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Dates to Remember:
- Sophomore and junior years - Look for potential thesis topics.
- End of junior year - Approach several faculty members for specific suggestions of
thesis topics.
- Summer before senior year - Read up in the fields of potential thesis topics. Try to make the decision on the topic and become familiar with
basic literature on it.
- September of the senior year - Choose your thesis
advisor. Notify the Undergraduate Studies Coordinator about your
choice. Enroll in a reading course supervised by your advisor
(optional). (See the Director of Undergraduate Studies, Peter
Kronheimer, if you have no topic
or advisor by the end of September).
- January/February of the senior year - Start actual writing!
- Last day of the Fall Reading Period - Submit a thesis plan to the Undergraduate Studies Coordinator Svetlana Alpert by 4 pm.
- March 1
 - Submit a thesis draft to your advisor for feedback and advice. Submit a draft to the Director of Undergraduate Studies also if your primary advisor is not a member of the Mathematics Department.
- First Monday after spring recess (or first Monday after
Thanksgiving for students planning to receive a March degree or if the
fall semester is their final semester) - Two copies of the thesis are
due by 4 pm in the office of the Undergraduate Studies Coordinator
Svetlana Alpert (rm. 503).
- 3rd Week of April - Contact Svetlana Alpert (svetlana@math) to find out the name of your thesis reader for arranging a thesis examination.
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