MATH 480: Senior Seminar in Mathematics    

First, a list of important class resources:

• Syllabus and course description
• Here is a rubric that might give you some idea as to what I look for in high-quality mathematical writing.
• Here is a set of guidelines for your written paper.

Day-by-day goings-on:

• Wednesday, August 19th. First day of class; discussion of the syllabus and the expectations for the course.
• Wednesday, August 26th. Discussion on finding and evaluating sources (using this exercise).
• Wednesday, September 2nd. Faculty Talk 1: Mark McClure, UNC Asheville Department of Mathematics, Complex dynamics of Weierstrass elliptic functions
• Wednesday, September 9th. Faculty Talk 2: David Peifer, UNC Asheville Department of Mathematics, Max Dehn: a life
• Wednesday, September 16th. Faculty Talk 3: David Steele, UNC Asheville Department of Mathematics, A few of my favorite things (from ancient Greek mathematics); your initial survey of three topics due (and you need to decide by now which one you will be presenting on!)
• Wednesday, September 23rd. Faculty Talk 4: Richard Montgomery, University of California, Santa Cruz Department of Mathematics, Compactifying Taylor series
• Wednesday, September 30th. Faculty Talk 5: Jimin Lee, UNC Asheville Department of Mathematics, Naughty or nice?
• Wednesday, October 7th. In-class abstract writing exercise; here is a handout on writing abstracts which might come in handy.
• Wednesday, October 14th. No class, but a rough draft of your paper is due.
• Wednesday, October 21st. In-class peer review; your abstracts are due.
• Wednesday, October 28th. Tentatively no class; we may need the time for student talks, if more people register for the course.
• Wednesday, November 4th. Student Talks I: Ben Radford, The Iterated Prisoners Dilemma and Lucas Siegel, Cellular automata and the origins of complexity
• Wednesday, November 11th. Student Talks II: Jessica Dawson, Abstract architecture and Rebecca Edmonds, A glimpse into the Four-Color Theorem
• Wednesday, November 18th. Student talks III: Ben Filip, When regression goes awry and Corey Jones, Discrete homotopy covers of metric spaces
• Wednesday, November 25th. Thanksgiving Break: no class!
• Wednesday, December 2nd. No class, but the final draft of your paper is due.

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