II. Advisor and Plan of Study

Each entering graduate student will be assigned an advisor to assist in the selection of a graduate program and registration for courses. The student will be expected in subsequent semesters to have this advisor sign registration forms and to give guidance in the program, unless, by mutual consent, another advisor is suggested to the Graduate Office. The list of course offerings should be consulted in planning a program since some courses are offered only once a year or less.

Each degree program requires that a plan of study be submitted and approved by an advisory committee in the Department of Mathematics and by the Graduate School. A student in a Ph.D. program who has passed the Advanced Topics Examination (see section IV.(C)) will arrange for a new advisory committee of three or four faculty members, representative of the student's major area of interest. The chair will be the student's thesis advisor. A student must be registered as a candidate in the semester in which the degree is expected.