Advice from Previous Grad Students
What to expect, generic advice, and encouragement.
Preparation for the General Exam
This website was created by graduate students and is maintained by graduate students. Everything posted on this website is based on personal experience by each individual graduate student.
Please use this website as a rough guide on what to expect, and not a guarantee.
Top right corner has a menu with links to LSU's websites for the formality of the degree requirements, processes, research areas and professors, and course catalog.
Algebra
Algebra, Algebraic Geometry, Number Theory
Analysis
Analysis, Functional Analysis, Harmonic Analysis
Combinatorics
Combinatorics, Graph Theory, Matroid Theory
Control Theory and Optimization
Control Theory and Optimization
Geometry and Topology
Geometric Group Theory, Low-dimensional Topology, Contact and Simplectic Geometry
Mathematics of the Sciences
Mathematical Physics, Mathematics of Materials Sciences
Partial Differential Equations
Partial Differential Equations
Probability
Probability
Representation Theory
Representation Theory
Scientific Computing and Numerical Analysis
Scientific Computing and Numerical Analysis
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