Instructor: Souvik Dhara

Class schedule: Mondays and Wednesdays, 2:30pm - 4:00pm, Room no. 2-147

Email: sdhara@mit.edu, Office: 2-232B. Use this calender to schedule a meeting.

Communication Specialist: Malcah Effron (Office: E18-228K, Email: meffron@mit.edu) Use Calendly to schedule a meeting.

Description

Participants read and present research material from Discrete mathematics and related topics. The goal is to learn to communicate mathematical ideas both in terms of presentation and writing. Instruction and practice in written and oral communication provided. Enrollment limited.

Each student will give three talks. The first two are 35 minutes chalkboard talks. The final one is a 20 minute slide presentation (based on the final report). Before the first talk, students must schedule a 1-hour meeting with me and Malcah Effron, to practice their talk. A final report has to be submitted at the end of the course. There are two mandatory preliminary report submissions, on which, feedback will be provided. There will also be two quizes based on the topics covered in the course.

There will be four workshops run by communication specialist Malcah Effron. Two workshops will be on presentation, one on writing, and one peer-review session.

Syllabus

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