Instructor. Sigurd Angenent. Office: Van Vleck Hall 609. Office Hours: Monday 8:45am–9:45am and Wednesday 9:50am–10:50am. If you have questions about the course, in particular mathematical questions, then please don't send e-mail, but post the question on Piazza instead.
TAs. The Teaching Assistants and their office hours are:
| Brandon Alberts: | Tue 9:45-10:45am, Wed 8:50am-9:40am, Van Vleck 522 |
| Ruiwen Shu: | Wed/Fri 11am-12noon, VV420 |
| Chun Gan: | Mon/Thu 7:30pm-8:30pm, VV101 |
| Benjamin Bruce: | Wed/Fri 2pm-3pm, VV816 |
| Licheng Xu: | Mon/Wed 2:30-3:30pm, VV416 |
| Abhimanyu Yadav: | Fri 11:30am - 1:30pm, VV318 |
Piazza. This term we will be using Piazza for class discussion. The system is highly catered to getting you help fast and efficiently from classmates, the TA, and myself. Rather than emailing questions to the teaching staff, I encourage you to post your questions on Piazza. If you have any problems or feedback for the developers of piazza, email team@piazza.com.
You'll find our piazza class page at this link.
Lecture time and location. Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 7:45 am—8:35am, in Van Vleck Hall B102.
Text book, electronic version, and corrections. We follow the course notes that will be on sale in Van Vleck Hall in the week before classes start. The pdf file of the notes is here.
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Exams. There will be three in–class midterm exams. These will be held on September 27, October 25, and November 20. Location of the exams will be announced here. There will be no alternate exams.
Bring your student ID to each exam. Calculators and other computing devices will not be allowed on exams in this course.
Homework and Quizzes. Homework will be assigned every Friday in lecture, and later posted here. Homework will not be collected, but on every other Thursday there will be a quiz in your discussion section on problems similar to those assigned the previous Friday. There will be no make ups for quizzes, but we will drop the lowest quiz score.
Grades. The exams and quizzes contribute to your grade according to the following weights:
| Exam 1 | 17% |
| Exam 2 | 17% |
| Exam 3 | 17% |
| Final | 30% |
| Discussion quizzes | 19% |
| 0—49:F, | 50—59:D, | 60—69:C, | 70—77:BC, | 78—85:B, | 86—91:AB, | 92—100:A, |