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Grad Program Open House

The School of Mathematics Graduate Program is happy to announce its annual Open House for prospective graduate students to be held on March 26, 2011. All interested prospective students are welcome to attend; invitations will be sent to selected domestic applicants.

Participants will learn how our programs works, and what it is like to study mathematics and be a teaching assistant here. They will meet faculty and current graduate students in both formal and informal settings.

Watch this site for more details as the schedule is developed.

Open House, Saturday March 31, 2012

AGENDA


Time

Room

Event

Presenter
       
   8:30 a.m.    Vincent 120    Registration, Coffee     
       
       
   9:00 a.m.    Vincent 16    Welcome, Program Overview    Richard McGehee
       
       
   10:00 a.m.         BREAK     
       
       
   10:30 a.m.    Vincent 16    Snapshots of Minnesota PDE (in a (Biased) Album of Nonlinear Waves)    Markus Keel
       
       
   11:00 a.m.    Vincent 16    Predicting Heart Failure    Stephen McIntyre
       
       
   11:30 a.m.    Vincent 16    Combinatorics at the University of Minnesota    Victor Reiner
       
       
   12:00 p.m.    Vincent 120    LUNCH     
       
       
   2:30 p.m.    Vincent 16    Automorphic Spectral Theory and Number Theoretic Applications    Amy Decelles
       
       
   3:00 p.m.    Vincent 16    Vincent Hall Thespians    Current Graduate Students
       
       
   3:15 p.m.    Vincent 16    Panel Discussion     
       
       
   4:00 p.m.         Tours (weather permitting),
   informal discussions		     
       
       
   5:00 p.m.    Vincent 120    SUPPER     

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