March 31, 2025

 

This Week's Ph.D. Newsletter Includes

  • Upcoming Deadlines: Summer TA-ship application, course withdrawal deadline
  • Student Spotlight:   Jiaqi Liu
  • Announcements: Summer and Fall registration, Erdos Institute Summer Opportunity, SOCAMS 2025
  • Upcoming Events: MGSA End of Year Celebration, Department Awards Ceremony, and more!

Upcoming Deadlines

  • THIS FRIDAY, APRIL 4th: Deadline to apply for a Summer 2025 TA-ship
  • NEXT MONDAY, APRIL 7th: Deadline for eligible 2025 PhD graduates to register for the PhD Hooding Ceremony 
  • APRIL 11th: Last day to drop a class with a mark of “W” for Session 001

Student Spotlight

 

Congratulations to Jiaqi Liu for being awarded a 2025-2026 Russell Endowed Dissertation Completion Fellowship! Jiaqi was selected from a pool of nominees across the university based on the compelling strength of her work on imploding and exploding shock waves, which can be described by the non-isentropic Euler equations, a classical subject in gas dynamics. Jiaqi currently has three papers out, two appearing soon in Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (ARMA) and SIAM journal for Analysis (SIMA), both high level PDE journals. With this additional year of full fellowship support, we’re certain Jiaqi will achieve even more outstanding results. Congratulations, Jiaqi, on this well-deserved award!

Announcements

 

Summer and Fall Registration

  • If you are planning to take a summer course at USC, please register as soon as possible. Courses may be cancelled due to low enrollment
  • If you will be at USC this summer, please register in GRSC 802 as soon as possible. GRSC 802 will give students full-time status so that they have access to the student health center, as well as enabling summer pay to process and maintain their health insurance
  • In Fall 2025, Math 540 will change to Math 540a. The content will remain the same, but this updated course number resulted from the creation of a new course, Math 540b, which the department hopes to offer in a future spring semester
 

 

The Erdős Institute Summer 2025 Career Launch Cohort enrollment window is now open!

The Erdős Institute is a multi-university consortium that helps graduate students and PhDs get rewarding jobs in industry and off-loads non-academic professional development mentorship from graduate school programs. We provide fully remote Boot Camps and asynchronous mini-courses taught by former academics for current academics. We also provide career coaching and industry placement services.

The Summer 2025 Cohort runs from May 7 through August 15, 2025.

Graduate students and PhDs may create their account and enroll by Thursday, May 1, 2025 at 11:59pm ET: https://www.erdosinstitute.org/cohort/summer-2025/enrollment

 

 

The Southern California Applied Mathematics Symposium (SOCAMS) 2025 will be held on April 26, 2025, at the University of California, Riverside.

SOCAMS 2025 is a unique opportunity to connect and exchange ideas with researchers from universities throughout Southern California who work in all areas of Applied and Computational Mathematics. This one-day event is designed to provide a platform for young faculty, post-docs, and graduate students to showcase their research work in an informal and collaborative atmosphere.

To register and access more information, please visit the SOCAMS 2025 website at https://www.socams.org/.

 

Upcoming Events

 
 
 
 

DGS Office Hours

Mondays 1-3pm
Zoom Meeting ID: 539 730 6919

 

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