IGERT Joint Program
in Applied Mathematics and Earth & Environmental Sciences
in Applied Mathematics and Earth & Environmental Sciences
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Curriculum and Requirements
The goal of Columbia's interdepartmental IGERT Joint Program is to train Ph.D. students to a high level of proficiency in both Applied Mathematics and the Earth & Environmental Sciences. IGERT Fellows will register into any one of the five departments associated with the program, and will need to satisfy ALL the requirements for the Ph.D. program in that department. The participating departments are: Mathematics, Statistics, Applied Physics & Applied Mathematics, Earth & Environmental Sciences, and Earth & Environmental Engineering. In addition to their home departments' requirements, IGERT Fellows will need to satisfy the following IGERT-specific requirements:
• Take no fewer than four additional courses across
the traditional discipline of the department they are registered in.
In practice, Fellows in the departments of Mathematics, Statistics
and Applied Mathematics will have to take four courses in
Earth & Environmental Science or Earth & Environmental Engineering.
Similarly, four courses in mathematics or statistics will be required
for Fellows in Earth & Environmental Science and
Earth & Environmental Engineering.
• Register for and attend the weekly IGERT Joint Program Colloquium, which is meant to expose the fellows to a wide range of research topics. This Colloquium is listed as a course in Applied Mathematics, APMA E9810 Mathematical Earth Science Seminar, and is offered every term. • Attend ALL IGERT Professional Skills training workshops or approved events (usually two or three per semester) on Research Ethics, Proposal Preparation, and other topics specified by the IGERT Program Coordinator. • Give at least one talk at the IGERT Colloquium, presenting the results of their research to the other Fellows and faculty in the Joint Program. • Spend one summer as a research intern in a different research institution, national laboratory or industrial research facility. This needs to be arranged well in advance, after being discussed and planned between the Fellows and their advising teams. • Incorporate interdisciplinary subject matter and/or methods into dissertation research. • Participate in all official NSF program evaluation activities. Each Fellow will be guided by an advising team comprised of at least two members: a principal advisor in the Fellow's department, primarily responsible for ensuring the good progress of the research and training and a secondary advisor in a department across the traditional discipline boundaries (fellows in mathematics and statistics will be paired with a secondary advisor in earth & environmental science or engineering, and vice-versa). |