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 |
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| 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 |