Lehman Student Summer Seminar 2018

Wednesdays 7:30-9:00 pm in Science Bldg Room 1101 with Professor Sormani

Prerequisites: Linear Algebra and Vector Calculus

Each lecture is independant so you may miss one without a problem.

Some will have guest speakers. After each meeting

you can try problems. Before each meeting you can

ask questions.

A possible schedule of topics, subject to change

depending on guest speakers

June 6 Jacobian Matrices, Change of Variables and Integration

June 13 Parametrized Surfaces and their Areas

June 20 Flux and Divergence

June 27 Conic Sections, Quadratic Forms, Second Order Expansion of Taylor Series

July 4 no meeting for the holiday

July 11 Mean Curvature and Minimal Surfaces

July 18 Final Meeting

Further exploration on your own:

Calculus on Manifolds by Spivak has a beautiful introduction to differential geometry.

Minimal Surfaces by Dorff has nice graphics you can explore.