Graduate program Dec' 14, 2004, Laszlo Mihaly

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Graduate program Dec. 14, 2004, Laszlo Mihaly

• 40 Ph.D. 7 exchange students
• Doing reasonably well in core courses
• Will look for summer jobs
• Very regular Friday Seminars, Dept. pays
  expenses!
• Tuition charges are coming
• BNL scientists are still looking for our students

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Admission, visiting weekend

• Recruiting
• Letters sent to Dept. Chairs
• Letters will go to potential applicants
• Application fee waived for NSF and other
  applicants
• Try to match salary for two more years
  (30k/year)
• Please contact potential applicants (US and
  Foreign)
• Exchange Students Still coming, but tuition
  hurts
• Visiting weekend April 3,4
• Sunday Arrival, Three Village Inn Party
• Monday morning Research talks, visit classes,
  labs
• Monday afternoon BNL visit
• Monday evening faculty dinners

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Ph.D. Exams

• Exam should be scheduled and committee approved
  at least three weeks before the actual date. All
  exams are public, and posted on the WEB by the
  Grad School
• Committee rules (Grad School / internal)
• At least three faculty member and one outside
  member
• three faculty member ... one experimenter, one
  theorist, one outside of the research field...
• Recently added by the Grad Committee At least
  50 of the committee and the chair should be
  regular faculty
• Participation in Oral and Ph.D. exam committees
  is uneven

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Written Exams

• Qual Exam is now called Placement Exam. No
  change is rules (see September faculty meeting).
• Comp exam Grad. Committee will review the role
  of this exam, will prepare a document summarizing
  traditions and goals. No (major) change is
  planned. Comments are very much welcome
• is division to Breadth/Experiment appropriate
• do we need a Theory section
• astronomy faculty prepares 8 exam problems each
  year - is this OK?
• exam represents
• physics and astronomy as done in the Department?
• p a as seen by society (e.g. APS divisions,
  PRL)?
• p a as seen by funding agencies?
• Adding more problems on biological physics,
  advanced stat. mech, string theory....