventh and twelfth quarters Dissertation Defense Four to six years
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Core Sequences
What is a core sequence ? A three-course sequence in each of three core areas (algebra, analysis, and geometry-topology (manifolds)). The sequences are offered every year, starting in Fall quarter. Ph.D. students who do not achieve a first-level pass on a field’s preliminary exam are required to complete the full 3-course core sequence for that…
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Grad Forms and Docs
Mathematics Graduate Student Handbook (g-doc) Mathematics Independent Study Request Form (PDF) Graduate Student Mentoring Packet (PDF) TA Manual and Other TA Forms (resources for TAs) Mathematics Funding Request Form 4+1 Application (PDF) Grad Division Forms Please click HERE to visit the Graduate Division’s website for the most up-to-date graduate forms, such as: Petition for Transfer of Graduate…
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Request Funding (current grads)
Current Mathematics graduate students may request funding for a variety of reasons, whether for professional development or unexpected financial hardship. A funding request is required for both advance payment requests and reimbursement requests. Requests are accepted on a rolling basis; however, funds are usually disbursed at the beginning of each quarter. How to Request Money…
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What is Title IX?
“No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.” – Title IX, Education Amendments of 1972, Section 1681(a). Title IX is a comprehensive federal law that prohibits…