AGENDA
- Call to Order
- Chair's Remarks
- Announcements
- Committee Reports
- Undergraduate Program - Thomas
- New Business
- Executive Session
- Adjournment
MINUTES
The regular meeting of the faculty of the Department of Mathematics was held in PDL C-38 at 3:30pm PST, April 1, 2025. Max Lieblich, Chair, presided over the meeting. Rose Choi was the recording secretary.
Chair's Remarks
Looking towards fiscal year 2026, the department can viably fund up to 70 PhD students as the College is cutting our budget by 5%. We need to prepare the graduate students for the decrease in available funding, especially those continuing past their fifth year.
Announcements
Jarod Alper has started a Math AI lab.
Corrine Yap will be giving a combinatorics seminar but also present her one-woman play Uniform Convergence. Details are on our website.
The department’s new IG account has been successfully advertising our various programs, special topics classes, and events. You can send them items for posting to instagram@math.washington.edu.
Two of our undergraduate majors received Honorable Mentions in the AMS poetry contest: Joseph Wang and Joeph Rafael. You can read their poems on our website.
Jenni Taggart created a Math Instructor Guide with lots of useful resources. Jenni also serves as our Disability Resources for Students coordinator.
UW-IT has created a UW Math group in Canvas Commons where we can share our courses with members of our own department. If you are interested in sharing your Canvas course to the department or if you are interested in accessing shared materials, first make sure that you’ve visited Canvas Commons at least once. (From anywhere in Canvas, you should see the "Commons" icon in the main Canvas menu.) Once you’ve done that, email Jenni Taggart for access.
Committee Reports
The Undergraduate Program Committee proposed the following:
- Remove MATH 126 as a prerequisite for MATH 208
- Revise and update the BA Teacher Prep degree to align with requirements of similar institutions
A motion was made to vote on both items via unanimous consent. The motion was seconded, the vote held, and passed.
All of our 200-, 300-, and 400-level classes have gone up from 3 to 4 credits.
There are new descriptions for almost all of our 400-level classes (MATH 491 is being fully revamped).
UG course assistants are now being assigned to 200-level classes. Please encourage your strongest students to apply. Questions can be fielded by Zhixu Su.
ADJOURNMENT
There being no new business, the meeting passed into executive session at 4:27pm.