WOMP 2014

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.

Purple events are mandatory or informational. Come to them.
Green events are math talks meant to refresh your memory and 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
Monday Sept. 15	10am: Welcome and Tour of Hyde Park Meet in Eckhart 206.	1pm: Linear Algebra (Ian Frankel and Daniel Le) Criterion for diagonalizing a matrix Spectral theorem for normal matrices Unitary operators + Polar decomposition (KAK decomposition) Jordan + rational canonical form (using classification of modules/PIDs) Smith normal form	8pm: Game Night in the Barn Meet in the Barn (big room on the 3rd floor where Eckhart meets Ryerson) for board and card games. Sponsored by the UChicago chapter of the AWM.
Tuesday Sept. 16	10am: Multilinear Algebra and Differential Forms (Robin Walters and Bena Tshishiku) Tensor products + their universal properties Symmetric and exterior algebras Wedge product + determinants Exterior derivative + Hodge star and invariant formulations of div/curl/grad/Laplacian + naturality under pullback Cramer’s rule Stokes theorem deRham complex Lie derivative Lie’s magic formula	1pm: Forum on Life in Chicago	3pm-5:30pm: Improv Games in the Barn First years only.
Wednesday Sept. 17	10am: Covering Spaces and the Fundamental Group (Subhadip Chowdhury and Nick Salter) Van Kampen to compute fundamental groups Quotient spaces + quotients by groups (esp. deck groups) Computing fundamental groups from a cell decomposition Galois correspondence Lifting criteria.	1pm: Galois Theory (Sean Howe) Eisenstein + other irreducibility criteria Galois correspondence Computing explicit Galois groups for polynomials Lifting criteria. 3pm: Finite Representation Theory (Kevin Casto) Maschke’s Theorem Orthogonality of characters Computing character tables	6pm: Dinner at Medici For more information, see the Medici website and a map. Meet in the first year office at 5:45pm, or at the restaurant at 6pm.
Thursday Sept. 18	10am: Commutative Algebra (Jonathan Wang) Classification of modules over PIDs Chinese Remainder Theorem Localization Going up/going down Affine/projective varieties + many examples Nullstellensatz 11am: Number Theory (Preston Wake) Dedekind domains & rings of integers Class number	1pm: Trip to Art Institute of Chicago Meet at the #6 bus stop at 55th and S. Hyde Park Blvd. Admission is free with UChicago student ID. Bus fare is $2.25 each way if you pay cash. See the museum website for more information.
Friday Sept. 19	10am: Measure Theory (Rachel Vishnepolsky and Jacob Perlman) Sigma-algebras and measures Axioms of conditional expectation and statement of Radon-Nikodym Fubini L^p spaces Random variables and statement of central limit theorem	1pm: Complex Analysis (Yiwen Zhou) Holomorphic and meromorphic functions Cauchy integral formula Harmonic functions Conformal maps 2pm: Categories for Working Mathematicians (Jonathan Rubin)	5pm: Bowling at Seven-Ten Lanes Meet at Seven-Ten Lanes, near 55th and Ellis. 7pm: Hyde Park Bar Crawl Starts with dinner at Seven-Ten Lanes. To participate in the bar crawl, you must have either a passport or a US state ID/driver's license, it must not be expired, and it must say that you are at least 21 years old.
Saturday Sept. 20	5pm: Fall Poker Tournament Spectacular It will be held at Math Frat 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 vegetarian and non-vegetarian dinner for all those interested. Please bring a little cash for food if you want it.
Sunday Sept. 21	Day off
Week 2
Day	Morning	Afternoon	Evening
Monday Sept. 22	10am: Real Analysis (Max Engelstein) Taylor series with remainder Lagrange multipliers Arzela-ascoli Bounded variation + a.e. differentiability 11am: Fourier Series and Hilbert Spaces (Daniel Campos-Salas)	1pm: Research Talks Round 1 Robin Walters (Advisor: Victor Ginzburg) Bobby Wilson (Advisor: Wilhelm Schlag) Simion Filip (Advisor: Alex Eskin) Jacob Perlman (Advisor: Greg Lawler)	8pm: Bonfire at the Point Meet at Promontory Point.
Tuesday Sept. 23	11:20am: Graduate Orientation Begins on the main quad with a bagpipe-led procession to Rockefeller Chapel.	1pm: Curvature of Curves and Gaussian Curvature of Surfaces (Wouter van Limbeek) 2pm: Parallel Transport and Connections (Sergei Sagetov)	3pm: Graduate Student Social Hour Takes place on the Midway.
Wednesday Sept. 24	10:30am: First Year Group Photo Meet on the front steps of Eckhart. 11am-12pm: Department Orientation	1pm: Faculty Open House
Thursday Sept. 25	10am: Forum on the First-Year Program		5:30pm: Dinner in Chinatown and North Side Bar Crawl Meet at the #55 bus stop at 55th and University to take the 55 bus and then the red line to Chinatown. For those who wish to go by themselves, the address of the restaurant is 2002 S Wentworth Ave, Chicago, IL 60616 Dinner will begin at 6:30 pm
Friday Sept. 26	11am: Sleep in / Pancake Breakfast Meet at The Original Pancake House, near 47th St. and Lake Park Ave.	2pm: Research Talks Round 2 Henry Chan (Advisor: Peter May) Nick Salter (Advisor: Benson Farb) Valia Gazaki (Advisor: Kazuya Kato) Daniel Le (Advisor: Matthew Emerton)	5pm: Department Picnic Organized by the second-year class. Takes place outside Eckhart Hall.
Saturday Sept. 27	2:30pm: Walk Downtown for Dinner 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. (map). We will reach the restaurant at around 5:45pm. Anyone planning to meet us at the restaurant should phone Jonathan Rubin at 410-504-7782 by 4pm so he can make reservations.
Sunday Sept. 28	Nothing planned. Classes begin Monday!