Geometry & Topology RTG

University of Notre Dame

Bridge Program

The primary goal of the Bridge Program is to give a head start to incoming students to ensure success in our first year graduate courses, irrespective of their background.

The schedule for the 2016 Bridge Program is as follows. All talks are held in 229 Hayes-Healy.
Tuesday 8/2
10:00 Introduction
10:30 Metric and topological spaces - Kyle Gannon
1:30 Category theory - Tim Campion
Wednesday 8/3
10:30 Stone-Weierstrass and Urysohn theorems - Jens Kjaer
Afternoon NSF-GRFP session
Evening Barbecue
Thursday 8/4
10:30 Chain complexes - Eric Wawerczyk
1:30 Jordan normal form - Dominic Culver
Monday 8/8
10:30 Inverse and implicit function theorems - Xiaoxiao Li
1:30 Multilinear algebra - Mark Behrens
Tuesday 8/9
10:30 Manifolds - Laura Wells
Afternoon Excursion to Warren Dunes
Wednesday 8/10
10:30 The tangent bundle - Phillip Jedlovec
Afternoon NSF-GRFP session
Evening Barbecue
Thursday 8/11
10:30 Differential forms - Gabor Szekelyhidi
1:30 Lp spaces - Rachael Avrir