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Introduction to Mathematics at Rutgers 2009

Introduction to
Mathematics at Rutgers
IMR 2009


Mathematics Graduate Program

A mini-conference for entering graduate students

The Saturday-Sunday-Monday lectures will be in Hill 705. Breakfast and Lunch (highlighted in green) 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.


This page is still under construction. The schedule below is tentative.



  Thursday  
August 27
  Friday  
August 28
  Saturday  
August 29
  Sunday  
August 30
  Monday  
August 31
  Tuesday  
September 1
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 423.

9AM - Noon
Written Quals II

The exam will be
given in Hill 423.

9:00 AM
Lecture 1
Metric Spaces and
Elementary Topology
Speaker: Daniel Ocone
9:00 AM Lecture 5
Manifolds
Speaker: Chris Woodward
9:00 AM
Lecture 8
The Classical Groups
Speaker: Feng Luo

Classes begin!
10:10 AM
Student Research Glimpse #1
Hausdorff Dimension of Fractal Sets
Speaker: Amit Priyadarshi
10:10 AM
Lecture 6
Differential
Equations
Speaker: Jian Song
10:10 AM
Student Research Glimpse #5
Geometric Group Theory
Speaker: Dan Staley
11:30 AM Lecture 2
The Inverse and Implicit
Function Theorems
Speaker: Michael Vogelius
11:30 AM
Student Research Glimpse #3
Playing randomly to avoid repetition: Thue games and the Local Lemma
Speaker: Wesley Pegden
11:30 AM
Lecture 9
Integral Transforms
Speaker: Steve Miller
12PM - 5PM
Eat; Move in;
Relax or
Administrative stuff
12:00-12:30 Relax
12:30-2:00 PM
Math Department
Welcome Lunch

12:30-2:00 PM
Lunch
12:30-2:00 PM
Lunch with continuing grad students: "What every math grad student should know"
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!
2:00-2:30 PM
Our computers and Software (Hill 425)
2:00 PM
Lecture 3
Matrix Normal Forms
Speaker: Eric Carlen
2:00 PM
Four-square
Organizer: Sara Blight
2:30-4:30 PM
Administrative
stuff
3:15 PM
Student Research Glimpse #2
Volatility Models in Mathematical Financee
Speaker: Jin Wang
3:15 PM
Student Research Glimpse #4
Combinatorial identities using representation theory
Speaker:
Debajyoti Nandi
4:30-5:00 Relax 4:30 PM
Lecture 4
The Axiom of Choice
Speaker: Simon Thomas
4:30 PM
Lecture 7
Multilinear algebra
Speaker: Robert Wilson
5:00 Aerobie
Free time
Free time
Free time
Party
Time and place to be announced

Details of IMR 2009 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.

List of Entering Graduate Students

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