Fall 2001 courses in the Rutgers-New Brunswick Math Graduate Program

Fall 2001 courses in the Rutgers-New Brunswick Math Graduate Program


Information about the table below

Warning
All of the entries are currently correct and intended to still be correct at the start of the semester. Updating will occur when the maintainer of this page is informed. Experience has shown that schedules, instructors, and topics will change. The word "Probably" is used here as a periodic reminder of this fact.

Course number / Descriptions
640 is the prefix for Mathematics courses and 642 is the prefix for Applied Mathematics courses. There is now no distinction in degree requirements for Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, and to some extent there has been a steady decrease in any emotional or intellectual separation between 640 and 642 courses which might have once existed. Each course number is a link to a description. Faculty members were asked to supply very informal descriptions of their courses. These descriptions were mildly edited. Some descriptions may not exist. Some descriptions which are given may change, maybe not too much.

Course name
This is the official course name in the Rutgers system for the given course number. There may be little relationship between this name and the course contents.

Instructor
Probably.

Place / Days, period; times
Probably. HLL refers to Hill Center. The Graduate Program and the Math Department control the use of few real classrooms. There are other spaces available which have sometimes been used for class meetings. Constraints on meeting times include times which should be left free for faculty meetings, times left free for traditional seminar meetings, and 8 AM. Most faculty and almost all graduate students are unwilling to admit that 8 AM exists as a time for intellectual converse. Note: Monday=M, Tuesday=T, Wednesday=W, Thursday=Th, Friday=F. The "period" refers to the Rutgers 80-minute period. Period 1 begins at 8:10. There are 20 minutes between periods.


Course number
Descriptions
Course name Instructor Place Days, period; times
640:501 Theor Func Real Vari Z. Han HLL 525 MW 5; 2:50-4:10
640:503 Theor Func Comp Vari X. Huang HLL 423 MTh 2; 9:50-11:10
640:507 Functional Analysis S. Chanillo HLL 423 MTh 3; 11:30-12:50
640:517 Partial Diff Equations Y. Li HLL 124 MW 5; 2:50-4:10
640:519 Sel Topics Diff Equ A. Cohen HLL 425 TF 2; 9:50-11:10
640:540 Intro Alg Topology C. Woodward HLL 425 M 3; 11:30-12:50 & W 2; 9:50-11:10
640:546 Topics Alg Topology P. Landweber HLL 525 TF 3 11:30-12:50
640:548 Diff Topology CANCELLED A. Kosinski HLL 525 MW 6; 4:30-5:50
640:549 Lie Groups S. Sahi HLL 525 MTh 2; 9:50-11:10
640:551 Abstract Algebra V. Retakh HLL 423 TTh 5; 2:50-4:10
640:555:01 Sel Topics Alg J. Lepowsky HLL 124 MW 4; 1:10-2:30
640:555:02 Sel Topics Alg S. Thomas HLL 525 MW 4; 1:10-2:30
640:559 Commutative Algebra F. Knop HLL 525 TTh 4; 1:10-2:30
640:561 Mathematical Logic G. Cherlin HLL 423 MTh 4; 1:10-2:30
640:573 Spec Top Number Theory H. Iwaniec HLL 124 TF 3; 11:30-12:50
640:574 Spec Top Number Theory J. Tunnell HLL 425 MW 5 2:50-4:10
642:527 Methods of Appl Math G. Goldin HLL 124 TTh 6; 4:30-5:50
642:550 Linear Alg & Applications R. Goodman HLL 423 MW 7; 6:10-7:30
642:561 Intro Math Physics A. Soffer HLL 423 TF 3; 11:30-12:50
642:577 Math Topics Syst Theory H. Sussmann HLL 423 TTh 6; 4:30-5:50
642:582 Combinatorics J. Beck HLL 425 MTh 2; 9:50-11:10
642:587 Sel Top Discret Math J. Kahn HLL 525 TF 2; 9:50-11:10
642:593 Math Fdns Ind Eng T. Butler HLL 124 MTh 2; 9:50-11:10
642:611:01 Sel Top Appl Math D. Zeilberger ARC (not HLL!) 118 MTh 2; 9:50-11:10
642:611:02 Sel Top Appl Math CANCELLED O. Costin HLL 124 MW 6; 4:30-5:50
642:661 Topics Math Physics D. Ruelle &
G. Gallavotti
HLL 425 MW 4; 1:10-2:30

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Beginning the fall semester

  • The first class day of the fall 2001 semester is Tuesday, September 4, 2001.
  • Written qualifying exams will be given during the week before the semester begins, Wednesday and Thursday morning (August 29 and 30, 2001).
  • There will be a reception for new graduate students on Friday afternoon (August 31, 2001) of the week before the semester begins.
"Tea" (coffee/tea/etc.) and "cookies" (variable in type and quantity) are available most afternoons (3:30-4:30 PM) during the semester, usually in the lounge on the 7th floor. On rare occasions even more food appears. There are many interesting seminars almost every week.

More complete descriptions of courses including information about texts are usually posted outside the 3rd floor mailroom. Almost all introductory graduate courses in mathematics are given as a series of lectures. Most such courses have written homework, and one or more oral or written examinations. Many basic courses have assigned texts. More advanced courses depart from these rules. Students are sometimes asked to lecture, and there are rarely assigned texts.

Period & times Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
2  9:50-11:10 AM HLL 423: 640:503
HLL 525: 640:549
HLL 425: 642:582
HLL 124: 642:593
ARC 118: 642:611:01
HLL 425: 640:519
HLL 525: 642:587
HLL 425: 640:540
HLL 423: 640:503
HLL 525: 640:549
HLL 425: 642:582
HLL 124: 642:593
ARC 118: 642:611:01
HLL 425: 640:519
HLL 525: 642:587
3  11:30 AM-12:50 PM HLL 425: 640:540
HLL 423: 640:507
HLL 423: 642:561
HLL 124: 640:573
HLL 525: 640:546
Faculty should leave
this time open.
HLL 423: 640:507 HLL 423: 642:561
HLL 124: 640:573
HLL 525: 640:546
4  1:10-2:30 PM HLL 525: 640:555:02
HLL 423: 642:561
HLL 425: 642:661
HLL 124: 640:555:01
HLL 525: 640:559 HLL 525: 640:555:02
HLL 425: 642:661
HLL 124: 640:555:01
HLL 525: 640:559
HLL 423: 642:561
Faculty should leave
this time open.
5  2:50-4:10 PM HLL 124: 640:517
HLL 525: 640:501
HLL 425: 640:574
HLL 423: 640:551 HLL 124: 640:517
HLL 525: 640:501
HLL 425: 640:574
HLL 423: 640:551  
6  4:30-5:50 PM HLL 525: 640:548
HLL 124: 642:611:02
HLL 124: 642:527
HLL 423: 642:577
HLL 525: 640:548
HLL 124: 642:611:02
HLL 124: 642:527
HLL 423: 642:577
Colloquium
Usually in HLL 705.
7  6:10-7:30 PM HLL 423: 642:550   HLL 423: 642:550    

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Last Modified 9/15/2001.

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