Final Oral Exams and PhD Graduation

A student must present their dissertation work within 4 years of advancing to candidacy. Time extensions may be made on a case-by-case basis.

All Math and Math Stat students must contact the Office of Graduate Studies (OGS) when scheduling their final oral (defense) exams. The OGS will assist you with the processing of departmental forms and the necessary paperwork for the Office of the Registrar and the Graduate School. Please contact Trystan Denhard and Jemma Natanson (Kirwan 1106/1108)  /  for further details. 

You must attend a graduation information session, which are advertised each semester. 

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    • Predictive Science and Deep Learning - A Bright Future or an Odd Couple?

      Speaker: Wolfgang Dahmen (Aachen, University of South Carolina) - https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/mathematics/our_people/directory/dahmen_wolfgang.php

      When: Wed, September 20, 2023 - 3:15pm
      Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
    • The optimal paper Moebius band

      Speaker: Richard Schwartz (Brown University) - https://www.math.brown.edu/reschwar/

      When: Fri, September 29, 2023 - 3:15pm
      Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
    • Riehl (TBA)

      Speaker: Emily Riehl (Johns Hopkins University) - https://math.jhu.edu/~eriehl/

      When: Fri, October 6, 2023 - 3:15pm
      Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
    • Categorification and geometry

      Speaker: Lars Hesselholt (Nagoya University) - https://www.math.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~larsh/

      When: Fri, October 13, 2023 - 3:15pm
      Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
    • Mathematics Around the Heisenberg Group

      Speaker: Roger Howe (Yale University) - https://www.norbertwiener.umd.edu/fft/2023/Speakers/Roger_Howe.html

      When: Thu, October 26, 2023 - 3:45pm
      Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
    • Decoding Time's Mysteries for Better Predictions

      Speaker: James Howard (Johns Hopkins University) - https://www.norbertwiener.umd.edu/fft/2023/Speakers/James_Howard.html

      When: Thu, October 26, 2023 - 6:45pm
      Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
    • A tale of two invariants

      Speaker: Paul Feehan (Rutgers) - https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~feehan/

      When: Wed, November 15, 2023 - 3:15pm
      Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
    • Using logic to study homeomorphism groups

      Speaker: Thomas Koberda (University of Virginia) - https://sites.google.com/view/koberdat

      When: Wed, November 29, 2023 - 3:15pm
      Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
    • Generative Models for Implicit Distribution Estimation: a Statistical Perspective

      Speaker: Yun Yang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) - https://sites.google.com/site/yunyangstat/

      When: Thu, January 25, 2024 - 3:30pm
      Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
    • Video Imputation and Prediction Methods with Applications in Space Weather

      Speaker: Yang Chen (University of Michigan) - https://yangchenfunstatistics.github.io/yangchen.github.io/

      When: Tue, January 30, 2024 - 4:00pm
      Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
    • Arboreal Galois groups: an introduction

      Speaker: Robert Benedetto (Amherst College) - https://rlbenedetto.people.amherst.edu/

      When: Wed, February 7, 2024 - 3:15pm
      Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
    • Higher theta series

      Speaker: Zhiwei Yun (MIT) - https://math.mit.edu/~zyun/

      When: Wed, February 28, 2024 - 3:15pm
      Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
    • Random lattices and their applications in number theory, geometry and statistical mechanics

      Speaker: Jens Marklof (School of Mathematics, University of Bristol) - https://www.bristol.ac.uk/people/person/Jens-Marklof-6eb63e14-a018-4833-9cf8-b95272b5a09e/

      When: Fri, March 1, 2024 - 3:15pm
      Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
    • TBA

      Speaker: Svetlana Jitomirskaya (University of California, Berkeley) - https://math.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/svetlana-jitomirskaya

      When: Thu, March 14, 2024 - 3:00pm
      Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
    • Instantaneous everywhere-blowup of parabolic stochastic PDEs

      Speaker: Davar Khoshnevisan (University of Utah) - http://www.math.utah.edu/~davar/

      When: Wed, April 3, 2024 - 3:15pm
      Where: Kirwan Hall 3206