The program was started in 2000, when it was called the Graduate Readiness Annual Introductory Lecture Series (GRAILS). The program ran for one week, with the following talks:

Vincent Lucarelli: Ring Theory

Kevin Wortman: Manifolds

Johann Sigurdsson: Topology

Mark Behrens: Inverse and Implicit Function Theorems

Steven Spallone: Fundamental Theorem for Modules Over a PID

Brian Johnson: Group Theory

Dan Margalit: Riemannian Geometry

Dan Reuman: Galois Theory

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