Department of MathematicsCollege Based Fee Plan2003-04   The student fee committee has seven members. The undergraduate students are Rebecca Russ, Cassie Fallscheer, and Kevin Brighton. The graduate student representative is Katie Hunter. The faculty representatives are Linda Patton, Matthew White, and Kent Morrison.

 

The committee met three times during winter quarter and the student representatives met with other students during the regular meetings of the Math Club and KME. The proposal was submitted to the College committee and the Dean has allocated $125,000 to the Mathematics Department for 2003-04. With an estimated $25,000 rolled over from this year the total budget will be about $150,000.

 

Item Cost
Supplemental Workshops for Math 248 (3), Math 412 (2), Math 481 (2); total of 7 workshops
$15,000
Summer Research
$32,000
Research Funds for Senior Projects
$4,000
Extra sections of upper division courses (4) to offset budget cuts
$18,976
Travel to professional meetings
$25,000
Visitors for talks
$2,000
Assigned time for probationary faculty
$13,000
Tenure track position
$40,000
Total
$149,976
Rollover from 2002-03 (est.)
$25,000
Allocation for 2003-04
$125,000

 

Supplemental workshops. This year we set up a workshop to go along with Math 248 each quarter and they were successful, so next year we propose expanding to a total of seven workshops with the additional three workshops to accompany Math 412 and Math 481. These three courses are the most difficult in the major curriculum.   Summer research. This summer we plan a full program of student research projects modeled on the REU program sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Two students will work together with an adviser over eight weeks on research questions that could potentially lead to publishable work. The amount requested will be enough for eleven students and their advisers.   Research funds for senior projects. This will help students with research expenses at an average of $100 per senior project. These expenses include software, books, and travel. Students are hampered in starting their projects quickly be waiting for interlibrary loan and not having easy access to Mathematica or Matlab. Travel expenses could cover a trip or two to UCLA or Berkeley to use their libraries.   Sections of upper division courses. This will provide for teaching the four upper division sections that would be cut because of the budget crisis.   Travel to professional meetings. This will enable students to travel to various AMS, MAA, and NCTM meetings and to augment the travel funds that are obtained by faculty through their own initiative and those available from the department discretionary account.   Visitors for talks.  The amount requested will provide expenses for outside speakers to give mathematics talks aimed at the undergraduate majors. We plan to have four of these talks during the year.   Assigned time for probationary faculty. This will enable the department to give three young faculty a one course reduction during the spring. Without some reduction in the teaching load we risk being unable to hire and to keep the best young faculty.   Tenure track position. Facing a wave of retirements the Mathematics Department needs to hire aggressively. This will help to hire an assistant professor one year earlier than we could otherwise.