% macros prepared by Peter Buhr % latex annual.rpt.tex % dvips annual.rpt.dvi -o annual.rpt.ps % lpr -Fd -Pljp_cs annual.rpt.dvi \documentclass[11pt,twoside]{article} \usepackage{fullpage} \usepackage{hyperref, wasysym} \usepackage{times} \usepackage{tabularx} \usepackage{pslatex} %\usepackage{amsmath} %*********** CHANGE THESE ************ \newcommand{\Name}{YOUR NAME} \vspace{0.1in} \newcommand{\Numberoftermsinprogram}{Term} %*********** END OF CHANGES ************ \setlength{\topmargin}{-0.5in} \setlength{\headheight}{0.5in} \setlength{\headsep}{0.5in} \setlength{\parindent}{0pt} \def\newblock{\hskip .11em plus .33em minus .07em} % used by bibtex \makeatletter % reduce spacing between points in \itemize \def\itemize{% \ifnum \@itemdepth >\thr@@\@toodeep\else \advance\@itemdepth\@ne \edef\@itemitem{labelitem\romannumeral\the\@itemdepth}% \expandafter \list \csname\@itemitem\endcsname {\def\makelabel##1{\hss\llap{##1}}\topsep=5pt\itemsep=0pt\parsep=3pt}% \fi} % setup running heading/footing \newcommand{\ps@special}{% \renewcommand{\@evenhead}{ \parbox{\textwidth}{\large \textbf{ACTIVITY REPORT \hfill May 1, 2022 - April 30, 2023} \\ \ \\ \textbf{NAME}\ \underline{\makebox[6.5cm][l]{\ \Name}}\hfill\textbf{TERM}\ \underline{\makebox[6.5cm][l]{Cumulative Terms}} }% parbox }% evenhead \renewcommand{\@oddhead}{ \parbox{\textwidth}{\large \textbf{ACTIVITY REPORT \hfill May 1, 2022 - April 30, 2023} \\ \ \\ \textbf{NAME}\ \underline{\makebox[5cm][l]{\ \Name}}\hfill\textbf{TERM}\ \underline{\makebox[6.5cm][l]{Cumulative Terms}} }% parbox }% oddhead \renewcommand{\@oddfoot}{\hfil Page \thepage}% \renewcommand{\@evenfoot}{Page \thepage\hfil} } % adjust section heading \def\section{\@startsection{section}{1}{\z@}{-2.5ex \@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}{0.5ex}{\large\bf}} \makeatother \begin{document} \pagestyle{special} \thispagestyle{empty} % no heading or page number on first page \vspace*{-1.5in} % remove extra space at top of first page \begin{center} {\Large \bf Activity Report for Pure Math Doctoral Students \\ Report Period: May 1, 2022 - April 30, 2023 \\ } \end{center} \vspace{0.1in} {\large \textbf{NAME}\ \underline{\makebox[5cm][l]{\ \Name}}\hfill\ \\ \vspace{0.1in} \textbf{NUMBER OF TERMS COMPLETED IN CURRENT PROGRAM}\ \underline{\makebox[6.5cm][l]{Cumulative Terms}}\\ \vspace{0.1in} \textbf{SUPERVISOR}\ \underline{\makebox[5cm][l]{Supervisor's Name}}\hfill\ \\ \vspace{0.1in} \textbf{CO-SUPERVISOR}\ \underline{\makebox[5cm][l]{CoSupervisor's Name}}\hfill\ \\} \vspace{0.1in} If you have completed the Qualifying Examination requirement, please name your two additional \\ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS. (You may ask your supervisor about this.)\\ %\underline{\makebox[6cm][l]{\ }},\hfill\ \underline{\makebox[6cm][l]{\ }}\hfill\ \underline{\makebox[5cm][l]{First Advisory Name}},\hfill\ \underline{\makebox[5cm][l]{Second Advisory Name}}\hfill\ \vspace{2cm} 1. Please list the mathematics courses you have taken since you started your PhD program, and indicate which ones you will use towards your course requirement. \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{|{p}{0.25\linewidth}|{p}{0.25\linewidth}|{p}{0.25\linewidth}|{p}{0.25\linewidth}|} \hline \multicolumn{1}{|c|}{\textbf{Term}} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{\textbf{Course Number}} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{\textbf{Grade}} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{\textbf{Use towards Course Req?}}\\ \hline Fall 2022 & PMath XXX & XX & yes/no \\ & & & \\ & & & \\ & & & \\ & & & \\ & & & \\ & & & \\ & & & \\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{center} \textbf{Your most recent Cumulative average is}\ \underline{\makebox[5cm][l]{\ }}\hfill\ \\ 2. Describe your teaching assistantship duties during the report period, including any courses that you taught. \vspace{0.1in} 3. Describe your service activities during the report period (examples: committee duties, seminar organizer, GSA involvement, outreach, recruitment). \vspace{0.1in} 4. Please list all the seminars that you attended on a regular basis during the report period. \textbf{(Recall that regular participation in a departmental seminar is expected as part of the PhD Lecturing Requirement.)} \vspace{0.1in} 5. List any talks that you have given in the report period. Please give titles, dates and indicate in which course, seminar, etc. you made your presentation. \vspace{0.1in} 6. List all major awards (e.g. NSERC/OGS/QEII) you have held during your current program. %\begin{itemize} %\item NSERC CGS-M F22, W23, S23 %\item OGS F22, W23, S23 %\end{itemize} \vspace{0.1in} 7. List all publications and preprints from your time in the current program; please include links to papers. %\begin{itemize} %\item A. Student, B. Collaborator, How to Submit an Annual Activity report, \emph{Awesome Journal}, \url{https://uwaterloo.ca/pure-mathematics/graduate-studies/current-students/phd-annual-activity-report}, accepted. %\item A. Student, A newer paper, link-to-paper, submited. %\end{itemize} \pagebreak 8. Please check the box for the Pure Math department colloquia or Pure Math Graduate student colloquia listed below, that you attended during the report period.\\ \textbf{Department Colloquia:} \medskip \noindent %{\CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} SEPTEMBER 12, 2022 Claude LeBrun, Stony Brook University ``Four-Manifolds, Conformal Curvature, and Differential Topology"\\ %{\CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} OCTOBER 31, 2022 Joseph H. Silverman, Brown University ``Finite Orbits of Points on Surfaces that Admit Three Non-commuting Involutions"\\ %{\CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} NOVEMBER 21, 2022 Jenna Rajchgot, McMaster University ``Symmetric quivers and symmetric varieties"\\ %{\CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} NOVEMBER 28, 2022 Catherine Pfaff, Queen's University ``Deformation Spaces, R-Trees, \& What Happens When You Iterate a Free Group Automorphism"\\ %{\CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} JANUARY 16, 2023 David Kribs, University of Guelph ``Quantum error correction and operator algebras"\\ %{\CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} JANUARY 23, 2023 Dmitry Ryabogin, Kent State University ``On bodies floating in equilibrium in every orientation"\\ %{\CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} JANUARY 30, 2023, Ian Hambleton, McMaster University ``Euler Characteristics and 4-manifolds"\\ %{\CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} FEBRUARY 6, 2023, Ronnie Nagloo, University of Illinois at Chicago ``Applications of model theory to functional transcendence"\\ %{\CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} FEBRUARY 13, 2023, Patrick Ingram, York University ``Variation of canonical heights in arithmetic dynamics"\\ {\huge \Square} FEBRUARY 27, 2023, Matilde Lalin, University of Montreal ``Sums of the divisor function and random matrix distributions"\\ {\huge \Square} MARCH 13, 2023, Dan Christensen, Western University ``An introduction to homotopy type theory"\\ {\huge \Square} MARCH 20, 2023, Jason Lotay, Oxford University ``Minimal Lagrangians and where to find them"\\ {\huge \Square} MARCH 27, 2023, Guoliang Yu, Texas A&M University ``Index theory of the Dirac operator on manifolds with polyhedral boundary and its applications"\\ {\huge \Square} APRIL 3, 2023, Sarah Koch, University of Michigan ``Dynamical data: from topology to algebra"\\ \textbf{Graduate Student Colloquia:} \medskip \noindent %{\CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} MAY 27, 2022 Aiden Suter, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo ``A brief overview of monstrous moonshine"\\ %{\CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} JUNE 22, 2022 Sabrina Lato, Department of Combinatorics \& Optimization, University of Waterloo ``Perron, Frobenius, and some unexpected applications"\\ %{\CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} JULY 8, 2022 Spencer Whitehead, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo ``$3 + \epsilon$ ways to draw the same picture, or, how to earn the ire of a class of first year linear algebra students"\\ %{\CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} SEPTEMBER 30, 2022 Yuming Zhao, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo ``Positivity and sum-of-squares"\\ %{\CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} OCTOBER 21, 2022 Xingchi Ruan, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo ``Lower bounds on solubility of Diophantine systems"\\ %{\CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} NOVEMBER 4, 2022 Kieran Mastel, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo ``Surreal Numbers and Games"\\ %{\CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} NOVEMBER 24, 2022 Brady Ali Medina, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo ``Sidon Sets"\\ %{\CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} DECEMBER 6, 2022 Yash Singh, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo ``Galois theory and the Jugendtraum"\\ %{\CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} DECEMBER 8, 2022 Rian Neogi, Combinatorics \& Optimization, University of Waterloo ``The Birth of Computation"\\ %{\CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} FEBRUARY 3, 2023 Sean Monahan, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo ``Spot it! and why it! (works)"\\ %{\CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} MARCH 6, 2023 Amanda Petcu, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo ``A History of Women in Math"\\ %{\CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} APRIL 6, 2023 Robert Harris, Pure Math Department, University of Waterloo, ``Constructing paper numbers and other applications of folds"\\ %{\CheckedBox} \newpage \textbf{Timeline to Completion}\\ Recall that the PhD program has a 12 term limit. Please give your best estimate for when you expect to achieve each of the following, indicating both the name of the term and its position in your term count, without leaving any blank:\\ \vspace{.2cm} 1. Complete your Qualifying Exam milestone?\\ % Fall 2022, term 1 of 12 2. Complete all of your course requirements?\\ 3. Give your supervisor a complete first draft of your PhD thesis?\\ 4. Complete your Lecturing requirement?\\ 5. Defend your PhD thesis?\\ \newpage \textbf{Statement on Research Progress}\\ If you completed your Qualifying Exam Milestone, and thus have arranged an Advisory Committee, please include a 1-2 page statement describing your research progress. Namely, describe the problems/topics studied during the report period, highlight your research achievements (citing any papers listed in question 7), and describe any continuing/new problems/topics to be considered in the upcoming academic year. \end{document}