18.204 Spring 2020

Spring 2020, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Class meetings: Mondays and Wednesdays 2:30pm–4:00pm in 2-146 (before March 14, 2020) and at Zoom online (after March 14, 2020)
Instructor: Zilin Jiang
Communication specialist: Malcah Effron

Course description

Seminar in combinatorics, graph theory, and discrete mathematics in general. Participants read and present papers from recent mathematics literature. Instruction and practice in written and oral communication provided. Enrollment limited.

Grading

2 chalkboard presentations worth 20% each, 1 slides presentation 15%, 2 in-class take-home midterms 10% each, and the term paper 25%. Attendance policy: Without a valid excuse such as illness, failure to show up at one’s own talk or missing more than 3 classes results an immediate failure.

Stellar/Gradebook

Schedule

MW
2/3Introduction2/5Presentation workshop
2/10Ziad Mansour
Nelson Niu
2/12Rachel Leighton
Discussion
T 2/18Jesus Herrera
Justin Lim
2/19Cynthia Liu
Pavle Lazarevic
2/24Jason Lu
Lingjie Mei
2/26Sichen Chao
Brian Gu
3/2Luis Garcia
Sarah Wang
3/4William Nash
Aleksejs Popovs
3/9Ziad Mansour
Aleksejs Popovs
3/11Jason Lu
Sarah Wang
3/16Canceled3/18Canceled
3/23No class (Spring vacation)3/25No class (Spring vacation)
3/30Justin Lim
Lingjie Mei
4/1Jesus Herrera
Writing workshop
4/6Rachel Leighton
Cynthia Liu
4/8Brian Gu
Pavle Lazarevic
4/13Sichen Chao
Nelson Niu
4/15Luis Garcia
William Nash
4/20No class (Patriots’ Day)4/22Brian Gu
Luis Garcia
William Nash
4/27Lingjie Mei
Justin Lim
Jason Lu
4/29Rachel Leighton
Cynthia Liu
Sarah Wang
5/4Jesus Herrera
Ziad Mansour
Aleksejs Popovs
5/6Sichen Chao
Pavle Lazarevic
Nelson Niu
5/11Peer critique