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Master Calendar

Date Event Attendees
2/22/06 NSF Site Visit
2/16/06 First GRE Prep Course meeting
2/16/06 Departmental VIGRE Meeting
2/16/06 VIGRE Steering Committee Meeting
2/9/06 VIGRE Steering Committee Meeting 9
2/2/06 VIGRE Steering Committee Meeting 6
1/18/06 First Math Circle meeting for Spring 2006 36
12/5/05 VIGRE Mini-course publicity mailing 249
10/7/05 VIGRE Steering Committee Meeting 6
9/30/05 VIGRE Steering Committee Meeting 8
9/28/05 First Math Circle meeting for Fall 2005 47
9/23/05 VIGRE Steering Committee Meeting 10
9/16/05 VIGRE Steering Committee Meeting 8
9/12/05 VIGRE Accounting Meeting 3
9/9/05 VIGRE Steering Committee Meeting 12
9/7/05 Math Circle Organizational Meeting 14
9/2/05 VIGRE Steering Committee Meeting 10
8/26/05 VIGRE Graduate Student Meeting 9
8/23/05 VIGRE Steering Committee Meeting 10
8/8/05 TA/TF Training
(First week of two week program)
6/14/05 VIGRE accounting meeting 3
6/13/05 ACCESS Program
First week of math program
6/13/2005 Summer High School Program
Three week program through 6/30/2005
16
6/6/2005 Summer REU Program on
"The Mathematics of Games of Chance"
Six week program through 7/15/2005
15
5/19/2005 VIGRE Steering Committee meeting 12
5/16/2005 Mini-course on
"Arc Spaces and Motivic Integration"
Two week program through 5/27/2005
24
5/16/2005 Mini-course on
"Nonconvex Variational Problems and Applications"
Two week program through 5/27/2005
19
5/4/2005 Last Math Circle meeting of the 2004-2005 AY 19
5/3/2005 VIGRE Steering Committee meeting 9
4/15/2005 2005-2006 VIGRE Graduate Fellowships announced 8
4/9/2005 6th Annual Calculus Challenge 8
4/7/2005 VIGRE Steering Committee Meeting 8
2/17/05 First GRE Prep Course meeting
1/19/05 First Math Circle meeting for Spring Semester 24
1/7/05 VIGRE Steering Committee Meeting 9
12/1/04 Calculus Speed Challenge 33
10/14/04 Organizational meeting for summer 2005 mini-course:
"Nonconvex Variational Problems and Applications"
8
10/04/04 First meeting of the GRE Preparation Course
9/30/04 VIGRE Accounting Meeting 4
9/29/04 Math Circle
(First session of the 2004-2005 academic year)
20
9/16/04 VIGRE Steering Committee Meeting 7
9/9/04 Math Circle Organizational Meeting 9
8/26/04 Meeting with VIGRE Post Docs 5
8/16/04 Meeting with VIGRE Graduate Fellows 8
8/9/04 TA/TF Training
(First week of two week program)
7/6/04 ACCESS Program
(Second week of math program)
6/14/04 Summer High School Program
(First week of three week program)
21
6/14/04 ACCESS Program
(First week of math program)
6/7/04 Mini-Course on "Classical Problems in Commutative Algebra"
(First week of two week program)
26
6/1/04 Summer REU Program on "Inverse Problems and Applications"
(First week of six week program)
13
5/10/04 Mini-Course on "The Synthetic Geometry of the Weil-Petersson Metric"
(First week of two week program)
12
4/28/04 Math Circle
(Contest #5 and End-of-Year Party)
13
4/22/04 VIGRE Steering Committee Meeting 7
4/21/04 Math Circle 14
4/14/04 Math Circle 18
4/7/04 Math Circle
(Contest #4)
9
3/26/04 Intermountain Section of the MAA Spring Meeting
(Schmitt & Hartenstine Participated in VIGRE Panel of Project NExT)
3/31/04 Math Circle 13
3/24/04 Math Circle 16
3/10/04 Math Circle 19
3/9/04 Meeting with VIGRE Assistant Professors 7
3/9/04 Meeting with VIGRE Graduate Fellows 6
3/3/04 Math Circle 12
2/25/04 Math Circle
(Contest #3)
9
2/19/04 VIGRE Steering Committee Meeting 8
2/18/04 Math Circle 22
2/11/04 Math Circle 19
2/4/04 Math Circle 21
1/28/04 Math Circle 24
1/21/04 Math Circle
(First session of Spring 2004)
20
12/15/03 VIGRE Steering Committee Meeting 8
12/10/03 Math Circle
(Last session of Fall 2003)
20
12/3/03 Math Circle 23
11/19/03 Math Circle 27
11/12/03 Math Circle 17
11/5/03 Math Circle 22
10/29/03 Math Circle
(Contest #1)
21
10/23/03 VIGRE Steering Committee Meeting 10
10/22/03 Math Circle 22
10/15/03 Math Circle 23
10/15/03 NSF Site Visit
(Third year review of VIGRE grant)
10/14/03 Math Circle Publicity
(Reception for U of U K-12 Faculty & Instructors)
10/8/03 Math Circle 25
10/1/03 Math Circle 34
9/25/03 VIGRE Steering Committee Meeting 10
9/24/03 Math Circle 34
9/17/03 Math Circle
(First meeting of Fall 2003)
41
9/16/03 Math Circle Organizational Meeting 6
9/11/03 Math Circle Organizational Meeting 10
8/29/03 Math Circle Publicity
(Mailed application forms & brochures to SLC area students & teachers)
145
8/28/03 VIGRE Steering Committee Meeting 8
8/22/03 Math Circle Publicity
(Listed program on Smart Kids website)
8/21/03 Math Circle Organizational Meeting 7
8/19/03 Meeting with VIGRE Graduate Fellows 10
8/18/03 Meeting with VIGRE Assistant Professors 9
8/4/03 TA/TF Training
(First meeting of two week program)
7/28/03 Mini-Course on Waves in Inhomogeneous Media
(First meeting of two week program)
23
7/7/03 ACCESS Program
(Second week of math program)
6/16/03 ACCESS Program
(First week of math program)
6/9/03 Summer High School Program
(First meeting of three week program)
24
6/2/03 Mini-Course on the Mathematics Behind Biological Invasions
(First meeting of two week program)
22
5/23/03 Summer High School Program Organizatinal Meeting 5
5/14/03 Summer High School Program Organizational Meeting 4
5/12/03 Summer REU Program on Rational and Integer Points on Elliptic Curves
(First meeting of six week program)
11
5/9/03 2-Day AMS-MAA-SIAM-ASA Funding Opportunities Conference in Washington DC
(Klaus Schmitt and Gordan Savin attended.)
5/2/03 Meeting of High School Math Specialists in Price, UT
(Pam Giles presented the University of Utah's Outreach Program.)
4/30/03 Math Circle
(Last Math Circle of 2002-2003 Academic Year)
23
4/24/03 VIGRE Steering Committee Meeting 6
4/23/03 Math Circle 15
4/16/03 Math Circle 18
4/15/03 Summer High School Program Organizational Meeting 4
4/12/03 Western Universities' Regional VIGRE Workshop at the University of Washington
(Peter Trombi and Graeme Milton attended.)
4/11/03 2-Day NCTM Meeting in San Antonio, TX
(Klaus Schmitt attended.)
4/9/03 Math Circle 16
4/6/03 VIGRE External Advisory and Assessment Committee Site Visit
(The committee met with various faculty and student groups for part of the day.)
4/5/03 VIGRE External Advisory and Assessment Committee Site Visit
(The committee met with various faculty and student groups all day.)
4/2/03 Math Circle 20
4/2/03 Summer High School Program Organizational Meeting 5
3/26/03 Math Circle 16
3/13/03 Steering Committee Meeting 7
3/12/03 Math Circle (Contest #5) 12
3/7/03 Summer High School Program Publicity
Brochures Distributed at Intermountain Junior Science & Humanities Symposium
3/6/03 Math Circle Organizational Meeting 5
3/5/03 Math Circle 17
3/4/03 Summer High School Program Publicity
Mailing to Individuals & Organizations
2/27/03 Math Circle Organizational Meeting 5
2/26/03 Math Circle 20
2/21/03 Math Circle Organizational Meeting 5
2/20/03 Summer High School Program Publicity
Mailing to Public Schools & District Math Specialists
2/19/03 Math Circle 20
2/14/03 Math Circle Organizational Meeting 6
2/12/03 Math Circle 27
2/7/03 Math Circle Organizational Meeting 5
2/7/03 KCPW Public Radio Talk of the City
(Hugo Rossi & Renzo Cavalieri Guest Speakers)
2/5/03 Math Circle (Contest #4) 27
2/3/03 Mathematics Behind Biological Invasions Mini-Course Publicity
(Emailed Announcement to Faculty Colleagues)
129
1/31/03 Math Circle Organizational Meeting 4
1/30/03 Steering Committee Meeting 8
1/29/03 Math Circle 22
1/24/03 Math Circle Organizational Meeting 5
1/22/03 Math Circle 33
1/17/03 Math Circle Organizational Meeting 5
1/15/03 Math Circle
(First session of Spring 2003)
30
1/10/03 Outreach Advisory Committee Meeting 8
1/10/03 Math Circle Organizational Meeting 7
1/7/03 Math Circle & Summer High School Program Gift
(Math & Science Education Foundation Donated $1,000 to Each Program)
12/12/02 Math Circle Publicity
(Mailed letters to interested people from College of Science Day.)
21
12/11/02 Math Circle
(Last session of Fall 2002)
30
12/10/02 Math Circle Organizational Meeting 4
12/9/02 Math Circle Organizational Meeting 5
12/4/02 Math Circle 31
12/2/02 Math Circle Organizational Meeting 4
11/26/02 PI Meeting with Graduate Fellows 8
11/25/02 Math Circle Organizational Meeting 5
11/20/02 Math Circle 28
11/20/02 PI Meeting with Post Docs 6
11/18/02 Math Circle Organizational Meeting 5
11/16/02 Math Circle & Summer High School Program Publicity
(Brochures were given to attendees of College of Science Day.)
425
11/13/02 Math Circle (Contest #2) 24
11/12/02 Internal Advisory Committee Meeting with PIs 7
11/7/02 Math Circle 35
11/4/02 Math Circle Organizational Meeting 6
10/31/02 Math Circle 29
10/31/02 Internal Advisory Committee Meeting with Graduate Fellows 10
10/31/02 Internal Advisory Committee Meeting with Post Docs 7
10/28/02 Math Circle Organizational Meeting 6
10/23/02 Math Circle 36
10/21/02 Steering Committee Meeting 9
10/21/02 Math Circle Organizational Meeting 5
10/16/02 Math Circle 37
10/14/02 Math Circle Organizational Meeting 6
10/9/02 Math Circle (Contest #1) 35
10/7/02 Math Circle Organizational Meeting 6
10/2/02 Math Circle 36
9/30/02 Math Circle Organizational Meeting 4
9/27/02 Steering Committee Meeting 7
9/25/02 PI Meeting with All Mathematics Graduate Students
9/25/02 Math Circle
(Renzo Cavalieri was interviewed by the West High School video newspaper.)
49
9/24/02 VIGRE Annual Report mailed to NSF and all advisory committee members 12
9/23/02 Math Circle Organizational Meeting 5
9/18/02 Math Circle
(First session of the 2002-03 academic year)
50
9/16/02 Math Circle Organizational Meeting 5
9/9/02 Math Circle Organizational Meeting 4
9/4/02 Math Circle Publicity
(Gave brochure to MESA to distribute)
118
8/28/02 Math Circle Publicity
(Mailed announcement to Salt Lake area educators)
75
8/27/02 Math Circle Publicity
(Mailed announcement to last year's participants)
27
8/15/02 PI Meeting with Post Docs 5
8/15/02 PI Meeting with Graduate Fellows 8
8/14/02 GSAC Organizational Meeting 4
8/8/02 Steering Committee Meeting 8
7/8/02 ACCESS Program
(Second week of math session)
6/28/02 Steering Committee Meeting 6
6/17/02 ACCESS Program
(First week of math session)
6/10/02 Summer High School Program
(First meeting of three week program)
5/30/02 Math Circle Gift
(Eskuche Foundation Donated $1,810)
5/28/02 Variational Methods & PDE Mini-Course
(First meeting of two week program)
20
5/13/02 Complex Hyperbolic Geometry Mini-Course
(First meeting of two week program)
20
5/8/02 Math Circle
(Last session of 2001-02 academic year)
20
5/1/02 Math Circle (Contest #5) 17
4/30/02 Undergraduate Colloquium
(Peter Alfeld - "Infinity is Different")
4/30/02 GSAC Organizational Meeting
4/25/02 Steering Committee Meeting 9
4/24/02 Math Circle 28
4/24/02 Math Circle Organizational Meeting 7
4/23/02 Undergraduate Colloquium
(Jim Keener - "Arrhythmias by Dimension")
4/23/02 GSAC Colloquium
(Mark Avery - "The American Option Valuation Problem")
4/17/02 Math Circle 23
4/16/02 Undergraduate Colloquium
(Stewart Ethier - "The Gambler's Ruin Formula")
4/16/02 GSAC Colloquium
(Grigory Mikhalkin - "What is Topical Algebraic Geometry?")
4/10/02 Math Circle 23
4/9/02 Undergraduate Colloquium
(Kenneth Chu - "The Good and Evil of the Axiom of Choice")
4/9/02 GSAC Colloquium
(Florian Enescu - "An Incursion Into Commutative Algebra on the Footsteps of a Simple Example")
4/3/02 Math Circle 23
4/2/02 Undergraduate Colloquium
(Jesse Ratzkin - "Geometric Models for Crystal Growth")
4/2/02 GSAC Colloquium
(Javier Fernandez - "A Window into Mirror Symmetry")
3/27/02 Math Circle (Contest #4) 24
3/26/02 Undergraduate Colloquium
(Nick Korevaar - "Making Minimal Surfaces with Complex Analysis")
3/26/02 GSAC Colloquium
(Mladen Bestvina - "How to Average Trees")
3/22/02 Math Circle 22
3/19/02 Undergraduate Colloquium
(Mladen Bestvina - "On the Total Curvature of Knots")
3/19/02 GSAC Colloquium
(Kenneth Chu - "The Good and Evil of the Axiom of Choice")
3/13/02 Math Circle 19
3/12/02 Undergraduate Colloquium
(Jingyi Zhu - "First Exit and Company Defaults")
3/12/02 GSAC Colloquium
(Jesse Ratzkin - "A (Brief) Summary of Constant Mean Curvature Surfaces in Euclidean Space")
3/6/02 Math Circle 23
3/5/02 Undergraduate Colloquium
(Paul Bressloff - "What Visual Hallucinations Tell Us About the Brain")
3/5/02 GSAC Colloquium
(Graeme Milton - "A Variety of Problems in Composite Materials")
3/1/02 Variational Methods and Nonlinear PDE Mini-Course
(Email advertisement of program)
5
3/1/02 Variational Methods and Nonlinear PDE Mini-Course
(Mailed advertisement for program)
4
2/11/02 Variational Methods and Nonlinear PDE Mini-Course
(Mailed advertisement for program)
15
2/11/02 REU Publicity
(Posted program announcement on MAA REU web site)
2/11/02 REU Publicity
(Posted program announcement on AMS REU web site)
2/7/02 Complex Hyperbolic Geometry Mini-Course
(Mailed advertisement for the program)
67
1/30/02 Math Circle (Contest #3) 18
1/29/02 Undergraduate Colloquium
(Andrej Cherkaev - "Damage and Failure: A Mathematical Perspective")
1/24/02 REU Publicity
(Emailed advertisement for summer program)
300
1/23/02 Math Circle 24
1/22/02 Undergraduate Colloquium
(Gordan Savin - "Continuous Fractions and Pell Equations")
1/17/02 Steering Committee Meeting 8
1/16/02 Math Circle 20
1/15/02 Undergraduate Colloquium
(Robert Guy - "Linear and Non-Linear Circuits: Oscillations, Bifurcations, Excitability, and Chaos")
1/9/02 Math Circle
(First session of Spring 2002)
24
1/8/02 Mini-Course Publicity
(Emailed program announcements)
200
12/12/01 Math Circle (Contest #2)
(Last session of Fall 2001)
25
12/5/01 Math Circle 29
12/4/01 Undergraduate Colloquium
(Davar Khoshnevisan - "Stirling's Formula and Laplace's Method, or How to Put Your Calculus to Good Use")
12/4/01 GSAC Colloquium
(Aaron Fogelson - "Mathematical Explorations of Blood Clotting")
12/1/01 External Advisory & Assessment Committee Site Visit
11/30/01 External Advisory & Assessment Committee Site Visit
11/29/01 Steering Committee Meeting 6
11/28/01 Math Circle 23
11/27/01 Undergraduate Colloquium
(Robert Hanson - "Not Theory for Moutaineers: An Introduction to the Mathematical Thoery of Knots - None of Which Is Applicable to Climbing Mountains")
11/27/01 GSAC Colloquium
(Robert Hanson - "This Graph is Tangled!")
11/27/01 Outreach Advisory Committee Meeting 4
11/20/01 Undergraduate Colloquium
(Andrejs Treibergs - "My Favorite Proofs of the Isoperimetric Inequality")
11/20/01 GSAC Colloquium
(Aaron Bertram - "Algebraic Curves: What Are They and What Are They Good For?")
11/16/01 Undergraduate Colloquium
(Carl Cowen, Purdue - "The Farmer's Legacy: An Isoperimetric Problem")
11/16/01 GSAC Colloquium
(Carl Cowen, Purdue - "Rearranging the Alternating Harmonic Series")
11/15/01 Steering Committee Meeting 6
11/14/01 Math Circle 26
11/13/01 Undergraduate Colloquium
(Alastair Craw - "How on Earth Does a Graduate Student Start Doing Original Work?")
11/13/01 GSAC Colloquium
(Larsen Louder - "An Introduction to Hyperbolic Geometry with Some Neat Applications")
11/7/01 Math Circle 33
11/6/01 Undergraduate Colloquium
(Graeme Milton - "The Mathematics of Shape Memory Materials")
11/6/01 GSAC Colloquium
(Andrej Cherkaev - "Control of Damage and Dissipation in Structures")
10/31/01 Math Circle 24
10/30/01 Undergrduate Colloquium
(Advising Session for Math Undergraduate Majors)
10/30/01 GSAC Colloquium
(Boas Erez - "How to Win a Nobel Prize in Mathematics")
10/24/01 Math Circle 23
10/23/01 Undergraduate Colloquium
(Fletcher Gross - "Inclusion-Exclusion: A Subject That Really Counts")
10/23/01 GSAC Colloquium
(Brad Peercy - "Some Basics of Bifurcation Theory and An Application of a Hopf Bifucation in Cardiac Arrythmias")
10/17/01 Math Circle 30
10/16/01 Undergraduate Colloquium
(Jim Carlson - "Elliptical Curves")
10/16/01 GSAC Colloquium
(Matthew Rudd - "An Introduction to Evolution Equations")
10/10/01 Math Circle 33
10/10/01 Steering Committee Meeting 6
10/9/01 Undergraduate Colloquium
(Hugo Rossi - "The Regular Solids, Their Symmetry Groups, and the Icosahedron in Particular")
10/9/01 GSAC Colloquium
(Brynja Kohler - "An Exploration of Immunological Memory Through Mathematical Models")
10/3/01 Math Circle
(First session of the Math Circle)
41
10/2/01 Undergraduate Colloquium
(Nat Smale - "Minimal Surfaces and the Calculus of Variations")
10/2/01 GSAC Colloquium
(Paul Roberts - "Intersection Theory and Commutative Algebra")
9/25/01 Undergraduate Colloquium
(Gordan Savin - "Square and Triangular Numbers and Pell Equations")
9/25/01 GSAC Colloquium
(Robert Guy - "The Stokes Paradox")
9/19/01 Math Circle Organizational Meeting 17
9/18/01 Undergraduate Colloquium
(Jim White - "Prepare for the Career Fair")
9/18/01 GSAC Colloquium
(Fumitoshi Sato - "Symmetric Functions")
9/11/01 Undergraduate Colloquium
(Fred Adler - "Mathematical Bioeconomics and the Tragedy of the Commons")
9/11/01 GSAC Colloquium
(Peter Trapa - "Representations of Sn and GLn")
9/4/01 Undergraduate Colloquium
(Peter Trapa - "Counting to n! with Tableaux")
9/4/01 GSAC Colloquium
(Aaron Bertram, Graeme Milton, Cindi Phillips, and Anurag Singh - "Preparing a Successful Grant Proposal")
8/28/01 Undergraduate Colloquium
(Klaus Schmitt - "Cayley's Problems and Newton Iterations")
8/27/01 GSAC Colloquium
(Eric Cytrynbaum - "Periodic Stimulus of the Single Cell")
8/21/01 Steering Committee Meeting 9
8/14/01 Steering Committee Meeting 7
6/27/01 Steering Committee Meeting 5
6/6/01 Math Circle Organizational Meeting 5
5/2/01 Steering Committee Meeting
4/30/01 Outreach Committee Meeting
4/18/01 Steering Committee Meeting 4
4/4/01 Outreach Committee Meeting
3/7/01 Steering Committee Meeting 6
2/9/01 Steering Committee Meeting
2/7/01 Steering Committee Meeting 6
12/20/00 VIGRE Organizational Meeting
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