The following is the current schedule for WOMP 2006. For a more condensed version, click here .

"A Practical Guide to Life in Hyde Park and Beyond" (pdf/ps)

Answers to practical questions about living in the University neighborhood, written by Elizabeth Csima and edited by Travis Schedler and Rachel Epstein.

Monday, Sept. 11:

• Morning : Welcome and Tour of Hyde Park
• Afternoon : Algebra I - Karen Lange (handout pdf) and Mike Broshi
  Basis, dual vector spaces, dimension, linear maps, determinant, characteristic polynomial, Jordan form, rings, ideals, modules, PIDs, UFDs.

• Morning : Algebra II - Alan Anders and Rachel Epstein (handout without diagrams pdf)
  Classification theorem for abelian groups, classification of modules over PIDs, semisimple and nilpotent decomposition, fields, field extensions, Galois theory.
• Afternoon : Trip to Field Museum of Natural History ($7 admission), ; meet in first-year office at 12:30.

• Morning : Topology - Liz Beazley (handout pdf) and Mohammed Abouzaid
  Topology, basis, subbasis, compactness, separation axioms, product topology, metric spaces Density, First and Second Countability, Hausdorffness, Normality, Quotient Topologies, Connectedness .
• Afternoon : Analysis I - Nick Longo and Rob Masson (handout pdf)
  Measure theory, motivation of Lebesgue integration, function spaces and Arzela-Ascoli.
• Evening (8:00): Game night in the Barn; meet at 8:00 in the Barn (3rd floor Eckhart/Ryerson) for board and card games.

• Morning : Manifolds I - Hanna Bennett and Ian Biringer
  Manifold, examples including S^n and RP^n, calculus in R^n, change of variables, inverse and implicit function theorems, existence and uniqueness of solutions to ODEs.
• Afternoon : Category Theory - Niles Johnson and Justin Noel
  Category, functor, natural transformation, limits, colimits, products, coproducts, pullbacks, universal property, lots of examples.
• Evening (4:15) : Free trip to Art Institute; meet in first-year office at 4:15. The museum is free from 5:00-8:00.

• Morning : Algebraic Topology - Mike Shulman and Megan Guichard (Handout pdf )
  Fundamental group, covering spaces, universal covering, homotopy, group actions.
• Afternoon (E206): Life in Chicago, a forum to learn about all Chicago has to offer, including a Q&A session.

• Afternoon (1:00) : Trip Downtown, meet at bus stop at 55th and S Hyde Park Blvd at 1:00.

• Afternoon (1:00): International Student Orientation (Mandatory). At International House, in the Assembly Hall. More information here.

• Morning : Sleep in! Nothing planned.
• Afternoon : Analysis II - Ariel Barton (Handout pdf) and Anne Thomas
  Hilbert spaces, Banach spaces, Fourier series, Fourier transforms.
• Evening (7:00): Bowling at Seven-Ten Lanes, 55th and Ellis

• Morning : Get university ID cards, 1100 E. 57th Street, Regenstein Library A-11.
• Afternoon : Graduate Student Orientation: includes lunch, information sessions, and refreshments at the pub.

• Morning : Algebra III - Aaron Marcus and Matt Booth
  Tensor algebra, symmetric algebra, alternating powers, Hom, determinant, differential forms, exterior derivative, deRham complex.
• Afternoon : Manifolds II - Alex Ritter and Keerthi M.
  Tangent spaces, tangent bundle, vector bundles, Lie groups, Lie algebras, examples.
• Evening (6:00) : Dinner at Medici, 57th and Kimbark. Meet at First-year office at 5:45 and walk over.

• Morning (E206): Departmental Orientation
• Afternoon (Time TBA): First-year picture, meet on front steps of Eckhart for your class picture.
• Afternoon (2:15-4:15) : Homological Algebra - Emma Smith and Kate Ponto (Handout pdf)
  Complexes, homology, cohomology, exact sequences, derived functors: Ext and Tor via projective resolutions.

• Morning : Breakfast at Pancake House, 1517 E. Hyde Park Blvd, by the corner of Lake Park and E Hyde Park, meet at restaurant at 10:00. Visit the website for a menu
• Afternoon (3:00, E206): Forum on how to get through the first year program
• Evening (5:00) : Departmental Picnic, outside in quad behind Eckhart.

• Afternoon (2:30): Walk Downtown, meet in first-year office for a lakeside walk downtown to Giordano's.

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