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I got this email from UT Austin this morning:
Hello Prospective students:
I am emailing to let you know that our Graduate Recruitment committee
is currently reviewing applications. We expect to admit about half of
you receiving this email (approximately 75 of 140 U.S. applicants).
By February 6 you will hear from me by email again if you have been
accepted.
I will also notify you about our Recruitment Weekend which will take
place Saturday, March 1. We will provide you with up to $400 to travel
expenses if you are coming in from outside Austin. You should plan to
arrive Friday, February 29 and depart March 2. We will provide you
with the hotel also.
I know other Universities have these preview weekends and I want you
to save the date for ours in your plans.
I'm applying for physics PhD, anyone else got this email? Anyone know if $400 is average for schools covering travel expenses?
Hello Prospective students:
I am emailing to let you know that our Graduate Recruitment committee
is currently reviewing applications. We expect to admit about half of
you receiving this email (approximately 75 of 140 U.S. applicants).
By February 6 you will hear from me by email again if you have been
accepted.
I will also notify you about our Recruitment Weekend which will take
place Saturday, March 1. We will provide you with up to $400 to travel
expenses if you are coming in from outside Austin. You should plan to
arrive Friday, February 29 and depart March 2. We will provide you
with the hotel also.
I know other Universities have these preview weekends and I want you
to save the date for ours in your plans.
I'm applying for physics PhD, anyone else got this email? Anyone know if $400 is average for schools covering travel expenses?
vicente, how much did they give you to travel to all those places u have been accepted to? Is it $ 400!
i have this question to every one on this forum-
Do we only get $ 400 for travel and expenses to visit all those places we get accepted to? Is this the std rate?
This means, I will never see California, I guess.
I wish I had some deep interest in BIOLOGY.
i have this question to every one on this forum-
Do we only get $ 400 for travel and expenses to visit all those places we get accepted to? Is this the std rate?
This means, I will never see California, I guess.
I wish I had some deep interest in BIOLOGY.
About UT Austin, since their website says that international decisions are made in March, but their visiting weekend is March 2, they probably aren't going to be paying at all for internationals to come visit them.
EDIT: Yay, this is my 100th post!
EDIT: Yay, this is my 100th post!
Last edited by vicente on Sun Feb 03, 2008 1:24 am, edited 1 time in total.
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I also received this email from UT.
What is the typical attire for one of these "recruitment weekends" or even for a formal interview for that matter? Formal suit and tie, business casual (whatever that means...), casual...?
This may sound like a silly question, but I've been in the military for 5 years and my wardrobe has been khaki, khaki, khaki, and sometimes white or blue.
What is the typical attire for one of these "recruitment weekends" or even for a formal interview for that matter? Formal suit and tie, business casual (whatever that means...), casual...?
This may sound like a silly question, but I've been in the military for 5 years and my wardrobe has been khaki, khaki, khaki, and sometimes white or blue.
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That's true, or at least let's convince ourselves it is until tomorrow. I'm in the same boat as you, haven't heard back from anywhere yet so I'm really nervous about the first one. I thought UT Austin would be a place I had a good chance of getting in to, so I hope it works out. What fields did you apply to / are interested in?
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Definitely theory. As far as what types of research, I actually think that I want to get into QFT and particle physics rather than straight chaos theory. I like both and would be happy working on either, I guess I'll just see what happens. So far my work has been in computational fluid dynamics and theory of dynamical systems.
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Quantum chaos is a very neat field (understatement, perhaps). I think UT Austin is an awesome place to do CFD, though. Swinney is there. I want to do theory as well, but all my work so far has been in nonlinear dynamics in networks. I think I want to keep in that direction or some similar interdisciplinary problem.
I would absolutely agree with that. Thanks to Gutzwiller and the like, Quantum Chaos allows us to discern which uncertainties are due to measurement error and which are attributable to nature herself. It's a very philosophical subject.
Good luck with the rest of your applications, I will post here whenever I get accepted or rejected from anywhere.
Good luck with the rest of your applications, I will post here whenever I get accepted or rejected from anywhere.