Introduction to
Mathematics at Rutgers
IMR 2011


Mathematics Graduate Program
A mini-conference for entering graduate students
The Friday-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.
Friday
August 26
8:30 &ndash 9:00AM
Breakfast!
9:00 &ndash 10:00AM
Lecture 1
Metric Spaces & Elementary Topology
Speaker:
Professor Roger Nussbaum
Break
10:10 – 10:50AM
Student Research
Glimpse #1
TBA
Speaker: Tianling Jin
Break
11:00AM – 12:00PM
Lecture 2
Vector Spaces and Canonical Forms
Speaker:
Professor Anders Buch
12:00 – 2:30PM
Lunch with continuing grad students:
"What every Math grad student
should know"
2:30 – 3:30PM
Lecture 3
Basic Set Theorey
Speaker:
Professor Simon Thomas
Break
3:40 – 4:20PM
Student Research
Glimpse #2
TBA
Speaker:
Jay Williams
Break
4:30 – 5:30PM
Lecture 4
TBA
Speaker:
Professor Michael Saks
Free Time
Sunday
August 28
Zzz
9:30 &ndash 10:00AM
Coffee!
10:00 &ndash 11:00AM
Lecture 5
Duality and Multilinear algebra
Speaker:
Professor Goodman
Break
11:10 – 11:50PM
Student Research
Glimpse #3
TBA
Speaker:
Jorge Cantillo
12:00 – 1:00PM
Lunch
1:00 – 2:15PM
Four-square
Organizer:
Robert McRae
2:30PM – 3:30PM
Lecture 6
Manifolds
Speaker:
Professor Ferrey
Break
3:40 – 4:20PM
Student Research
Glimpse #4
TBA
Speaker:
Jinwei Yang
Break
4:30 – 5:30PM
Lecture 7
Change of variables formula for integrals
Speaker:
Professor TBA
Free Time
Monday
August 29
8:30 &ndash 9:00AM
Breakfast!
9:00 &ndash 10:00AM
Lecture 8
Bilinear Forms and Classical Groups
Speaker:
Professor Vladimir Retakh
Break
10:10 – 10:50PM
Student Research
Glimpse #5
TBA
Speaker:
Camelia Pop
Break
11:00 &ndash 12:00PM
Lecture 9
The Inverse & Implicit Fcn. Theorems
Speaker:
Professor Woodward
12:00 – 1:00PM
Lunch
1:00PM – 2:15PM
Cornhole
Organizer:
Robert DeMarco
2:30 &ndash 3:30PM
Lecture 10
Fourier Series
Speaker:
Professor Tumulka
Break
3:40 – 4:20PM
Student Research
Glimpse #6
TBA
Speaker:
Hernan Castro
Break
4:30 – 5:30PM
Aerobie
Organizer:
Thom Tyrrell
Tuesday
August 30
Zzz
9AM – Noon
Written Quals I
The exam will be given in Hill 423
Optional for entering students
12:00PM – -
Free Time
Wednesday
August 31
Zzz
9AM – Noon
Written Quals II
The exam will be given in Hill 423
Optional for entering students
12 – 12:30PM
Relax
12:30 – 2PM
Math Department
Welcome Lunch
2:30PM &ndash -
Administrative
stuff

Free Time
Wednesday
September 1