The central goal of the EDGE summer program is to strengthen the ability of women and minority students to successfully complete graduate programs in the mathematical sciences, and this is exactly what it did for me. For the first two weeks of the program, I was to attend real analysis and linear algebra lecture, taught by Dr. Candice Price and Dr. Alison Marr, respectively, and for the latter two weeks lectures covered measure theory and numerical linear algebra, taught by Dr. Lily Silverstein and Dr. Erica Graham. As lectures were in the morning, afternoons were spend in either a problem session, a colloquium talk, or a Matlab mini-course, taught by Dr. Kimberly Ayers.
After a month of learning material and working problems the EDGE 2019 cohort wrote the book recording all lecture notes taken and problems solved.
In addition to this we were to give a presentation related to material we had learned in the program. Below you find the slides from my presentation.
Besides all the math we did, the program incorporates several social events (pictured below), which allowed for strong bonds to be formed.