Integration Workshop 2011 schedule
Dates
Friday, August 5 through Tuesday, August 9, 2011.
Organization
The workshop will have three sessions each day (9-12, 1-4, and 4:30-7:30) with the evening session on the last day replaced by a party. Sessions will begin with about one hour of lecture and then there will be about 90 minutes for problem solving and discussion and 30 minutes for student reports. The lectures will be organized into three series on the core topics of linear algebra, analysis, and topology, with content based on a document called What every incoming student is expected to know. There will be problem sets corresponding to each lecture series and significant projects in which groups of students will learn some new mathematics and present it in a 1-hour lecture at the end of the workshop. There will also be a couple of sessions on practical matters like students' trajectory through the program and various opportunities.
The lecturers and topics are:
- Joe Watkins:
- Analysis
- Tom Kennedy:
- Topology
- Bryden Cais :
- Linear Algebra
Several senior grad students will be on hand to assist. They are: Enrique Acosta, Matt Bush, Umar Islambekov, Matt Johnson, Aleks Petrov. In addition Amanda Schaeffer Fry and Chol Park have graciously offered to contribute some of their time to the workshop.
Schedule (subject to revision)
Distribution of name tags and introductions, etc. will start at 8:30 on Friday. There will be coffee and some food every day at 8:30. All lectures will take place in Math 401N.
| Fri | Sat | Sun | Mon | Tue | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00–12:00 | Calculus | Calculus | Linear Algebra | Topology | Projects |
| 1:00–4:00 | Topology | Topology | Calculus |
Linear Algebra |
Presentations |
| 4:30–7:30 | Linear Algebra | Projects | Projects | Projects |
The first hour of the Sunday evening session will be an overview of the graduate program - advice on how to succeed, degree requirements, funding, etc.