Convergence is a summer camp organised by the Department of Mathematics, IIITD and Évariste, the Math Club of IIITD. The target audience is school students of classes 9-12. The selection for the summer camp will be done using an examination to test the students' mathematics and problem-solving skills. The top students will get the chance to attend the summer camp, where they will interact with like-minded students and learn a lot of interesting mathematics and computer science.
Through the summer camp, we aim to encourage high school students to explore mathematics in a greater scope than what their school syllabus demands.
With that kind of exposure, students will be able to appreciate the elegance, creativity and ingenuity behind different fields in mathematics and not just their computational resourcefulness.
The summer camp will help students:
→ enhance their problem-solving skills
→ figure out what their interests are, and
→ learn new mathematics, with a different perspective
The students will be attending lectures by researchers in mathematics or theoretical computer science, as well as senior undergraduates studying these subjects. They will also attend problem-solving tutorials after the lectures. Mathematics done in university and beyond is quite different from what is done in schools, in the sense that the focus is on asking fundamental questions and building vast intellectual cathedrals; through these sessions, we hope to give students a taste of this. It will help them gauge their interest in mathematics and theoretical computer science so that they can consider these options too while pursuing higher studies.
We believe that mathematics is more fun and fruitful when done in collaboration with like-minded people, which is attending the summer with other students will amplify the joy of studying mathematics manyfold (manifold? ;) )