The following is the current schedule for WOMP 2007. For a more condensed version, click here .

"A Practical Guide to Life in Hyde Park and Beyond" (pdf/ps)

Answers to practical questions about living in the University neighborhood, written by Elizabeth Csima and edited by Travis Schedler and Rachel Epstein.

Monday, Sept. 10:

• Morning : Welcome and Tour of Hyde Park
• Afternoon : Algebra I -Ian Shipman (notes) and Shawn Drenning
  Basis, dual vector spaces, dimension, linear maps, determinant, characteristic polynomial, Jordan form, rings, ideals, modules, PIDs, UFDs.

• Morning : Topology -Rachel Epstein and Damir Dzhafarov (notes)
Topology, basis, subbasis, compactness, separation axioms, product topology, metric spaces, Density, First and Second Countability, Hausdorffness, Normality, Quotient Topologies, Connectedness .
• Afternoon : Algebra II -Asaf Hadari (notes) and Travis Schedler (notes)
Classification theorem for abelian groups, classification of modules over PIDs, semisimple and nilpotent decomposition, fields, field extensions, Galois theory.
• Evening (8:00): Game night in the Barn; meet at 8:00 in the Barn (3rd floor Eckhart/Ryerson)for board and card games.

• Morning : Analysis I -Nick Longo and Ariel Barton (notes)
  Measure theory, motivation of Lebesgue integration, function spaces and Arzela-Ascoli.
• Afternoon (E206): Life in Chicago, a forum to learn about all Chicago has to offer, including a Q&A session.
• Evening (6:00): Dinner at Medici 

• Afternoon : Manifolds I -Spencer Dowdall and Ian Biringer
  Manifold, examples including S^n and RP^n, calculus in R^n, change of variables, inverse and implicit function theorems, existence and uniqueness of solutions to ODEs.
• Evening (4:30): Trip to the Art Institute. Meet at the bus stop at 55th and Hyde Park at 4:30. The museum will be free, but bring $4 for bus fare.

• Morning : Category Theory- Anna Marie Bohmann (notes) and John Lind (notes)
Category, functor, natural transformation, limits, colimits, products, coproducts, pullbacks, universal property, lots of examples.

• Afternoon : Analysis II- Francis Chung and Timur Ahkunov
  Hilbert spaces, Banach spaces, Fourier series, Fouriertransforms.

• Afternoon (1:00) : Trip Downtown, meet at busstop at 55th and S Hyde Park Blvd at 1:00.

• Morning and Afternoon (9:30-4:00): International StudentOrientation(Mandatory). At International House, in the Assembly Hall. More information here(doc).

• Morning : Algebra III -Mike Broshi (notes) and Alan Anders
  Tensor algebra, symmetric algebra, alternating powers, Hom, determinant, differential forms, exterior derivative, deRham complex.
• Afternoon (3:00-5:00) : Manifolds II- Tom Church (notes) and Nils Barth
  Tangent spaces, tangent bundle, vector bundles, Liegroups, Lie algebras, examples.

• Morning : Get university ID cards, 1100 E. 57th Street, RegensteinLibrary A-11.
• Morning (11:00-12:00, Ryerson 277) : Probability- Rob Masson (notes)
Random variables, independence, distributions and characteristic functions, convergence in probability and weak convergence.
• Afternoon : GraduateStudent Orientation: includes lunch, information sessions, and refreshments at the pub.

• Morning : AlgebraicTopology - Niles Johnson (notes) and Khalid Bou-Rabee
  Fundamental group, covering spaces, universal covering, homotopy, group actions
• Afternoon (2:30-4:30) : HomologicalAlgebra - Aaron Marcus (notes) and Keerthi Madapusi
Complexes, homology, cohomology, exact sequences, derived functors: Ext and Tor via projective resolutions.
• Evening (7:00) Dinner and drinks with incoming CS students. Meet at the Woodlawn Tap (Jimmy's), 55th and Woodlawn

• Morning (10:30, Eckhart 206): Departmental Orientation
• Noon (12:00) First Year Photos Meet at the steps in front of Eckhart
• Evening (6:00): Dinner in Chinatown followed by a barcrawl on the north side (meet at 55 and Woodlawn)

• Morning : Breakfast at Pancake House, 1517 E. Hyde ParkBlvd, by the corner of Lake Park and E Hyde Park, meet at restaurant at 10:00. Visit the website for a menu
• Afternoon (3:00, E206): Forum on how to get through the first year program
• Evening (5:00) : Departmental Picnic, outside in quad behind Eckhart.

• Afternoon (2:30): Walk Downtown, meet in first-year office for a lakeside walk downtown to Giordano's.

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