From Evans Harrell, Graduate Director
Dear faculty,
As you know, the Research Horizons seminar is a VIGRE-supported effort to
get graduate students involved in research by providing lectures at an
introductory level. We have often seen disappointingly few students
in attendance, and this situation will probably be exacerbated in January,
because a portion of the target audience will be focusing on the Comprehensive
Exams.
We are thinking of structuring the RH seminar differently in January to
revitalize it and attract some of the students studying for the
Comps. The theme of the month would be {\it Instructive Examples}. We have
in mind a selection of faculty presenting entertaining or useful examples
which either illustrate familiar theorems of the kinds learned early in
graduate school or show how those theorems are applied in practice.
We are asking for volunteers to present their favorite instructive
examples. By the way, the time allotted need not be a full hour -
different volunteers could present a few examples in the same seminar.
Mason Porter is the organizer of the RH seminar this Academic Year, so
volunteers could address themselves to mason@math.gatech.edu to get
on the schedule.
This could be a real benefit to the graduate program, and those of
us involved in it will be appreciative.