WOMP 2017

Talks and forums take place in Eckhart 206. Talks (excluding research talks and forums) will consist of a half-hour lecture followed by a half hour problem session per one hour.

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Maroon events are mandatory or informational. Come to them.

Green events are math talks meant to refresh your memory and/or give you an idea of what other people in the department do.

Orange events are for enjoyment and bonding. They are highly recommended.

Week 1

Day

Morning

Afternoon

Evening

Sunday
Sep 10

11am

Pre-WOMP brunch

Ronno Das and Eric Stubley

Check your email for location and more information!

Monday
Sep 11

10am

Welcome and Tour of Hyde Park

Ronno Das and Eric Stubley

Meet in E206.

1–3pm

Linear Algebra

Mathilde Gerbelli-Gauthier and Zana Tran

diagonalizable matrices
classification of modules over PIDs
Jordan canonical form

Tuesday
Sep 12

10am–11am

Category Theory

Minh-Tam Trinh

functors and natural transformations
adjoints
Yoneda lemma
representable functors

notes

11–12pm

Representation Theory

Claudio Gonzáles

Maschke's theorem
orthogonality of characters
computing character tables

2–4pm

Improv games in the Barn

Claudio Gonzáles

First years only

Wednesday
Sep 13

10am

Forum on Life in Chicago

Ronno Das

1–3pm

Covering Spaces and Fundamental Groups

MurphyKate Montee and Foling Zou

lifting criterion
covering actions and deck groups
Van Kampen's theorem
computing fundamental groups
Galois correspondence of covers

6pm

Dinner at Medici

Ronno Das

For more information, see the Medici website and map. Meet in the first year office at 5:45pm, or at the restaurant at 6pm.

Thursday
Sep 14

10–11am

Commutative Algebra

Owen Barrett

prime ideals
localization
affine/projective varieties
Nullstellensatz

problems and solutions

11am–Noon

Real Analysis

Stephen Cameron

Taylor series
Stone–Weierstrass theorem
Arzelà–Ascoli theorem
Bounded variation and almost everywhere differentiability

1pm

Trip to the Art Institute of Chicago

Owen Barrett

Meet at the #6 bus stop at Stony Island and 57th Drive. Admission is free with UChicago student ID. Bus fare is $2.25 each way if you pay cash, and $2 with a Ventra card. See the museum website for more information.

Friday
Sep 15

10–11am

Galois Theory

Bingjin Liu

irreducible polynomials
Galois correspondence

11am–Noon

Number Theory

Nazerke Bakytzhan

Dedekind domains and rings of integers
class number

Research talks round 1

2–4pm

Paul Apisa (advisor: Alex Eskin)
Yordanka Kovacheva (advisor: Madhav Nori)
Jeff Manning (advisor: Matthew Emerton)

5–7pm

Bowling at Seven Ten Lanes

Noah Taylor

Meet at Seven Ten Lanes, near 55th and Ellis.

7pm

Hyde Park Bar Crawl

Noah Taylor

After dinner at Seven Ten Lanes, the bar crawl starts at Jimmy's. To participate in the bar crawl, you must have a photo id with age, usually a driver's license, a passport or a US state ID. It must be valid, and it must say that you are at least 21 years old.

Saturday
Sep 16

10am–Noon

Hyde Park Farmer's Market

Eric Stubley

Meet in the first year office at 10am and bring cash if you want to buy produce and snacks!

5pm

Fall Poker Tournament Spectacular

Reid Harris

The tournament will start at 6pm. (Don't be late!) For those interested, come at 5pm for an explanation of the rules. Cheat sheets will be provided.
We will order dinner for all those interested. Please bring a little cash for food if you want it.

Week 2

Day

Morning

Afternoon

Evening

Sunday
Sep 17

Day off. Have fun!

Monday
Sep 18

9:30–11:30am

Multilinear Algebra and Differential Forms

Boming Jia and Drew Moore

exterior powers
differential forms
exterior derivative
deRham complex
integration on manifolds
Stokes' theorem

12:30–1:30pm

Functional Analysis

Xiaodong Chen

Banach spaces
Hahn–Banach theorem
L^p spaces, Hölder’s inequality

1:30–2:30pm

Hilbert Spaces

Daniel Campos

Riesz representation theorem
Parseval’s identity
Fourier series

2:30pm

Class photo

On the front steps of Eckhart Hall that lead out to the quad.

3–4pm

Department orientation with faculty

7pm

Bonfire at the Point

Santiago Chaves Aguilar and Kiho Park

Meet at Promontory Point.

Tuesday
Sep 19

9–10am

Manifolds and Differential Topology

Nir Gadish

tangent spaces and tangent bundle
inverse and implicit function theorems
regular values, submersion theorem
Sard's theorem

10–11:30am

Physical Sciences Division Welcome Breakfast

Meet in the quadrangle behind Eckhardt Research Center

11:30am

Graduate Orientation

Begins on the main quad with a bagpipe-led procession to Rockefeller Chapel. There's also lunch at 1pm. See the UChicago Grad website for more information. Register on eventbrite.

3–5pm

Graduate Student Social

From the website: "toast to the year ahead with fellow grad students on the Midway, hosted by Graduate Council"

Wednesday
Sep 20

10–11am

Complex Analysis

Brian Chung

Cauchy–Riemann equations
power series and Laurent series
Möbius transformations
Liouville's theorem
Riemann mapping theorem

Noon

Department Picnic

The department is generously organizing a picnic to welcome everyone to the new school year! On the main quad. RSVP to Andrea Rosalez.

2–5pm

Faculty Open House

Faculty and Dickson participants

Faculty	Office	Hours
Laci Babai	Ry 164	2–5
Frank Calegari	E 226	2–4
Matthew Emerton	Ry 360 F	2–4
Benson Farb	Ry 356	2–3:30
Denis Hirschfeldt	Ry 359 B	2–5
Greg Lawler	E 415	2–5
Maryanthe Malliaris	E 406	2–4
Peter May	E 314	2–5
André Neves	E 408 A	2–3
Alexander Razborov	Ry 257 E	2–5
Charles Smart	E 224	2–4
Panagiotis Souganidis	E 208 B	4–5
Dickson (postdoc)	Office	Hours
Chris Henderson	E 228	2–5
Jacek Jendrej	E 309	2–4

6pm

Board Game Night

Dylan Quintana

Meet in the first-year office for board and card games.

Thursday
Sep 21

10–11am

Measure Theory and Probability

Peter Morfe

σ-algebras and measures
Lebesgue integration
Fubini–Tonelli theorem
Radon–Nikodym theorem and conditional expectation

11am–Noon

Metrics, Connection and Curvature

Joe Chen

Gaussian curvature
Levi–Civita connection
parallel transport

Noon

Lunch with AWM

MurphyKate Montee

First years only. Meet in the first-year office (E27). Partially sponsored by the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM).

6pm

Dinner in Chinatown

Hana Jia Kong

Please RSVP here. Meet at 5:45pm at 55th and University or at 6:30pm at Little Sheep Mongolian Hot Pot, 2342 S Wentworth Ave. We will take the 55 bus and then the red line to chinatown.

8:30pm

North Side Bar Crawl

Karl Schaefer

The first bar is the Map Room at 1949 N Hoyne Ave. Meet there at 8:30pm. To participate in the bar crawl, you must have a photo id with age, usually a driver's license, a passport or a US state ID. It must be valid, and it must say that you are at least 21 years old.

Friday
Sep 22

1–3pm

Forum on the First-Year Program

Brian Chung

3–5pm

Research talks round 2

Nir Gadish (advisor: Benson Farb)
Margaret Nichols (advisor: Danny Calegari)
Ben Seeger (advisor: Panagiotis Souganidis)

5pm

Barbecue on the Quad

Nat Mayer

The second years are also generously organizing a picnic to welcome everyone to the new school year! On the main quad. Plan to stick around for the introductions and the scavenger hunt.

Saturday
Sep 23

2:30pm

Walk Downtown for Dinner

Boming Jia, Peter Morfe and Sarah Reitzes

Meet in the first-year office (or at the Point at 3pm) for a lakeside walk downtown to Giordano's Pizza at 223 W Jackson Blvd. We will reach the restaurant at around 5:45pm.

Sunday
Sep 24

Nothing planned. Classes begin Monday!