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Deadline |
Task |
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Fall 2009 |
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September
8-15 |
Visit your Initial Comps
Advisor with a paragraph summary of your Comps Topic. |
| September 15 |
Comps Advisors
confirmed. Class meeting. |
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October 6 |
Check-in meeting. Bring
Topic, Abstract, Brief Outline and Sources. YOU SHOULD BE MEETING WITH
ADVISORS WEEKLY. Class meeting. |
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October 13 |
Bring Draft Comps
Project Proposals to class for review. Class
Meeting. |
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October 16 |
Comps Project
Project proposals (at least 3 pages) due to Math Dept at 5pm by
email.
Project
Proposals must answer:
0) Who is your Comps Advisor?
1) What is the title?
2) What is the abstract?
3) What sources have you looked at AND how will you use them
(annotated bibliography-- at least 5 sources recommended)
4) What are the mathematical topics and ideas to be used and
explained in the paper?
5) What course work prepares you for this topic?
Proposals
should include a reasonably clear outline of the entire paper |
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October 26 |
Department Decision on
Comps Project proposals made. |
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October 27 |
Comps Project proposals
returned. Selection of oral presentation order made.
Class meeting |
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November 10 |
Check-in on progress
towards penultimate draft. Class meeting. |
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November 23 |
First Complete Draft of
Paper due to Me (and Advisors) in hard copy form. All drafts
must have
1) 100-word abstract
2) Works cited page
3) Thesis sentence bolded in the introductory paragraph |
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December 9 |
Penultimate Draft
of Comps Paper due To Me (and Advisors) by 5pm by email.
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Spring 2010 |
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Second Week
Of Classes. |
Comments on penultimate
draft returned to students. Class Meeting. |
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End of
February |
Outline of Comps Talk
prepared (in PowerPoint) and submitted by email |
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March 5 |
Final draft of Comps Papers due by email at 5pm to Me. |
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March 25 |
Senior Comprehensives Talks
will be conducted in 4 consecutive weeks on Thursdays 4:30-6pm
in Fowler 302.
All Senior and Junior Math majors must attend all talks.
Gabriela Rodriguez will
deliver her Senior Comps presentation. |
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April 1 |
Senior Comprehensives Talks
will be conducted in 4 consecutive weeks on Thursdays 4:30-6pm
in Fowler 302.
All Senior and Junior Math majors must attend all talks.
Zhengyi (Jenny) Zhou will
deliver an Honors presentation. |
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April 8 |
Senior Comprehensives Talks
will be conducted in 4 consecutive weeks on Thursdays 4:30-6pm
in Fowler 302.
All Senior and Junior Math majors must attend all talks.
Elizabeth Mojarro and Jason
Jebbia will each deliver their Senior Comps presentation. |
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April 19 |
Senior Comprehensives
Grades determined by Department faculty and communicated to
Registrar |
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Early May |
Graduating
Math Majors Party!!!
(and presentation of the Benedict Freedman Senior Prize in
Mathematics) |