A mini-conference for entering graduate students

All lectures will be in Hill 705. The food
will be available in the lounge, Hill 703.

This program is presented by faculty and current graduate students to provide a review and fill in gaps in some background expected in standard courses, and to get an idea of the research being done by current students for their dissertations. It is also an opportunity for new students to meet each other and to get acquainted with some continuing graduate students and faculty members. All entering Ph.D. Students are strongly encouraged to attend.

  Thursday  
August 30		   Friday  
August 31		   Saturday  
September 1		   Sunday  
September 2		   Monday  
September 3		   Tuesday  
September 4
Zzz Zzz 8:30-9 AM
Breakfast!		 8:30-9 AM
Breakfast!		 8:30-9 AM
Breakfast!		 Official Start
of Semester
9AM - Noon
Written Quals I

The exam will be
given in Hill 425.

 9AM - Noon
Written Quals II

The exam will be
given in Hill 425.

 9:00 AM
Lecture 1
Metric Spaces and
Elementary Topology
Eugene Speer
9:00 AM Lecture 5
Differential
Equations
Professor Mischaikow
9:00 AM
Lecture 8
The Classical Groups
Jerry Tunnell

Classes begin!
10:10 AM
Student Research Glimpse #1
Mathematical Biology
Liming Wang
10:10 AM
Lecture 6
Manifolds
Feng Luo
10:10 AM
Student Research Glimpse #5
Hyperbolic PDEs in
Mathematical Physics
Jared Speck
11:30 AM Lecture 2
The Inverse
Function Theorem
Zheng-Chao Han
11:30 AM
Student Research Glimpse #3
Hyperbolic surfaces
Ren Guo
11:30 AM
Lecture 9
Transforms
J. Beck
12PM - 5PM
Eat; Move in;
Relax or
get ID card.
Advance to GO. 		12:00-12:30 Relax
12:30-2:00 PM
Math Department
Welcome Lunch
12:30-2:00 PM
Lunch
Relax.    Relax!    Relax... 		12:30 -
Free time
(e.g., Lunch; Hike
a beautiful and very l-o-n-g
(33.6 miles/54.55 km) park
begins near Busch campus.
Take a walk!
and/or

Aerobie)

2:00-3:30 PM
Administrative
stuff		 2:00 PM
Lecture 3
Linear Algebra
Vladimir Retakh
2:00 PM
Four-square(?) Mens sana in
   corpore sano
Paul Ellis
3:15 PM
Student Research Glimpse #2
Experimental Math
on Ramsey Theory
Thotsaporn Thanatipanonda
3:15 PM
Student Research Glimpse #4
Graded dimensions and
generating functions
Colleen Duffy
3:30-4:30 PM
Our computers
& software
4:30-5:15 Relax 4:30 PM Lecture 4
The Axiom of Choice
Simon Thomas
4:30 PM
Lecture 7
Bilinear Forms
Siddhartha Sahi
5:15 Aerobie
7:30 PM: Dinner in
New Brunswick
Party
To be arranged
Free time

Details of IMR 2007 activities


Lectures will give simple examples and will stress the foundational importance of the topics. Connections among areas of mathematics and applications will be emphasized whenever possible. The presentations will be neither too technical nor too rapid. We believe that all of the lectures will be useful to all of the students. "Glimpses" will be given by graduate students of their work in some prominent research areas of the department. We also hope students will enjoy the recreational opportunites provided.

Who are the entering math graduate students?