The course meets Tuesday and Thursday from 1:00---2:15 in LGRC A203.

There are several agendas:

1. Learn to use Latex, a word processing tool available on every platform to write scientific texts.
    Here a simple template you can start with and here the pdf of it.

2. To learn about some of the Millenium Problems, a number of important mathematical problems
    for which the Clay Mathematical Institute offered prices $1 Million each, and write about them.

3. To get a better feeling what mathematics is all about....

4. Here a link to Gowers' (editor) book (and intro) to all of math....


Topics and groups presenting them:

1. Prime Numbers and the Riemann Zeta Function: N. Anderson, B. Frost,  A. Havens, S. Murphy, S. Sarasin.
2. Elliptic Curves I:  J. Arnaud,  E. Boyle, C. Esposito, N. Halloran, K. Kern, K. Schmoll.
3. Elliptic Curves II:  E. Barnes, R. A. Bilotta,  R. Bobrakov, J. Cronan,  J. Eaton,  S. Ross.
4. Cryptography:  E. Burkare, I. Clancy, B. Clark, J. Daniels, L. Kacot, M. Ostroski.
5. Poincare Conjecture:  C. Calabrese, C. Cayer, D. Field, K. Lee, J. Shenk, M. Weng.