Spring 2005 courses in the Rutgers-New Brunswick Math Graduate Program

Spring 2005 courses in the Rutgers-New Brunswick Math Graduate Program


About the table below

Please see Beginning the spring semester at the bottom of this page. There is a compact version at the bottom of this page. More detailed course descriptions will also be available soon.
Warning:   All of the entries are intended to still be correct at the start of the semester. Please inform the graduate office if it needs to be updated. 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:   640 is the prefix for Pure Mathematics courses and 642 is the prefix for Applied Mathematics courses. There is no distinction in degree requirements for Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, but we still use this numbering differentiation, which dates to the 1960's.
Index number:   This five digit number is needed to register for a course in the Rutgers system.
Course name:   This is the official course name which is in the Rutgers system for the course corresponding to the given course number. There may be little relationship between this name and the course contents.
Instructor:   Probably.
Place:   Probable classroom. HLL refers to Hill Center. The Graduate Program and the Math Department control the use of only a few (four) real classrooms. There are other spaces available which have sometimes been used for class meetings.
Days, period; times:   Probably. 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 quite 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.


You may click on any course number and get a course description.

Course number
Descriptions
Index
number
Course name Instructor Place
Days, period; times
640:502 42079 Theor Func Real Vars R. Nussbaum HLL 425
TTh 6; 4:30-5:50
640:504 47723 Theor Func Comp Vars X. Huang HLL 425
MTh 3; 11:30-1:10
640:508 53344 Functional Analysis II A. Soffer HLL 423
TTh 4; 1:10-2:30
640:510 54569 Sel Topics in Analysis
Nonlinear PDE's
YY. Li HLL 423
TF 2; 9:50-11:10
640:511 54762 Sel Topics in Analysis
Contact Form Geometry
A. Bahri HLL 124
TTh 2; 9:50-11:10
640:518 50761 Partial Diff Equations R. Wheeden HLL 423
MW 4; 1:10-2:30
640:519 53346 Sel Topics Diff Equations
Heat Equations
Z. Han HLL 425
MW 2; 9:50-11:10
640:534 50429 Sel Topics in Geometry
Curvature & Symmetry
X. Rong HLL 423
MTh 2; 9:50-11:10
640:541 53348 Intro Alg Topology II P. Landweber HLL 525
T3 (11:30-12:50) and Th5 (2:50-4:10)
640:547 51285 Topology of Manifolds
Symplectic Geometry
C. Woodward HLL 525
MTh 3; 11:30-12:50
640:548 54802 Intro Geometry & Topology
NEW!!
S. Ferry HLL 124
TTh 4; 1:10-2:30
640:549 51286 Lie Groups R. Goodman HLL 425
MW 5; 2:50-4:10
640:552 42078 Abstract Algebra R. Wilson HLL 425
TF 2; 9:50-11:10
640:555 49630 Topics in Algebra
Combinatorial Commutative Algebra
D. Maclagan HLL 525
MW 5; 2:50-4:10
640:556 52208 Representation Theory
Invariant Theory
F. Knop HLL 525
TTh 6; 4:30-5:50
640:558 53349 Theory of Algebras
Hopf Algebras
E. Taft CANCELLED
Now a Reading Course
640:566 53350 Axiomatic Set Theory S. Thomas Freyl B-3 (CAC)
TTh 6; 4:30-5:50
640:574 51288 Topics Number Theory
Modular Forms and Modular Curves
J. Tunnell HLL 525
MW 4; 1:10-2:30
642:528 52207 Methods of Appl Math T. Butler HLL 124
TTh 6; 4:30-5:50
642:583 50432 Combinatorics J. Kahn HLL 525
MF 2; 9:50-11:10
642:587 50759 Sel Topics Discrete Math
Algorithmic Discrete Math
D. Zeilberger M3 in ARC PC IML Room 116
TH 3 in HLL 423 (11:30-12:50)
642:622 53359 Financial Math T. Petrie HLL 423
MW 5; 2:50-4:10
642:662 53361 Topics Math Physics
Relativistic Fields
M. Kiessling HLL 425
MW 5; 2:50-4:10


Beginning the spring semester

  • The first class day of the spring 2005 semester is Tuesday, January 18, 2005.
  • Written qualifying exams will be given during the week before the semester begins, Wednesday and Thursday morning (January 12 and 13, 2005).
"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 sometimes 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.

The compact schedule

Links here are to further information about each course on the course description page. Back to the top of this page.

Period & times Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
2  9:50-11:10 AM 640:534:01 HLL 423
640:519:01 HLL 425
640:583:01 HLL 525
640:510:01 HLL 423
640:552:01 HLL 425
640:534:01 HLL 423
640:519:01 HLL 425
  640:510:01 HLL 423
640:552:01 HLL 425
640:583:01 HLL 525
3  11:30 AM-12:50 PM 642:587:01 ARC PC Lab
640:504:01 HLL 425
640:547:01 HLL 525
640:558:01 HLL 423
640:541:01 HLL 525
Standard Faculty
Meeting Time
642:587:01 HLL 423
640:504:01 HLL 425
640:547:01 HLL 525
640:558:01 HLL 423
640:541:01 HLL 525
4  1:10-2:30 PM 640:518:01 HLL 423
640:574:01 HLL 525
640:548:01 HLL 124
640:508:01 HLL 423
undergrad HLL 425
undergrad HLL 525
640:518:01 HLL 423
640:574:01 HLL 525
640:548:01 HLL 124
640:508:01 HLL 423
undergrad HLL 425
undergrad HLL 525
Standard Faculty
Meeting Time
5  2:50-4:10 PM 642:662:01 HLL 124
642:622:01 HLL 423
640:549:01 HLL 425
640:555:01 HLL 525
undergrad HLL 124
640:511:01 HLL 423
642:662:01 HLL 124
642:622:01 HLL 423
640:549:01 HLL 425
640:555:01 HLL 525
undergrad HLL 124
640:511:01 HLL 423
Algebra Seminar 705
6  4:30-5:50 PM undergrad  HLL 124
Gelfand Seminar 705
642:528:01 HLL 124
642:502:01 HLL 425
640:556:01 HLL 525
640:566:01 FH-B3
undergrad  HLL 124
642:528:01 HLL 124
undergrad  HLL 423
642:502:01 HLL 425
640:556:01 HLL 525
640:566:01 FH-B3
Colloquium (4:30-5:30)
Almost always in HLL 705.
7  6:10-7:30 PM          
Last Modified 1/12/2005.
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