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Welcome Week

Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science Departmental Induction 2025

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Welcome to our School

Come and find out more about your course, meet key members of staff and meet the people you’re going to be studying with.

We are looking forward to welcoming you to our department.

Joint-honours degrees

Studying more than one subject? If you're studying a joint degree, you should access key support through your home department. If you're not sure which is your home department, you can find out on MyEssex.

First Year Undergraduates

Wednesday 2nd October 2024

Time	Event	Location
10.00am - 10.05am	Welcome from the Head of School, Professor Spyros Vrontos	STEM 3.1
10.05am - 10.35am	Introduction to the School: Undergraduate Director (including intro from Professional Services team)	STEM 3.1
10.35am - 10.40am	Brief introduction from our Study Support Manager	STEM 3.1
10.40am - 10.50am	Introduction to Women in STEM (WiSTEM) and our Maths & Actuarial Science societies	STEM 3.1
10.50am - 11.00am	Students’ Union representative talk	STEM 3.1
11.00am - 11.20am	Brief talks from: Library Careers Services Residence Life	STEM 3.1
11.20am - 11.50am	Course specific briefing and activities led by course directors	STEM 4.1 and 4.2+B
12.00pm - 1:00pm	Lunch and Meet your Personal Tutor	STEM 3.1

Second and final year returning undergraduates

Wednesday 9th October 2024

Time	Event	Location
2.00pm - 2.30pm	Welcome Back from the Undergraduate Director	LTB 9
2.30pm - 2.35pm	Brief talk from the Library Services Team	LTB 9
2.35pm - 2.40pm	Brief talk from Careers Services	LTB 9
2.40pm - 3.30pm	Meeting with your Personal Tutors, including coffee and cake	LTB 9
3.30pm - 4.00pm	Q&A for second year direct entrants from our Undergraduate Director	LTB 9

Postgraduate Taught

Friday 4th October 2024

Time	Event	Location
11.00am -11.05am	Welcome from the Head of School, Professor Spyros Vrontos	LTB 2
11.05am - 11.35am	Induction to the School by the Postgraduate Taught Director (including an introduction from our Professional Services Team)	LTB 2
11.35am - 11.45am	Introduction to Women in STEM (WiSTEM) and our Maths society	LTB 2
11.45am - 11.50am	Brief talk from Residence Life	LTB 2
11.50am - 12.00pm	Students’ Union representative talk	LTB 2
12.00pm - 1.00pm	Course specific briefings: Applied Data Science and Data Science and its Applications Data Science and Data Science with Professional Placement All other MSc courses	5N.3.2, 5N.3.7 and 5N.3.9

Postgraduate Research

Thursday 3rd October 2024

Time	Event	Location
10.00am - 1.15pm	University PGR Welcome Conference	Ivor Crewe Lecture Hall B
1.15pm - 1.45pm	Lunch	Ivor Crewe Lecture Hall B
2.00pm - 3.00pm	School Welcome and Induction and Tour	Room 3.318
3.00pm - 4.00pm	Coffee and Biscuits (meet your supervisor and our current PhD students)	STEM 5.1