The main goal of this program is for each student to have a successful first year of graduate school. This will be accomplished by

• enhancing the student's proving skills,
• deepening the student's knowledge and facility with linear algebra or modern algebra,
• deepening the student's knowledge and facility with advanced calculus or real analysis
• mentoring the student as to the proper first year courses to take.

A typical day in the program will consist of two lectures/discussions with a professor in the morning and two workshops in which the students work on problems in the afternoon, one on algebra and one on analysis. Periodically there will be guest lectures by various faculty members on relevant contemporary topics.

This program will run concurrently with the one for entering graduate students. There will be two levels for each of algebra and analysis. Placement will depend upon the background of the student. Lectures and work sessions will be scheduled so that it is possible to be in the advanced group in one subject and the beginning group in the other or the same level in both.

The minimum prerequiste for this program is acceptance of an offer of graduate study in the mathematical sciences in a graduate program that leads to a Ph.D.