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To become a Doctoral Candidate and register for Dissertation hours, students must take and pass an Advanced Topics (Pure, Fin, Bio) or Candidacy (App/Comp) Exam after the students first pass their area-requirement of passed/exempted qualifiers. The Candidacy Exam are normally NOT SCHEDULED FOR SUMMER TERMS (although make-ups for Spring term registrations, as well as exams in late August before classes start, are possible).
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Completing your Qualification for Doctoral Candidacy: Candidacy Exam Eligibility and Registration Procedures. If you began your FSU graduate work with a BS (but no MS), you are normally not eligible to take the Candidacy Exam until early in the 3rd academic year (fifth semester). You must first complete the requirements for our FSU MS degree in your area (although you do not have to be actually awarded the MS). If you already had an MS, Dr. Case will be glad to work with your Major Professor and Area Director as to when (after exemption or passing of basic qualifiers) you are eligible.
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NOTE CAREFULLY: EACH SEMESTER BEGINNING YEAR 2; YOU NEED TO PASS YOUR CANDIDACY EXAM AND BECOME A DOCTORAL CANDIDATE!!!
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You have passed or exempted the qualifiers for your area. And you have determined a MajProf (or Co-Directors, see above section). Great! You have a good start but have to be sure you maintain "timely progress": you are funded for at most 6 academic years and development of a research problem which will support description in a dissertation is now your priority concern. In PURE, BIO and FIN, it is great to do your ATE in the Fall of Year 3, but if your MajProf is satisfied with your progress then the Spring of Year 3 is OK. All ACM students should pass the Candidacy Exam in Fall Year 3. After Year 2, courses are no longer your priority. Your MajProf will guide you in developing a "focus/topic" for your Candidacy Exam.
There will be courses in which you are interested or your MajProf urges. And there is a departmental minor requirement which seeks to enhance breadth (see Graduate Bulletin). Sitting in (usually registered S/U) 1 well-chosen course is good! 2 are OK iff you and your MajProf agree that you must not miss either of those courses this time. (See Ms. Diaguila about S/Us.) Note that to assure that the funding we provide for you to finish a PhD actually accomplishes that, your timely progress precludes taking 3 courses in any semester after Year 2. (Exceptions only after discussion between the MajProf, the Director, and the Grad Chair.)
(1) Decide on a general "working topic" for your ATE with your MajProf .
(2) Decide what course(s) you should be in.
(3) Ask Ms. Diaguila to make a section of MAT 6908, DIS, for you with your MajProf (Co-Directors) as Instructor and give you the CRN; register 2 to 4 hours for it to have time to work on your ATE. (Note: As instructed in the FSU Graduate Bulletin, MS. DIAGUILA WILL CONVERT THESE RETROACTIVELY TO DISSERTATION IF/WHEN YOU PASS YOUR CANDIDACY EXAM.)
(4) Register for a research seminar (MAT 6939) in your Area.
(5) Ask your Director for advice if, adding Colloquium and/or Graduate Student Seminar, you still lack hours for your required registration.
SCHEDULE EXAMPLES:
if you are taking 1 S/U Course: (Course = 3) + (Seminar = 1) + (MAT 6908 = 4). Total 8 hrs. To fill up to 9 or 12 (depending on whether you are FL resident) add 5933/6933 hours above from your Director and/or Case:
LOAD if you REALLY want 2 S/U courses: (Courses = 6) + (Seminar =
1) + (MAT 6908 = for 2 to 4). Total is then 9 or 11. If FL resident or Fellow, to fill up to 12 can add an hour from (4) above.
ABOUT A MONTH BEFORE YOUR PROJECTED DATE FOR YOUR CANDIDACY EXAM:
Your committee should be be set up. Your Major Professor
(Co-Directors) will ask the department Chair to officially appoint a suitable committee after discussing the committee members with you. (Generally 3 to 5 members from the department and 1 or 2 outside.)
Anytime after this, you can go ahead and get the Elibility Form for Candidacy Exam signed by MajProf (or Co-Directors), Area Director, and Dr. Case so there is plenty of time to check eligibility requirements; give to Ms. Diaguila (see Ms. Diaguila's online forms
http://www.math.fsu.edu/~diaguila/Grad_forms.htm)
3 WEEKS BEFORE YOU HOPE TO PRESENT:
It is recommended you give your committee a written presentation (this is required for FIN and BIO.)
Arrange a date agreeable to your entire committee and schedule a room with the Office Manager: the conference room 204B can be used for this purpose when available but a larger room is nice for ATEs.
1 WEEK AHEAD:
If you have not already, get the "CANDIDACY EXAM FORM" signed — see above, and give to the advisor.
A FEW DAYS BEFORE...
The advisor (now having the signed Eligibility form from student) will give you the form(s) which faculty committee members must sign after Exam.
AFTER THE EXAM, PRESUMING GOOD NEWS YES!!!: give signed form(s) to the advisor; who will ask the Chair to sign your Doctoral Candidacy admission form and will complete necessary Drop/Adds. If there are additional forms for your MajProf to sign the advisor will notify her/him.
See the Graduate Bulletin (http://registrar.fsu.edu/bulletin/grad/info/grad_degree.htm) under Preliminary Examination (2007-2009 Edition, p. 54).
This is a complicated procedure, but if you follow the above steps it will be easier in the long run. Remember that you cannot register for any Dissertation Hour Credits at the beginning of the semester in which you are going to do Candidacy Exam — that must be fixed retroactively for you after you pass the exam and the Chair has signed your Candidacy.
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bac August 2008
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Applied/Computational Mathematics
Interdisciplinary Mathematics
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FSU Graduate Bulletin: Mathematics Department
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Last modified: 24 October 2008
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