graduate program sept 26, 2008, laszlo mihaly. ta salaries 2002$14,000 2003$14,000 2004$14,500 2005...
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Graduate ProgramSept 26, 2008, Laszlo Mihaly
TA salaries
2002 $14,0002003 $14,0002004 $14,5002005 $14,500 2006 $15,000 2007 $15,700 2008 $16,5002009 $17,300 (proposed)
Second-year students get $500 more.We offer an additional $4,000 summer salary (not guaranteed). On path for being competitive with peer schools.
Implication to research stipends: 2008: $16,500+$500+$4000+$500=$21,500 (minimum)
New initiativesNSLS II: operational in 2015. NSLS II will need (possibly) ~60 mid-level technical support personnel.
- New course approved: PHY 518 “Applications of Synchrotron Radiation”. Jacobsen, Kao (BNL), Mihaly, Stephens- Expansion of the MSI program: NSLS is willing to provide fellowships. (Kao, Metcalf, Mihaly)
CASE: Center for Accelerator Science and Education, a joint venture between BNL and Stony Brook. (Grannis, Hemmick, Lee, Marx ...)
- new measurements to the Grad. Lab. in preparation- existing PHY 684, “Accelerator Physics” course- added “Accelerator Physics” to PHY 599- added “Synchrotron Radiation” to PHY 598
Course enrollments
Tell students to register to your course. Allow auditing only if there is a very good reason for it.
TA and RA support – new trend??
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2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
2nd year TA
1st year TA
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2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
3rd year RA
2nd year RA
Students picked up by research
and
supported as TAs. Note: We get 42 TA lines, but we need a minimum of 49TAs
Extra TAs paid from tuition return
Tuition return~$70,000 in 2007-2008~$105,000 in 2008-2009
Summary: University pays ~$17,000 for 42 TAs The rest of the money can be spent on graduate
education at the discretion of the Department, but there are not many choices – pay TAs.
This year we have absolutely no funds left for helping in “emergency situations”.
Research expenditures in P&A
The big question: do we need to reduce the size of the graduate program?
WEB page for PhD advisors
http://graduate.physics.sunysb.edu/faq/advisors.html
Topics:Summer employment students Quick budget help International students Students in trouble Brookhaven, Cold Spring Harbor and other
Departments
12-month RA salaries
2007-2008
2006-2007
Implication to research stipends: 2007: $15,700+$500+$4000+$500=$20,700 (minimum)
Further increase is planned in 2009.
Registration to courses
Enrollment to graduate courses