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
TBA
Speaker: Amit Priyadarshi
10:10 AM
Lecture 6
Differential
Equations
Speaker: Jian Song
10:10 AM
Student Research Glimpse #5
TBA
Speaker: Dan Staley
11:30 AM Lecture 2
The Inverse and Implicit
Function Theorems
Speaker: Michael Vogelius
11:30 AM
Student Research Glimpse #3
TBA
Speaker: Wesley Pegden
11:30 AM
Lecture 9
Integral Transforms
Speaker: Steve Miller
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
 12:30-2:00 PM
Lunch discussion with continuing graduate 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!
and/or

Aerobie)

2:00-3:30 PM
Administrative
stuff		 2:00 PM
Lecture 3
Matrix Normal Forms
Speaker: Eric Carlen
2:00 PM
Four-square(?) Mens sana in
   corpore sano
Organizer: Sara Blight
3:15 PM
Student Research Glimpse #2
TBA
Speaker: Jin Wang
3:15 PM
Student Research Glimpse #4
TBA
Speaker: Debajyoti Nandi
3:30-4:30 PM
Our computers
& software (Hill 425)
4:30-5:15 Relax 4:30 PM Lecture 4
The Axiom of Choice
Speaker: Simon Thomas
4:30 PM
Lecture 7
Multilinear algebra
Speaker: Robert Wilson
5:15 Aerobie
Party
To be arranged
Free time

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.