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AMSC Student Council
Meeting Minutes
October 28, 2004
3:30 - 4:30 PM
MTH 1310
- Call to Order
3:36 pm
- Approvals
- Minutes (September 21,2004)
approved, with changes
- Agenda (October 28, 2004)
approved, with changes
- Welcome - Danny
Thanks to Bing for maintaining the web site and agreeing to take notes
at the meetings.
- Meeting/Committee Reports
- AMSC Graduate Committee Meeting (September 24, 2004) -
Danny
The qualification exam (ODE, probability ... ) passing rate
for AMSC students is a little dissapointing. Discussing the
threshhold. The possibility of getting funded for some
additional study groups. Business courses exams are getting
significantly number of students. Suzanne will write the
letter to poll the interested students in each exam.
- GSG Report - Suzanne/Stacey
Nothing new to report. Any news effecting AMSC and its
sutdents will be placed on the ASC web site ion the future.
- Old Business
- Proposed Amendment to the Constitution to add Treasurer
position - Danny
- Discussion, Vote, Next Steps
Chris is appointed as the treasurer. Vote for the amendment.
Motion to vote: Suzanne. Second: Stacey. In favor: 5. Against:
0.
- Becoming a GSG-registered student group - Danny
Will try to become a GSG group once the Amended Constitution
passes the vote of the AMSC student body.
- New Business
- Changes in Qualifying Exam Procedures
- Computer Science - Suzanne
New System:
Students have to take 7 courses >= 600 Level in 5 areas, with
at least 5 A's and 2 B's.
In comparison the old system is:
Students have to take 10 courses in 5 areas (with possibly 4
undergrad level courses) with at least 7 A's and 3 B's.
Solution proposed: taking 2 600 level courses with at least 1
A and 1 B from the same area.
Suzanne will make formal write-up on this issue. The goal is
to present it at the next AMSC Grad. Committee Meeting.
- Tracking procedures in other departments - Danny
We will look at this once the results of Suzanne's polls comes
back.
- AMSC Graduate Committee Meeting (November 1, 2004) - Danny
- Publishing AMSC policies and procedures
Discuss about the addition of Applied Statistics Concentration
to the AMSC program. The name of the AMSC Program has been
proposed to be "Applied Mathematics, Statistics, and
Computation" to attract student interested in statistics. The
ASC agrees that this change would detract from attracting
students interested in the "Scientific Computation".
- SC preliminary requirements
Need to clarify on the web.
- Doctoral prospectus procedure/timing
Need to clarify on the web.
- Grad school listing of SC - still includes laptop
distribution
Agree that sentence should be removed.
- ASC Graduation Conference - Danny
- Planning Committee
Everyone is on the committee. Meetings to discuss this
conference will take place outside of the regularly scheduled
ASC meetings.
- Main Speakers: AMSC Director, CSCAMM Director, past
AMSC graduates
IPST Director as well.
- Inclusion: PhD, MS, BA/BS; AMSC, Math, Stat
Agreed that the presenters should be limited to AMSC
students only. All those graduating in the current
academic year would be allowed to give a talk. It more
time is available, other AMSC students would submit
abstracts to the ASC, and the ASC would decide who would
be included.
- Funding: GSG, AMSC, Math, SIAM
Talk about funding was postponed; to be discussed at
Conference Planning Meeting. Date of meeting TBA.
- Member Business
Nothing to add.
- Adjournment
4:40 pm
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