Does anyone here know anything about the REU-like program the NSA is running? The director's summer program? I was wondering if anyone heard of it or maybe knows someone who was in it. What is your opinion of it?
Silence usually means the sites are still considering some positions (as in, they're slowly going down their preference list while people accept or reject their offer until all positions are filled). Either you're somewhere on that list and they might get to you soon or you're not and they're...
Hi. I am looking into summer programs for the upcoming summer. I am interested in programs with focus in math and/or computer science. Last summer I did a physics REU at Columbia, and this summer I was hoping to maybe do a program somewhere in Europe. Maybe Cambridge, ETH, or Oxford or some...
Thank you for the help. I've decided to take the course taught with Brown/Churchill. Which is good because the other class does fit my schedule.
Hopefully I'll have the chance to take a second course in complex analysis (math isn't my primary major) and get the chance to cover more complex...
Thanks everyone for your inputs. It seems another professor with whom I wouldn't mind taking this course is teaching using Axler. I've heard good things about Axler too. It's supposed to be very revolutionary and notably abstract. Interestingly, it avoids mentioning the idea of a matrix at all...
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I am signing up to take my first course in complex analysis this upcoming semester at my university. One of the professors with whom I am interested in taking the class is using Complex Analysis 2nd edition by Bak & Newman and the other one is using Complex Variables & Applications 7th...
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I am signing up to take a second course in linear algebra this upcoming semester at my university. Among the professors with whom I would like to take the class, one is using one book and the rest another. The one is using Linear Algebra & It's Applications 4th edition by Gilbert Strang...
How about the quality of classes in upper div math and physics? How do they compare at each institution? Thus far, I have been very impressed by the quality of teaching in my upper div math courses in Berkeley.
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For the past year, I spent my freshman year in college at UC Berkeley studying math and physics. Since tuition was expensive for out-of-state and because I wanted to go to the East, I applied for transfer. I'm now debating whether to stay at Berkeley or whether to go to Columbia...
I applied to seven. I got one rejection and was bummed, but then soon after I got offered a position at Columbia's Nevis labs program. I accepted it and withdrew my other applications since I couldn't accept their offer any more and I wouldn't have picked those over Columbia's. I'm rather...