Dear Postgraduate Colleagues, Following my conversations with many of you, this email aims at collecting expressions of interest in developing our own Postgraduate Society, within the School of Mathematics and Statistics. This is your time to make a difference and help improve our postgraduate experience! As we all know, postgraduate study can be really stressful, so it is our duty to help each other to get through in the best way. The Postgraduate Society will provide us with tools to improve our community, in very simple but meaningful ways: - appoint students with specific roles, serving as points of contact for information regarding teaching, research, funding, emotional distress, etc.; - organise social events and opportunities to meet our peers: BBQ, trivia night, pub, etc.; - continue running the schoolâs postgraduate seminar -- MaPSS; - set up a web-page with up to date news about events, meetings, conferences, talks, announcements and any other important information; This is a substantial project which can make the difference for the life of many, but it needs as much help as possible! If you like this idea and are ready to provide even the smallest help, please click on the link below and learn more about what the Society has to offer to you and what you can do to help us. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfWL4zYS78tdJDsytg3YKEt3yNK1dSdVmG-P2N8F_GibFL7Zg/viewform?usp=sf_link It does not matter if you are in your first year or last year, every small contribution is needed. Even an expression of interest in having this society, without commitment to any major role is important! It is fundamental for everyone to understand that this project will NOT go through unless enough expressions of interest are collected. This is our time to be better! Cheers, MaPSS Organisers =============================== MaPSS web: http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/SemConf/mapss.html Contacts: Alex Casella alex.casella@sydney.edu.au Adrianne Jenner A.Jenner@maths.usyd.edu.au Dominic Tate D.Tate@maths.usyd.edu.au ===============================