Re: How do mathematicians know where the seminars/workshops/conferences are taking place?


"Jose Capco" <cliomseerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Feb 5, 12:25 pm, "Nick" <tulse04-ne...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Jose Capco" <cliomse...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
With respect, how can you be a math graduate student where there are no
undergraduate students - and quite likely the only math graduate student.


In Germany, you can be a PhD student in any university as long as
there is a math professor who is supervising you on your desired
field, the student can theoretically not even be enrolled in the
university while doing all these.

It is thus possible that math is not offered to the undergraduates and
yet there are both math professors and a math department in the
university (to accomodate the students in say computer science,
engineering etc. who take math courses). I am exactly in this
situation! Although I really can't call our department really a math
department .. there are like 2 or 3 professors around who do real
mathematics here. The university has a weird history, there was once
math offered here but somehow for some reasons I dont know the
university decided to drop it. Although my supervisor is very helpful
and accomodating, I don't think it will really be healthy doing
research with only him to talk to.


I thought that being a graduate student was about attending and giving
seminars - and possibly undergraduate students.

Well I suppose theoretically that should be the case. Unfortunately,
we have no such students here. Thus we need to go to another
university for a weekly seminar. I would love to be doing these, as it
may help me improve my ability to give talks and gain expereince on
attending talks. Besides, I think helping undergraduate students is
both a fullfilling and a learning experience.


Who is your supervisor (not their name)?

A math professor. He is very knowledgeable and an authority in his
field and tolerates my incapacity and lack of experience. But like I
said, he alone is not really enough for me. He isn't always around for
me, and I don't expect that from him but I do expect to have some
resources and ways to gain more experience (other than my own self
exploration and the limited amount of journals we have here, there are
surely other resources I need to discover). Id like to attend
mathematical courses and lectures (just even for my personal
fullfillment) that are not directly related to what I am doing and
broaden my perspective, and I cannot entirely rely on him.

I would have assumed that you would have taken this in to account when you
chose your place of study. Call me old-fashioned but I thought that such
exchange with colleagues was part of higher education. Otherwise why not
study at home using the Internet?

Nick


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