IAP 2006 18.095 Course Page
Mathematics Lecture Series

18.095
Mathematics Lecture Series
Alan Edelman
Pre-register on WebSIS and attend first class.
Listeners welcome at individual sessions (series)
Prereq: 18.01
Level: U 6 units Graded P/D/F Can be repeated for credit   

Ten lectures by mathematics faculty members on interesting topics from both classical and modern mathematics. All lectures accessible to students with calculus background and an interest in mathematics. At each lecture, reading and exercises are assigned. Students prepare these for discussion in a weekly problem session.
Students taking 18.095 for credit are expected to attend regularly and to do problem sets. Recitation Thursday at 10:30 or 1:00.
Contact: Alan Edelman, 2-343, x3-7770, edelman@math.mit.edu

Teaching Asistants & Recitation Info:

 Mustafa Sabri Kilic: room 2-487, mskilic@mit.edu
Christopher Nicholes Kottke: room 2-091, ckottke@mit.edu

Recitations will be held in rooms 2-142 and 2-146 at 10:30AM-12N, and they will be held in rooms 2-146, and 2-147 at 1:00PM-2:30PM.

Office hours:
Monday-Wednesday-Friday 10:30-12 by Chris in room 2-091
Thurdays 2:30-4pm by Sabri in room 2-487

IMPORTANT: In order to avoid piling up in the afternoon recitations, we are asking students with last names starting with A-L to come to morning sessions. If your last name does not start with A-L, but you want to come to morning recitaitons, you're more than welcome to do so. Please tell us if you cannot make it in the morning, and your last name starts with A-L.

Homeworks and Grading Policy

 Homeworks assigned until Friday (friday included) will be due the next Friday.
The homework given out on Monday will not be collected, as it contains material not covered during the lecture. Instead, there will be another set of problems distributed on Wednesday.
Late homeworks are not accepted unless there is a valid excuse.
The Grades will be assigned based on the performance on the homeworks. There will be no exams. The problem sets and/or lecture notes are available at the following links.

Problem Set 1 Unfortunately, the solutions are not available.
Lecture 2 Notes and Problem Set 2 Correction:In problem 3, Both integrals should have limit from 0 to pi. Solutions to PS2
Lecture 3 Notes and Problem Set 3 Solutions to PS3
Note: All these three problem sets were due Friday, Jan 20th, 2006.

Problem Set 4 Due Friday, 27th, 2006.
Lecture5 notes and HW problems Due Friday,27th, 2006.
Lecture 6 slides"Problem Set 6 Due Friday, Feb 3rd, 2006.
Lecture 7 notes & homework are available from Chris (also distributed in class)(due Friday, Feb 3rd, 2006)
Lecture 8 notes+ homework problems The official homework problems are only 1-3, although you can solve the remaining ones for extra credit.
Problem Sets 6-7-8 are due on Friday, February 3, 2006.
Lecture slides& Homework problems for lecture 9 Due Tuesday, February 7, 2006.

Lectures

 It's a Matter of Degree
Haynes Miller
Mon Jan 9, 01-02:30pm, 2-190
Induced Electro-osmosis
Martin Bazant
Wed Jan 11, 01-02:30pm, 2-190
Fast Fourier Transforms
Steven Johnson
Fri Jan 13, 01-02:30pm, 2-190
Counting Primes
David Vogan
Wed Jan 18, 01-02:30pm, 2-190
Lie Groups and Differential Equations
Sigurdur Helgason
Fri Jan 20, 01-03:30pm, 2-190
Numerical Methods for Random Matrices
Per-Olof Persson
Mon Jan 23, 01-02:30pm, 2-190
Logic as Mathematics
Hartley Rogers
Wed Jan 25, 01-02:30pm, 2-190
Primality Testing Made Simple
Kiran Kedlaya
Fri Jan 27, 01-02:30pm, 2-190
Elliptic Functions
Pavel Etingof
Mon Jan 30, 01-02:30pm, 2-190
The Homotopy Groups of Spheres: A Guided Tour
Mark Behrens
Wed Feb 1, 01-02:30pm, 2-190