IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute

2000 Summer Session

July 18, 2000

7:30-9:30 a.m.

Breakfast (AmeriSuites lobby or IAS Dining Hall, depending on where you are housed)

9:00-10:00 a.m.

ER Seminar; White-Levy Room
GSS Problem Session; Simonyi Hall 101
HST Course: Building Mathematics in the Classroom: Reflections, a feet-on activity with Annie Fetter of the Geometry Forum; Dilworth Room B
UF Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Other New Curricula for Liberal Arts Students; Liebowitz Classroom
UP Course (Advanced) - Algebra and Regular Languages; West Building Lecture Hall

10:15-11:15

ER Seminar (White-Levy Room)
GSS Lecture: Introduction to Complexity Theory; (Wolfensohn Hall)
HST Course: Advanced Mathematics: Spherical Geometry and Cartography (Dilworth B)
UP Problem Session (West Building Lecture Hall)

11:30-12:30

ER Seminar (White-Levy Room)
GSS Lecture: Introduction to Complexity Theory; (Wolfensohn Hall)
HST Course: Teaching Mathematics with Technology: Creating Web Pages; Annie Fetter, Geometry Forum. (Dilworth Room A)
UP Course (introductory) - Problems, Models and Classes; West Building Lecture Hall

12:30-1:30 PM

Lunch (Dining Hall) (the food line closes at 1:30, however you are invited to stay as long as you like)

1:45-2:45

GSS Lecture: Introduction to Complexity Theory; (Wolfensohn Hall)
HST Presentation (Dilworth Room B)

3:00-4:00

Cross Program Activity (Wolfensohn Hall)
Liping Ma, author of Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics

4:00-4:30

Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room)

 

4:30-5:30

HST Problem Session (Dilworth Room B)
RP Seminar: Chernoff type bounds for sum of dependent random variables and their applications in randomized algorithms; Van Vu, Microsoft (Wolfensohn Hall)
UP Problem session (West Building Lecture Hall)
GSS Problem/Discussion Session (Simonyi Hall 101)
UFP Video festival "How To Speak" by Patrick Winston, MIT AI Lab; "Thinking Together" Collaborative Learning Experiment at Harvard University. (Liebowitz Classroom)

 

7:00

All-Institute small group discussions with Liping Ma (AmeriSuites Hotel meeting room)

(Program locations are subject to change – please check the schedule daily.)

 

Announcements:

Cross Program Activity Information: We encourage all participants to attend the Cross Program Activity, which is held Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday in Wolfensohn Hall at 3:00 P.M.

Today

3:00: Presentation by Dr. Liping Ma, author of Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics.

7:00: Small group discussion with Dr. Ma. Cookies and beverage will be served.

Thursday:

3:00 Mathematics, Music, and the Sublime; Robert Taub, Institute for Advanced Study, and Edward Rothstein, New York Times.

Thursday night at 8:00: Robert Taub in concert! Dr. Robert Taub, world-renowned piano virtuoso, is the Artist-in-Residence here at the Institute for Advanced Study. On Thursday night Dr. Taub will present a special piano concert for the participants of PCMI’s Summer Session 2000 and the faculty and members of the Institute for Advanced Study; the concert will take place in Wolfensohn Hall on the Institute campus. Tickets are free of charge but are required: please pick up a ticket from the PCMI office today, tomorrow, or Thursday. Seating is by general admission and limited. Children under the age of 12 are not admitted. This concert is made possible by generous funding from the Huntsman Foundation, Salt Lake City, Utah.

All PCMI participants are invited to join a High School Teacher Program Working Group. See list of groups and meeting times on the bulletin board.

The PCMI Office is located at 95 Morse Lane, in the housing complex. This is adjacent to the laundry room and is entered through the door underneath the carport. Office hours are 8:15-5:00 on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, and 8:15-1:00 on Wednesdays. Phone: 8140 from any house phone or 734-8140 from the outside.

Coffee and Tea are available daily in the Coffee Lounge (mid-level of the Dining Hall) from 9:30-11:30 a.m.

The PCMI Message Board is located in the foyer of the Dining Hall (upper level). Messages, sign-up sheets, and announcements will be posted here. Please check the Board as often as possible throughout the day. Daily schedules will be posted on the Board and available for the taking from a table nearby.

The Computer Lab is located in the Dilworth Room on the lower level of the Dining Hall. The lab is in use for classes during the morning, but is available for general use throughout the afternoon and evening. You will need your Institute Access Card in order to get into the Dining Hall after hours. Academic work has priority over email.

We ask that no beverages be taken into the computer lab or any of the lecture halls or meeting rooms. Thank you!

Weekend and Wednesday afternoon trips and get-togethers are organized on a casual basis by the PCMI participants – and that could be you! If you are interested in organizing such an activity, please use the blank sign-up sheets on the Message Board. Be sure to indicate the method of transportation, an estimate of the cost, and the number of people you are willing to take along (if there is a limit). The PCMI office has a few guidebooks which you are welcome to use for planning (please do not take them out of the office).

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