The Warmup Program for entering graduate students
(WOMP)

WOMP 2023

This program is organized and run by advanced graduate students for incoming grads in the math department. It usually takes place during a two-week span preceding the beginning of the school year. Its intentions are threefold:

• to provide a bridge from undergraduate curricula to the notoriously challenging first-year program;
• to introduce new students to older grads who can provide mathematical and personal resources for them; and
• to introduce the new students to each other, the department, and Chicago at large.

The Warmup Program is a permanent tradition, founded in 2000. Typically, there are between ten and twelve two-hour sessions on math, with additional meetings to talk about Chicago and the University, and social events both in Hyde Park and around the city. Graduate presenters have compiled handouts for some of the math sessions for use in future years. These handouts and schedules from previous years' programs can be found below.

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