Integration Workshop

Goals

Each year in August, the department holds a workshop to integrate incoming graduate students into the program.  This year the workshop will be August 5-9, 2011. The goals are to:

• prepare students for core classes by getting them to think about undergrad material from a graduate point of view;
• establish an esprit de corps among the students;
• acquaint students with a few faculty and senior grad students.

Documents:

• Schedule
• What every incoming student is expected to know
• Lecture series and exercises: (Copies will be provided at the workshop.)
  
  • Topology notes  [tex]
  • Topology problems  [tex]
  • Analysis notes  [tex]
  • Analysis problems  [tex]
  • Linear algebra notes [tex]
  • Linear algebra problems [tex]
• Project descriptions

Participants:

• Incoming students
  • Michael Chou
  • Jonathan Edwards
  • Hyereem Lee
  • Ding Ma
  • Andrew MacLaughlin
  • Stephen Trefethen
  • Shuhui Shi
  • Liang Wu
• Senior graduate student
  
  • Enrique Acosta
  • Matthew Bush
  • Umar Islambekov
  • Matthew Johnson
  • Aleksandar Petrov
  • Chol Park (part-time)
  • Amanda Schaeffer Fry (part-time)
• Faculty
  
  • Bryden Cais
  • Tom Kennedy
  • Joe Watkins

Previous Integration Workshops

• Integration Workshop, August 2010
• Integration Workshop, August 2009
• Integration Workshop, August 2008
• Integration Workshop, August 2007
• Integration Workshop, August 2006
• Integration Workshop, August 2005
• Integration Workshop, August 2004
• Integration Workshop, August 2003