Special Pre-enrollment Program in Mathematics at Rutgers
Our two-week orientation program (SPP) will take place from Monday, August 18, 2025 through Friday, August 29, 2025 (no weekend days).
The Written Qualifying Exam schedule is as follows.
- Algebra - Tuesday 8/26/25, 2:00-4:00 pm - Hill 705
- Complex Analysis and Advanced Calculus - Wednesday 8/27/25, 10:00 am - 12:00 noon - Hill 482 (Computer Science room)
- Real Analysis and Elementary Point Set Topology - Thursday, 8/28/25, updated: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm - Hill 705
We have planned many "Glimpse Talks" by faculty members to give an idea of the research being done at Rutgers. This is also an opportunity for new students to meet each other and to get acquainted with faculty members and continuing graduate students. All Glimpse Talks, Review Problem Sessions, and other presentations will be held in Hill 705.
The following three orientation sessions run by the Global Services and School of Graduate Studies are very important and attendance is required. You will receive an email regarding them. The orientations will be available for viewing online at any time on or after August 1st via Canvas links provided by email or the School of Graduate Studies website: Home | Rutgers School of Graduate Studies
- 1-International Global SGS (School of Graduate Studies) Orientation – International students only (8/25, 26 and 27/2025 (8:30am-5:00pm - Jersey Mike's arena.
- 2-New Teaching Assistant Orientation – International and domestic students - two parts -
- 2A-Onsite orientation - Tuesday, August 26th, 8:30am-12:00pm in Academic Building West Wing (College Ave campus) - will include meet-and-greet, panel session, breakout sessions, etc.
- 2B-Virtual New Student orientation on Canvas (one main Canvas site for domestic and international TAs and another accompanying site for international TAs; invitations will be sent to new TAs later this summer) - will address various teaching topics, such as preparing for the first day of class, dealing with common challenges, etc.
- 3-New Student Orientation – International and domestic students
Monday, August 18, 2025
- 9:30am – 10:00am: Breakfast (provided) in Hill 703 (for New Students and Liaison Committee)
- 10:00am – 10:30am: Introduction by the Graduate Director, Fioralba Cakoni
- 11:00am – 12:00pm: Glimpse Talk by Fioralba Cakoni - Seen and Unseen: Mathematical Foundations of Inverse Problems
- 12:00pm – 1:00pm: Lunch (provided) in Hill 703 (for New Students and Liaison Committee Members, and Current Students)
- 1:00pm – 1:30pm: Meet with Technology Staff in Hill 705 - Emails, computers, etc.
- 1:30pm – 2:30pm: Glimpse Talk by James Lepowsky - Introduction to Vertex operator algebras
- 2:50pm – 3:50pm: Algebra Problem Review Session - Sumit Singh
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
- 9:20am - 10:40am: Real Analysis Problem Review Session - Anupam Nayak
- 11:00am - 12:00pm: Glimpse Talk by Yanyan Li - On incompressible stationary Navier-Stokes equations
- 2:00pm - 3:00:pm: Glimpse Talk by Kristen Hendricks - Classical and modern invariants of knots
- 3:20pm - 4:40pm: Algebra Problem Review Session - Sumit Singh
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
- 9:20am – 10:40am: Complex Analysis Problem Review Session - Ryan McGowan
- 11:00am – 12:00pm: Glimpse Talk by Alex Konorovich – Applications of Formalization
- 12:00pm-2:00pm: Lunch with New Students, Current Students, and Faculty Glimpse Speakers - Bring your own Brown Bag Lunch
- 2:00pm – 3:00pm: Glimpse Talk by Avy Soffer – What is a Soliton?
Thursday, August 21, 2025
- 9:20am – 10:40am: Real Analysis Problem Review Session - Anupam Nayak
- 11:00am – 12:00pm: Glimpse Talk by Vladimir Retakh – Noncommutative versions of some classical results and notions
- 2:00pm – 3:00pm: Glimpse Talk by Matt Young - L-functions
- 3:20pm – 4:40pm: Complex Analysis Problem Review Session - Ryan McGowan
Friday, August 22, 2025
- 9:20am – 10:20pm: Glimpse Talk by Paul Feehan - Poincaré conjecture for smooth 4-dimensional manifolds
- 11:00am - 12:00pm: Glimpse Talk by Filippo Calderoni - All you need to know about grad school, but are afraid to ask
- 12:30pm – 2:00pm: Lunch with new students, any available current students - Bring your own Brown Bag Lunch
- 2:00pm - 3:00pm: Glimpse Talk by Facundo Memoli - The space of all metric spaces: What is the Gromov-Hausdorff distance?
Monday, August 25, 2025
- 8:30am-5:00pm - International SGS Orientation - Jersey Mike's Arena, Livingston Campus - Large welcome ceremony in the morning, important mandatory sessions in the afternoon
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
- 8:30am-5:00pm - International SGS Orientation - Jersey Mike's Arena, Livingston Campus - more sessions, but not as important as Monday
- 8:30am – 12:00pm - New Teaching Assistant (TA) Orientation - College Ave Campus - Academic Building West Wing - For all new Graduate TA's will include a meet-and-greet, panel session, breakout sessions, etc.
- 2:00pm-4:00pm - Hill 705 - Algebra Written Qualifying Exams (IN PERSON)
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
- 8:30am-5:00pm - International SGS Orientation - Jersey Mike's Arena, Livingston Campus - more sessions, but not as important as Monday
- 10:00am-12:00pm - Hill 482 (Computer Science Room) - Complex Analysis Written Qualifying Exams (IN PERSON)
- 2:30pm - 3:30pm - Hill 114 - Professionalism in the Dept. - Chris Woodward - MANDATORY for New Graduate Students
- 3:30pm - 4:00pm: Mandatory New Semester Meeting – Avy Soffer, Room Hill 114
- TBA - Required Grader Orientation Meeting presented by Professor Ioanna Mavrea regarding grading.
Thursday, August 28, 2025
- Updated time - 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm: Hill 705 - Real Analysis Written Qualifying Exams (IN PERSON)
Friday, August 29, 2025
- 9:30am – 10:30am: Glimpse Talk by Mariusz Mirek –The Multilinear circle method and its consequences in pointwise ergodic theory
- 10:45am – 11:45am: Glimpse Talk by Dima Sinapova – Infinitary combinatorics
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm: Lunch with New Students, Current Students, and Faculty - Bring your own Bag Lunch
- 1:00pm – 1:30pm: Introduction to Library Resources with Mei Ling Lo - Hill 705
- 1:30pm - 2:30pm - Meeting - Liaison Committee with New Students - Q & A
- 2:30pm-3:30pm - Glimpse Talk by Shadi Tahvildar Zadeh - What is Mathematical Physics?