The Graduate Student

Experience
Speaker: Ursula Trigos-Raczkowski
11/22/17
 Deciding What To Do v

Wondering what you are going to do with your

bachelors? Unsure of whether you want to continue
studying and go to graduate school or enter the
workforce?

→ Apply.
→Still not sure?
→ Apply anyways.

Applications are done through Rackham Applications to the University of Michigan’s

Graduate School. Mathematics Department, (PhD or Masters) are due
Dec 1st .
The A.I.M. M.L.B. MastersvProgram

→ A.I.M., or Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics, is the

applied branch of the mathematics department at the
University of Michigan.
→ The M.L.B. program is a masters program aimed at
creating a bridge for its participants into the PhD
program at the university.
→2 years of coursework (math and cognate)
→Applied research in a cognate field
Funding & Benefits v

→ All math graduate students receive funding of some sort.

→GSI positions
→(first years);
→GSRA positions
→(“the dream”).
Once You’ve Accepted v

→ RMF 2 week welcome program

→ Teaching workshops

Rackham Graduate School

Rackham Graduate School v
Rackham Graduate School v
Moving to Michigan v

→ Culture Shock
→ College-town
→ Living off (or on)-campus

And of course!
The cold…

Brace yourself, winter is really coming.

Downtown Ann Arbor v

→ Cuisine
→ Lots of friendly places to hang out.
→ Yearly Art Fair (very popular)

Michigan Theater in Downtown Ann Arbor

Some Pictures of Campus v

East Hall
Study Spaces v

Math Atrium: East Hall

Some Pictures of Campus v
Libraries v

Undergraduate Library (Shapiro) Hatcher Graduate Library

(UGLI)
Teaching v

Angell Hall (connected to Mason Hall A typical classroom in Mason Hall.

where most G.S.I. teaching goes on)
 My Research v

→ I work in the E.E.B. department under Dr. Annette Ostling.

→ Funding by MCubed.
→Size-Structure Population Models of Trees
→PDEs to model (novel analytical approach)
→EBT model (numerical method)
of course… v

→ The UMich squirrels!

Who could forget… v

→ Michigan Football.
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Questions?