% latex annual.rpt.tex % dvips annual.rpt.dvi -o annual.rpt.ps % lpr -Fd -Pljp_cs annual.rpt.dvi \documentclass[11pt,twoside]{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{fullpage} \usepackage{hyperref, wasysym} \usepackage{times} \usepackage{tabularx} \usepackage{pslatex} %*********** CHANGE THESE ************ \newcommand{\Name}{{Put your name here}} \newcommand{\Numberoftermsinprogram}{{Put number of terms completed here (eg., 2)}} \newcommand{\Supervisor}{{Put your Supervisor's name(s) here}} %*********** END OF CHANGES ************ \setlength{\topmargin}{-1cm} \setlength{\headheight}{1cm} \setlength{\headsep}{1cm} \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, 2024 - April 30, 2025} \\\\ \textbf{NAME}\hspace{5mm}\Name\hfill\textbf{TERM}\hspace{5mm}\Numberoftermsinprogram }% parbox }% evenhead \renewcommand{\@oddhead}{ \parbox{\textwidth}{\large \textbf{ACTIVITY REPORT \hfill May 1, 2024 - April 30, 2025} \\\\ \textbf{NAME}\hspace{5mm}\Name\hfill\textbf{TERM}\hspace{5mm}\Numberoftermsinprogram }% 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 \raggedbottom \begin{document} \pagestyle{special} \thispagestyle{empty} % no heading or page number on first page \vspace*{-4cm} % remove extra space at top of first page \begin{center} {\Large \bf Activity Report for Pure Math Doctoral Students \\ Report Period: May 1, 2024 - April 30, 2025 \\ } \end{center} {\large\textbf{NAME:}\hspace{5mm}\Name\vspace{2mm} \\ \textbf{NUMBER OF TERMS COMPLETED IN CURRENT PROGRAM:}\hspace{5mm}\Numberoftermsinprogram\vspace{2mm} \\ \textbf{SUPERVISOR:}\hspace{5mm}\Supervisor\vspace{2mm} If you have completed the Qualifying Examination requirement, please name your two additional \\ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS. (You may ask your supervisor about this.)\\ {First Member's name},\hfill {Second Member's 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/Winter/Spring 20xx} & {PMATH xxx} & {xx} & {yes} \\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{center} \textbf{Your most recent Cumulative average is}\hspace{5mm}{xx.xx} \\ 2. Describe your teaching assistantship duties during the report period, including any courses that you taught.\\ %\hspace{5mm}{TAed PMATH xxx.}\\ 3. Describe your service activities during the report period (examples: committee duties, seminar organizer, GSA involvement, outreach, recruitment).\\ %\hspace{5mm}{Hosted Putnam practice sessions.}\\ 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.)}\\ %\hspace{5mm}{Attended the Category Theory and Generalized Diagram Chasing Seminar}\\ 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.\\ %\hspace{5mm}{``An Explicit Bijection Between $\mathbb{Z}$ and $\mathbb{R}$", April 31, 2024, The viXra Seminar}\\ 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 %\item A Different Awesome Award F22, W23 %\end{itemize} 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, submitted. \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 %{\huge \CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} {September 16, 2024 Brent Nelson, Michigan State University ``Uniqueness of almost periodic states on hyperfinite factors"}\\ \medskip \noindent %{\CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} {September 23, 2024 Robert Haslhofer, University of Toronto ``Mean curvature flow through singularities"}\\ \medskip \noindent %{\huge \CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} {September 30, 2024 Gregory G. Smith, Queen's University ``Sums of Squares and Projective Geometry"}\\ \medskip \noindent %{\huge \CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} {October 7, 2024 Matthew Harrison-Trainor, University of Illinois at Chicago ``Back-and-forth games to characterize countable structures"}\\ \medskip \noindent %{\huge \CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} {October 21, 2024 Anand Pillay, University of Notre Dame ``Quasirandomness of definable subsets of algebraic groups over finite fields"}\\ \medskip \noindent %{\huge \CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} {November 18, 2024 Jon Brundan, University of Oregon ``Classical representation theory via categorification"}\\ \medskip \noindent %{\huge \CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} {January 13, 2025 Almut Burchard, University of Toronto ``On spatial monotonicity of heat kernels"}\\ \medskip \noindent %{\huge \CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} {January 20, 2025 Daniel Gromada, Czech Technical University ``A brief introduction to quantum symmetries"}\\ \medskip \noindent %{\huge \CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} {January 27, 2025 Michael Chapman, NYU (Courant Institute) ``Subgroup Tests adn the Aldous-Lyons conjecture"}\\ \medskip \noindent %{\huge \CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} {February 24, 2025 Carlo Pagano, Concordia University ``Hilbert 10 via additive combinatorics"}\\ \medskip \noindent %{\huge \CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} {March 10, 2025 Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University ``Affine invariants in convex geometry"}\\ \medskip \noindent %{\huge \CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} {March 17, 2025 Andy Zucker, University of Waterloo ``Minimal dynamics of topological groups: A set-theoretic perspective"}\\ \medskip \noindent %{\huge \CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} {March 31, 2025 Mark Rudelson, University of Michigan ``When a system of real quadratic equations has a solution"}\\ \pagebreak \textbf{Graduate Student Colloquia:} \medskip \noindent %{\huge \CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} {August 10, 2024 Adina Goldberg, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo ``Categorial Strings for Quantum Things"}\\ \medskip \noindent %{\huge \CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} {November 13, 2024 Larissa Kroell, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo ``What's that called again? An incomplete journey through ridiculous math names"}\\ \medskip \noindent %{\huge \CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} {December 6, 2024 Thomas Bray, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo ``To b or Not to b: The Art of Generalizing Metric Spaces"}\\ \medskip \noindent %{\huge \CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} {February 14, 2025 Sourabhashis Das, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo ``Love, Life, and the Math Behind It - Solving the Ultimate Equation"}\\ \medskip \noindent %{\huge \CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} {March 3, 2025 Jacques van Wyk, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo ``The Mathematics of Tuning an Instrument; or, Why a Piano Is Always our of Tune"}\\ \medskip \noindent %{\huge \CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} {April 4, 2025 Nicolas Banks, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo ``Non-Trivial Theorems with Trivial Proofs"}\\ \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?\\ %\hspace{5mm}{Fall 2024 (term 1 of 12)}\\ 2. Complete all of your course requirements?\\ %\hspace{5mm}{Winter 2025 (term 2 of 12)}\\ 3. Give your supervisor a complete first draft of your PhD thesis?\\ %\hspace{5mm}{Winter 2028 (term 11 of 12)}\\ 4. Complete your Lecturing requirement?\\ %\hspace{5mm}{Winter 2025 (term 2 of 12)}\\ 5. Defend your PhD thesis?\\ %\hspace{5mm}{Spring 2028 (term 12 of 12)}\\ \pagebreak \textbf{Statement on Research Progress}\\ 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.\\ \hspace{5mm} %This is where you write about what you have been working on. Remember, 1-2 pages means that it shouldn't fit onto just the page with the question on it! \end{document}