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                                    QUALIFYING EXAM PREPARATION SEMINAR  (QEPS)

Each Spring semester, starting with Spring 2013, the Department of Mathematics and Statistics will run a Qualifying Exam Preparation Seminar. This seminar is a QE problem session with a support group of advanced graduate students and postdocs to help out. This effort builds on previous such seminars, held most recently by Professors Embid (for 5 years!) and Buchner, with the goal of making them a permanent offering of our department.

The spring seminar will meet every week for up to 1 1/2 hours. The focus this Spring 2013 will be on the qualifying exam areas

            Algebra
            Geometry
            Real Analysis
            Complex Analysis

You can sign up for 1 credit hour for this seminar (CR/NC depending on participation), but this is not a requirement to participate. For Spring 2013, the scheduled seminar course number, time and room are

            Math 605, Section 3, 1 credit hour
            Time: Tuesdays 3:30-5:00, Room: SMLC 124

The meetings during the semester will be on

            Tuesday, February 19th, 3:30-5:00pm             Algebra/Geometry
            Topics: nonabelian p-group, normal subgroups, AutQ Qbar
            Tuesday, February 26th, 3:30-5:00pm             Real/Complex Analysis
            Tuesday, March 5th, 3:30-5:00pm             Algebra/Geometry
            Tuesday, March 19th, 3:30-5:00pm             Real/Complex Analysis
            Tuesday, March 26th, 3:30-5:00pm             Algebra/Geometry
            Tuesday, April 2nd, 3:30-5:00pm             Real/Complex Analysis
            Tuesday, April 9th, 3:30-5:00pm             Algebra/Geometry
            Tuesday, April 16th, 3:30-5:00pm             Real/Complex Analysis
            Tuesday, April 23rd, 3:30-5:00pm             Your choice

Your friendly Qualifying Exam Support Group this Spring 2013 consists of


            Dusty Brooks, MCTP Graduate Student Felllow
            Martha Byrne, MCTP Graduate Student Felllow
            Taylor Dupuy, MCTP Summer Fellow
            Robert Niemeyer, MCTP Postdoctoral Fellow
            David Weirich, MCTP Summer Fellow

Part of the outcome will be well-documented seminar material that can be used as a guide to continue it in the future.

Any interested students are invited to attend. In the following MCTP funded years we expect to have 2 MCTP postdocs, which will make it possible to cover all exam topics. This year (spring 2013) students interested in reviewing the topics outside of those listed are encouraged to meet with each other.