Math 3360, Old Announcements

• On Monday, April 27, Professor Billera's office hour will be shortened to 3:45-4:15. (Note: this was incorrectly stated previously.)

• The date of the second prelim has been changed to April 9. It will cover material from Section 9C through Section 20B (including RSA and the first two chapters in the coding supplement: homework assignments 5 through 9).

  Contact Prof. Billera by email if you have a conflict with the prelim on Thursday evening, April 9, and give the nature of the conflict. Conflicts with another prelim will be handled by an early prelim 5-6:30 PM the same day. Conflicts due to the Passover holiday will be handled by an early exam on Tuesday, April 7, 5:00-6:30 PM.

• Mingzhong's office hours are cancelled for March 31 and April 2. Instead, Margarita will hold an additional office hour Thursday afternoon, April 2, from 1:00 to 3:00 (in addition to the usual Wednesday 2:00-4:00).

• The homework assignments have been updated to reflect the change of date for the second prelim.
  In particular, Assignment 8 is due this Friday, March 27.

• The homework problems from section 1.6 of the coding supplement are not due until March 13.
  See Assignment 7. You should ignore any comments having to do with the computer program "Gap".

• On Monday March 9 only, Prof. Billera's office hour is changed to 4:30-5:30.

• The problems for section 9C have been moved to Assignment 5.

• The first prelim is Tuesday, February 17. Here is a copy of last year's prelim with solutions.
  (NB: this was a 50 minute in-class exam and was relatively easy.)

• On Tuesday, February 17 only, Mingzhong Cai's office hour is changed to 4:30-5:30.

• Prof. Billera has scheduled an extra office hour Tuesday, February 17, 3-4 PM.

• If you have a conflict with the prelim because of another prelim at the same time, send email to Prof. Billera by noon Monday, giving the nature of the conflict. He will send back the details of the conflict exam, which is to be given from 5-6:30 on the same day. Only those cleared in this manner will be able to take the early prelim.

• For Wednesday February 4 only, Prof. Billera's office hour will be 3:30-4:15.

• The first homework assignment is due on Friday, January 23.