2020/03/30

Concerning the S semester courses (2)

To all graduate students

In light of the fast spreading SARS-CoV-2 virus, the Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences has decided on a set of measures which we hope will allow us to combine our educational mission with our commitment to your well-being, under any circumstance.

All courses (including exercise sessions etc.) offered by the Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences during the S semester will be organized as follows:

1. There will be no courses during the month of April on Komaba campus, nor on Hongo campus. For those of you who might not yet be in Tokyo, for the time being you can remain where you are.
2. However, tests or preparations for online classes might be conducted during the month of April, so please check the syllabus for any courses you intend to take carefully and regularly for changes.

• Before the registration period for classes is finished, you should check the syllabi on the UTAS system; after that period you should check for changes on the ITC-LMS system but it might be advisable to check both systems regularly.
• There might be important changes depending on the alert level of the university campuses.

Additional detail concerning the lectures:

During the first two weeks of the S semester (Monday 6 April ~ Friday 17 April) there will be no lectures held.

Be aware however that important information on individual courses might be on offer during this period, so please regularly check the syllabi for the courses you intend to take. These first two weeks will not be taken into account for any grading purposes.

During the 3rd and 4th weeks of the S semester (Monday 20 April ~ Friday 1 May) there will be no face-to-face lectures.

However, there might be online classes (or, at the very least, preparations for distance learning) during these two weeks, so please check the syllabi for your courses carefully.

Classes will resume from Thursday 7 May onwards.

However, at present, only online classes are planned.

Details concerning the actual implementation of these online classes (or the necessary preparations therefore) will be communicated separately.

Seminars or other individual instruction sessions will, in principle, be held online.

Depending on the necessary preparations however, these might already start during the first part of April during which there are no regular classes. This decision is left to each individual supervisor.

Until further notice there will no public seminars or workshops etc. at the Graduate School.

Further information will appear regularly on the website of the Graduate School. Please check this site regularly.