Post Your Summer/Fall 2012 Class Schedules

[clope023]

Not really, this is only for the fall semester and more or less the standard course load for our program..

WTF...

I've taken a lot of those courses and I couldn't imagine doing them all together.

 

[jrjack]

Summer:
Work full time,
Gen Ed...Macroeconomics

Fall:
Continue working full time,
Linear Algebra
Calc-based Physics 1 (online, including lab)

Become Daddy of twin boys!

 

[Jorriss]

WTF...

I've taken a lot of those courses and I couldn't imagine doing them all together.

Ehhh, I took graduate stat mech and math methods, classical mechanics, probability and quantum chemistry in one quarter and had time to spare. The thing is, if you are of normal intelligence like most of us, you exchange a deep understanding from taking a few classes to a superficial understanding by taking a lot.

 

[Nano-Passion]

Not really, this is only for the fall semester and more or less the standard course load for our program..

We register all our courses for the whole year during the summer and I'm planning to take
Real Analysis
PDE II
Applied Non-Linear PDEs
Classical Mechanics
Diff. Geometry
Stat Mech./ HEP

for next spring

Sounds impressive, sounds like you have a solid math foundation to be able to take that workload. What country do you reside in?

 

[Ans426]

Sounds impressive, sounds like you have a solid math foundation to be able to take that workload. What country do you reside in?

I'm a Physics major and I didn't intentionally take so many Maths courses...

Turns out that the program is structured weirdly and we need to take more (Almost a double!) Maths course than Physics course this year..
Most of the Physics elective conflict and so I had to take more Maths as my elective courses instead

 

[Nano-Passion]

I'm a Physics major and I didn't intentionally take so many Maths courses...

Turns out that the program is structured weirdly and we need to take more (Almost a double!) Maths course than Physics course this year..

I find that pretty cool lol. What university is this?

 

[Rackhir]

Southern american over here, so my march-july semester would be the equivalent i guess. So:
Physics 4 (Optics and QM, pretty totally exited about this one)
Thermodynamics(awesome subject, horrible proffesor)
Applied Mechanics(just regular mechanics applied to machines)
Computational Methods 1 (numerical methods)

So, that's pretty much the first semester of the third year of ME in Argentina

 

[Robert1986]

Exactly what class is algebra I?

Abstract Algebra I

 

[R.P.F.]

Become Daddy of twin boys!

Wow. Congratulations!

 

[Broccoli21]

I'm a rising sophmore and i'll be taking:
Summer:
- Research in linear algebra
- Intro Functional Analysis

Fall:
- Statistical Mechanics
- Differential Geometry
- Algebra I
- PDEs
- Complex Analysis
- Senior-level Electrodynamics
- Epistemology

 

[jbmiller]

Wow, where are all the high schoolers? I was pretty interested in hearing some of their schedules... );

 

[jrjack]

Wow. Congratulations!

Thanks.

 

[Isaiah Gray]

Summer: Research

Fall:

Upper-division Mechanics
Methods of Experimental Physics 1
Sequences, Series, and Foundations
Partial Differential Equations 1

This fall is going to be so much fun.

 

[jpeabody]

Summer:
-Math REU: Embeddings of Graphs

Fall:
-Topology
-Knot Theory
-Research Topics Seminar
-Psychology of Crime (GE)
-Violent Weather (GE)

 

[mege]

2 more years to go...

Summer:
Matrix Theory (Linear Algebra)

Fall:
Intro Physics III - Modern Physics
Intro Physics III Lab
Intro to Astronomy
Intro Astro Lab
German II
Research

 

[Herricane]

Junior Year - Fall

Analytical mechanics
E&M I
Math Methods
Electronics for scientists
And a couple of one credit classes for fun/fitness

 

[LBloom]

Topology & Geometry (Grad intro)
Lie Groups/Algebra for Physics (Grad)
Analysis
Math Research (for an eventual thesis)
20th century british lit.

Currently debating whether I should drop the analysis for physics research credit. It certainly would be an interesting schedule, but it all depends on how summer research goes.

 

[swashtecher]

Going to be a sophomore this fall:
Summer: research internship at physics lab working with a neutrino detector
Fall:
Differential Equations
Introductory Methods of Applied Mathematics
Waves
Thermodynamics
Introduction to Computer Programming

 

[Dembadon]

Summer 2012:

Work full-time.

Fall 2012:

MATH 331 GROUPS, RINGS AND FIELDS (Hungerford)
Elementary structure of groups, rings and fields, including homomorphisms, automorphisms, normal subgroups, and ideals.

MATH 310 INTRODUCTION TO ANALYSIS I (Bartle & Sherbert)
An examination of the theory of calculus of functions of one variable with emphasis on rigorously proving theorems about real numbers, convergence, continuity, differentiation and integration.

CS 202 COMPUTER SCIENCE II (2nd semester with C++, but this time in Linux with more complex programs)
Emphasis on problem solving and program development techniques. Typical numerical and non-numerical problems are examined. Design, implementation, and abstraction principles of elementary data structures.

WMST 101 INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN'S STUDIES
Interdisciplinary analysis of women in culture and society from historical and cross-cultural perspectives. (Diversity course)

Work part-time.

 

[radium]

I will be doing a materials REU in the summer and in the fall I will be taking:
Mathematical methods of Physics (grad class)
Quantum Mechanics I
Thermodynamics and Introduction to Statistical Mechanics and Kinetic Theory
I will be a junior. I took the E&M sequence this year as a sophomore.

 

[Genericcoder]

Summer:
Mostly self learning before going to first year university @ fall.
Those are my reading list that I hopefully want to finish before going to university.
I am not sure if I will finish all of them. I already finished calculus I,but I want to cover it in more rigorous fashion in summer.
Spivak calculus book
Stewart calculus book
A rigorous book in algebra
University Physics with modern Physics
Chemistry The central science edition

Plus some programming projects.

 

[ThatTallGirl]

Summer:
Nuclear physics REU

Fall:
Intro Geology (for fun/staying full time)
Acoustics
Quantum II
Stat Thermal
TAing 3 sections of intro mechanics lab

 

[nlsherrill]

Summer

Statistics both sessions



Fall
E&M 1(excited!)
Numerical Analysis 1
Grad Linear Algebra
Real analysis 2(may drop, thought 1 wasn't that interesting)
Intro to scientific programming(learning how to use Python for solving physics problems)

 

[lompocus]

Will be a sophomore mechanical engineering major

Summer
Working part time, possibly full time though that is unlikely (local place in hometown, nothing like an engineering internship or REU, so there's some flexibility); other stuff related to software that, with some luck, I'll be ready to begin in earnest by the summer

Fall (Quarter)
* Yet another part of the university humanities requirements; atm not sure which course I will take (though it will be religious in subject matter)
* E&M&Lab (because I like ampersands)
* Statics
* Material & Manufacturing Processes & Lab (more ampersands)
* Numerical Methods XOR first of two probability & stats courses XOR Real analysis XOR Advanced linear algebra; likely, I'll take the first one
* Other stuff + My situation regarding my department's computer science requirement is strange, but odds are I'll be taking the engineer's programming course as well...

Right now, I'm thinking "Oh, this will be slightly less stressful than this quarter!" However, I said the same the previous two quarters, thus I piled on more courses each quarter (I have avoided doing that next quarter :P). We shall see whether I'm right or not (experience says I'm wrong)...

*Edit* I suddenly feel compelled to ask this question. Unlike this year, I will likely have room for no more than 4 math courses next year. Having yet to meet a math prof. regarding this question (for silly reasons), I turn to you guys: what did you guys take and enjoy sophomore year? (The lower-division stuff has been completed w/ exception of abstract algebra, so I have quite a few options)

 

[Dustinsfl]

Fall 2012:

Analysis 1
Adv ODEs
Fourier Series & Integral Transforms
Adv Engineering Analysis 1

 

[Hobin]

I just happened to get confused even more. Here in the US we generally take around 4 classes per semester, and the semester in America is based on about a 3.5-4 month period.

Huh. Maybe we just work harder around here, I don't know.

 

[battousai]

Summer

Statistics both sessions



Fall
E&M 1(excited!)
Numerical Analysis 1
Grad Linear Algebra
Real analysis 2(may drop, thought 1 wasn't that interesting)
Intro to scientific programming(learning how to use Python for solving physics problems)

what is covered in graduate linear algebra? I've taken the undergrad linear algebra sequence, which goes all the way to jordan canonical form. my school doesn't offer a graduate sequence, which made me wonder.

 

[chiro]

what is covered in graduate linear algebra? I've taken the undergrad linear algebra sequence, which goes all the way to jordan canonical form. my school doesn't offer a graduate sequence, which made me wonder.

While courses are going to by institution, department, and program specific, I would say that one thing that you probably won't have learned is that of pseudo-inverses (in a general way) as well as 'infinite-operators' that are used in functional analysis.

 

[cfddude123]

Fall 2012 (Last semester as an undergrad!):
Graduate PDEs
Graduate Dynamical Systems
Graduate Real Analysis(Measure Theory), if I can get into it, otherwise Nonlinear Programming or Stochastic Processes
Numerical Fluid Dynamics

 

[Barre]

Some of you take fairly advanced courses in mathematics over summer. In what country do you live? Will you be taking them at a university? I've searched a bit for such courses in Scandinavia, and found nothing.

Anyway, contributing.

Summer 2012:
Work, self-study of commutative algebra

Fall 2012:
Graduate Algorithms course
Mathematical methods in image analysis
Intro to stochastic processes