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Mentoring through Critical Transistion Points (MCTP)
Summer programs 2013
Bridge Program for Current Juniors
A main purpose of this program is to encourage students entering their last year of college to apply to graduate school in the mathematical sciences. Other goals include
- 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 students on courses to take in their last year, and
- mentoring the students on graduate schools and graduate applications.
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.
Minimum prerequisites for this program are a course in linear algebra and a course in either advanced calculus or real analysis. Students in this program are welcome to apply to the entering graduate school program the following summer.
