Arizona Winter School 2002
Course Descriptions and Notes

• SHORTTITLE  Johan de Jong: Variation of Hodge Structures: some examples

  • Course and project description: html
  • Notes:
    • Lecture 1: pdf
    • Lecture 2: pdf
    • Lecture 3: pdf
    • Lecture 4: pdf
  • The students' project write up: dvi, ps, pdf.
  • The project participants were Jim Brown, Kirsten Eisentrager, Krzysztof Klosin, Jorge Pineiro, Mak Trifkovic, and Oliver Watson. Jim, Kirsten, Krzysztof, Jorge, and Oliver did the write up.

• SHORTTITLE  Pierre Deligne: Periods for the Fundamental Group

  • Course description: dvi, ps, pdf
  • Project description: dvi, ps, pdf
  • Preliminary notes by Kiran Kedlaya on Deligne's lectures, in pdf. A final version may eventually appear on Kedlaya's site.

• SHORTTITLE  Fernando Rodriguez Villegas: Periods and special values of L-functions

  • Course and project description: dvi, ps, pdf

• SHORTTITLE  Claire Voisin: Hodge theory and filtrations on Chow groups

  • Course and project description: html
  • Project references:
    • An extract from Voisin's book on Hodge theory (in French): ps
    • A paper by Kimura: ps

• SHORTTITLE  Professional development: Using technology in the undergraduate classroom

  • Descriptions: html
  • Deborah Hughes Hallet's lecture on “Mathematics for the Reluctant”:
    • Powerpoint slides on HIV testing
    • Excel spreadsheet on medical tests and Bayes' theorem
    • Science magazine article on “Communicating Statistical Information.”
  • Shuzo Takahashi's lecture on “Spreadsheet Software as a Teaching Tool for Introductory Mathematics Courses”:
    • Powerpoint slides
    • Zip archive with 7 spreadsheets and a Powerpoint file from the business Math course.
  • Bill Velez's lecture on “The Calculator Based Laboratory”:
    • The Texas Instruments web page on the Calculator Based Laboratory
  • Doug Ulmer's lecture on “A simple simulation to value stock options”:
    • Powerpoint slides on a model to value options
    • Zip archive of 3 Excel spreadsheets with simulations illustrating the model. (There are links to these spreadsheets in the slide show. These links will most likely not work on your computer, but you can manually open the spreadsheets.)
    • One-page note on risk-neutral valuation (also linked to in the slides): pdf