% 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{\ReportStartYear}{2025} \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}} \newcommand{\ReportEndYear}{\number\numexpr\ReportStartYear+1\relax} \newcommand{\YearOffset}[1]{\number\numexpr\ReportStartYear+#1\relax} \newcommand{\ReportPeriod}{May 1, \ReportStartYear - April 30, \ReportEndYear} \newcommand{\StartYearDate}[2]{#1 #2, \ReportStartYear} \newcommand{\EndYearDate}[2]{#1 #2, \ReportEndYear} %*********** 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 \ReportPeriod} \\\\ \textbf{NAME}\hspace{5mm}\Name\hfill\textbf{TERM}\hspace{5mm}\Numberoftermsinprogram }% parbox }% evenhead \renewcommand{\@oddhead}{ \parbox{\textwidth}{\large \textbf{ACTIVITY REPORT \hfill \ReportPeriod} \\\\ \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: \ReportPeriod \\ } \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}{0.15\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 \ReportStartYear} & {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 $\mathbb{R}$", \StartYearDate{April}{31}, 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} {May 5, 2025 Laura DeMarco, Harvard University ``Distinguished International Women in Math Day Colloquium''}\\ \medskip \noindent %{\huge \CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} {September 15, 2025 Mattias Jonsson, University of Michigan ``Algebraic, analytic, and non-Archimedean geometry:''}\\ \medskip \noindent %{\huge \CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} {September 22, 2025 Anton Bernshteyn, UCLA ``Minimal subdynamics and its applications''}\\ \medskip \noindent %{\huge \CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} {October 6, 2025 Kateryna Tatarko, University of Waterloo ``Isoperimetric problem: from classical to reverse''}\\ \medskip \noindent %{\huge \CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} {November 5, 2025 Joel Kamnitzer, McGill University ``The top-heavy conjecture and the topology of (real) matroid Schubert varieties''}\\ \medskip \noindent %{\huge \CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} {November 10, 2025 Patrick Naylor, McMaster University ``Doubling Gluck twists''}\\ \medskip \noindent %{\huge \CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} {November 17, 2025 Yunqing Tang, Berkeley ``Irrationality of periods''}\\ \medskip \noindent %{\huge \CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} {November 24, 2025 Mateusz Wasilewski, Polish Academy of Sciences ``Quantum graphs and their symmetries''}\\ \medskip \noindent %{\huge \CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} {February 2, 2026 Luke Postle, University of Waterloo ``A New Proof of the Existence Conjecture and its Applications to Extremal and Probabilistic Design Theory''}\\ \medskip \noindent %{\huge \CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} {February 23, 2026 Tommaso Pacini, University of Torino ``K\"ahler techniques beyond K\"ahler geometry: the case of pluripotential theory''}\\ \medskip \noindent %{\huge \CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} {March 30, 2026 Damaris Schindler, University of G\"ottingen ``Density of rational points near manifolds''}\\ \textbf{Graduate Student Colloquia:} \medskip \noindent %{\huge \CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} {May 23, 2025 Francisco Villacis, University of Waterloo ``Graduate Student Colloquium''}\\ \noindent %{\huge \CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} {November 21, 2025 Jack Jia, University of Waterloo ``Langlands Correspondence: Local, Global, and Possibly Geometric.''}\\ \medskip \noindent %{\huge \CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} {December 4, 2025 Jon Cheah, University of Hong Kong ``An advertisement of cluster algebras''}\\ \medskip \noindent %{\huge \CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} {December 16, 2025 Jacques Gideon van Wyk, McMaster University ``A Lucky Game of Yahtzee Over Christmas''}\\ \medskip \noindent %{\huge \CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} {February 27, 2026 ``Open Mic''}\\ \medskip \noindent %{\huge \CheckedBox} {\huge \Square} {March 2, 2026 Xiao Zhong, University of Waterloo ``Bounds on the Greatest Common Divisors and a Dynamical Analogy''}\\ \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 2025 (term 1 of 12)}\\ 2. Complete all of your course requirements?\\ %\hspace{5mm}{Winter 2026 (term 2 of 12)}\\ 3. Give your supervisor a complete first draft of your PhD thesis?\\ %\hspace{5mm}{Winter 2029(term 11 of 12)}\\ 4. Complete your Lecturing requirement?\\ %\hspace{5mm}{Winter 2026 (term 2 of 12)}\\ 5. Defend your PhD thesis?\\ %\hspace{5mm}{Spring 2029 (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! %The content of the Statement of Research Progress should follow the guidelines below, depending on your year in the program. % %End of Year 0: Students should include a short plan for a research paper they will write under the supervision of their advisor, which should be similar in length and scope to the final paper of a Research Paper MMath degree (approximately 30 pages). This paper should be completed by the end of Spring term of Year 0 (typically in late August). %End of Year 1: Students should include a specific plan for what topic they expect their thesis to be on and what materials they plan to study to prepare for that research. %End of Year 2: Students should include a specific research plan for the topic of their thesis and what they hope to prove. They should give a 30 minute presentation to their committee about their research plan as part of the annual report process. Ideally, this would be an in person presentation, but online or hybrid presentations might be necessary due to logistical concerns. The presentation should be completed in time for the committee to make comments on the student's annual report (that is, before June 1). %End of Year 3: Students should include a detailed report on the progress they have made thus far toward completing original research to be incorporated into their thesis. \end{document}