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Advising & Forms

Information for prospective and current undergraduate students in Applied Mathematics

Advising Programs Office

This office is charged with coordinating, supporting, and facilitating academic advising programs for all undergraduates and, as such, works with students, faculty, the Freshman Dean's Office, the Houses and other Harvard College and FAS offices on all aspects of pre-concentration and concentration advising.

Advising

SEAS is experimenting with a new advising structure. Each person is assigned two advisers from the board of advisers, listed below. Effort is made to give you someone with intellectual overlap with your own interests--but this is not always possible--and is not absolutely essential. What you need is someone to brainstorm your interests and to point you to the right resources to understand how to fulfill them at a high intellectual level.  The board of advisers is as follows:

2011-2012 Undergraduate Applied Mathematics Advisers

  •    Elaine Angelino (Spring)
  •    Bill Bossert (Fall)
  •    Yiling Chen
  •    Zhiming Kuang
  •    John Lai
  •    Margo Levine
  •    Danielle Li
  •    Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan
  •    Michael Mitzenmacher
  •    David Parkes (Fall)
  •    Mauricio Santilliana
  •    Eli Tziperman (Spring)
  •    Leslie Valiant
  •    Hyoseok Yi
  •    Haoqi Zhang

NOTE: If you would like to change your adviser, or would like additional advice, you can always come talk to Yiling Chen, Eli Tziperman, or Margo Levine.

Guidelines and Requirements

  • Requirements
    Official requirements for the concentration as published in the Harvard College Handbook for Student.
  • Secondary Field in Mathematical Sciences Guidelines
    The secondary field in Mathematical Sciences is jointly sponsored by the the Mathematics Department and the Applied Mathematics concentration. Students are required to take four courses in either Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, or Statistics of which at most two can be in Statistics. The Mathematics and Applied Mathematics courses must be numbered 104 or higher; Statistics courses must be numbered 110 or higher.

Plan of Study

  • Plan of Study Form

    Required form used to list which course will satisfy concentration requirements. It must be submitted once the concentration is declared and an adviser is assigned. It requires the approval of the concentration adviser and the Director of Undergraduate Studies, Professor Yiling Chen (fall), Professor Eli Tziperman (spring), or the Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies, Dr. Margo Levine.  This form is used to check that students are on track to complete their concentration requirements and should be updated each spring. Seniors should submit a new plan shortly after the beginning of their fall term (to determine honors for graduating seniors).  To submit a new plan of study, use the new online plan of study tool: http://studyplan.seas.harvard.edu/ug/.  We’re still working out some of the kinks, so if you try this and have problems, please let us know so we can make the appropriate changes. 

Petition Form

Related Information

Advising Contacts

Margo Levine
Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies, Applied Mathematics
Pierce Hall 226

Yiling Chen
Director of Undergraduate Studies (Fall)
Maxwell Dworkin 339

Eli Tziperman
Director of Undergraduate Studies (Spring)
Geological Museum 456

Students interested in pursuing a secondary field in Mathematical Sciences should contact one of the Directors of Undergraduate Studies or Peter Kronheimer in the Math Department.
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