MAT SCI 599
Research for and Preparation of PhD Dissertation
Tutorial.
Fall 2026: 27 sections. All of them are open. The oldest of these readings was 2 hours ago.
Grades
Graded S/U, so there is no average to report.
Graded S/U: 115 records over 10 terms.
In the A range
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no letter grades in the record to count
D, F or W
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no letter grades in the record to count
Taken pass/no pass
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this course is graded S/U, not pass/no pass
The registrar's own records: Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them.
Historical grades for BALANDIN, ALEXANDER ALEXEE, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
No grade history is available for this professor in this course.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2026 |
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| HUANG, YU reviews ↗ | S/U | 19 S/U | 2 | - | - | Open, 6 seats left | |
| PEI, QIBING reviews ↗ | S/U | 96 S/U | 9 | - | - | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.
Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.
Workload and assignments
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
dibs has not read this course’s reviews, so it cannot say what kind of work it sets. That is dibs not having looked. It is not a course without papers or exams, and the reviews linked below are the answer until dibs catches up.
In Falls
Ran in 4 of the last 5 Falls. dibs has no record of it in any quarter since Fall 2024.
From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.
From the registrar's catalog
Tutorial, to be arranged. Limited to graduate materials science and engineering students. Usually taken after students have been advanced to candidacy. S/U grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 27 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Tut 1 Time TBAOpenno grade history
7 seats left. 3 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 2 Time TBAOpenno grade history
10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 3 Time TBAOpen
Carman, G.P.
no grade history10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 4 Time TBAOpen
Chang, J.P.
no grade history10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 5 Time TBAOpen
Chen, J.
no grade history9 seats left. 1 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 6 Time TBAOpen
Chen, Y.
no grade history10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 7 Time TBAOpenno grade history
5 seats left. 5 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 8 Time TBAOpen
Ghoniem, N.M.
no grade history10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 9 Time TBAOpenno grade history
8 seats left. 2 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 10 Time TBAOpen
Gupta, V.
no grade history10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 11 Time TBAOpenno grade history
7 seats left. 3 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 12 Time TBAOpenno grade history
6 seats left. 4 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 13 Time TBAOpen
Iyer, S.S.
no grade history9 seats left. 1 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 14 Time TBAOpen
Kaner, R.B.
no grade history10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 15 Time TBAOpenno grade history
9 seats left. 1 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 16 Time TBAOpen
Li, X.
no grade history10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 17 Time TBAOpenno grade history
6 seats left. 4 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 18 Time TBAOpenno grade history
10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 19 Time TBAOpen
Szymanski, N.
no grade history9 seats left. 1 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 20 Time TBAOpenno grade history
9 seats left. 1 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 21 Time TBAOpen
Sant, G.
no grade history10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 22 Time TBAOpenno grade history
10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 23 Time TBAOpen
Tolbert, S.H.
no grade history10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 24 Time TBAOpen
Wang, K.L.
no grade history10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 25 Time TBAOpenno grade history
7 seats left. 3 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 26 Time TBAOpen
Weiss, P.S.
no grade history10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 27 Time TBAOpenno grade history
10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 10 and 11 a term over 10 terms, summer excluded, most recently 10 in Fall 2024. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking MAT SCI 599 was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
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Seats over time in Fall 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it. This course runs 27 lectures; the legend under the chart picks one.
A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.
What a flat run means, and where a line starts
Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.
Tut 1 · Balandin, A.A. · 3 of 10 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, filled by 3.
Tut 2 · Banerjee, A.S. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 3 · Carman, G.P. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 4 · Chang, J.P. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 5 · Chen, J. · 1 of 10 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, filled by 1.
0 to 1 enrolled across 3 readings, +1.
Tut 6 · Chen, Y. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 7 · Dunn, B.S. · 5 of 10 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, filled by 5.
Tut 8 · Ghoniem, N.M. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 9 · Goorsky, M.S. · 2 of 10 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, filled by 2.
Tut 10 · Gupta, V. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 11 · He, X. · 3 of 10 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, filled by 3.
Tut 12 · Huang, Y. · 4 of 10 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, filled by 4.
Tut 13 · Iyer, S.S. · 1 of 10 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, filled by 1.
Tut 14 · Kaner, R.B. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 15 · Hossain, M. · 1 of 10 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, filled by 1.
Tut 16 · Li, X. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 17 · Marian, J. · 4 of 10 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, filled by 4.
Tut 18 · Mosleh, A. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 19 · Szymanski, N. · 1 of 10 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, filled by 1.
0 to 1 enrolled across 3 readings, +1.
Tut 20 · Raman, A.P. · 1 of 10 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, filled by 1.
0 to 1 enrolled across 3 readings, +1.
Tut 21 · Sant, G. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 22 · Schwalbe Koda, D. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 23 · Tolbert, S.H. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 24 · Wang, K.L. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 25 · Wang, Y. · 3 of 10 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, filled by 3.
Tut 26 · Weiss, P.S. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 27 · Yang, Y. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 of 10.
How readings and alerts work
A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.
Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.