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MASS 2007

Computability, Unsolvability and Randomness
Instructor: Steve Simpson, Professor of Mathematicss
TA: Jonas Kibelbek
Surfaces: Everything You Wanted to Know About Them
Instructor: Anatole Katok, Raymond N. Shibley Professor of Mathematics
TA: Vaughan Climenhaga
Topics in Probability Theory
Instructor: Omri Sarig, Associate Professor of Mathematics
TA: Arseny Egorov

Finite Fields and their Applications
Instructor: Gary Mullen, Professor of Mathematics
TA: Van Cyr
Aspects of Symmetry: from Representations to Quantum Field Theory
Instructor: Adrian Ocneanu, Professor of Mathematics
TA: Daniele Signori
Mathematical Theory of Waves
Instructor: Alberto Bressan, Professor of Mathematics
TA: Andriy Gogolev

Integer Partitions
Instructor: George Andrews, Evan Pugh Professor of Mathematics
TA: Uuye Otgonbayar
P-adic analysis in comparison with real
Instructor: Svetlana Katok, Professor of Mathematics
TA: Bryce Weaver
Geometry and Billiards
Instructor: Sergei Tabachnikov, Professor of Mathematics
TA: Gordana Stojanovic

Finite Fields and Applications
Instructor: Gary Mullen, Professor of Mathematics
TA: Carl Mummert
Introduction to Dynamical Systems
Instructor: Anatole Katok, Raymond N. Shibley Professor of Mathematics
TA: Travis Fisher
Differential Geometry and Topology of Curves and Surfaces
Instructor: Mohammad Ghomi, Visiting Associate Professor of Mathematics
TA: Robert Yuncken

Number Theory with Applications to Communication Networks
Instructor: Winnie Li, Professor of Mathematics
TA: Kimberly Schneider
Topological Dynamics
Instructor: Bryna Kra, Professor of Mathematics
TA: Ilie Ugracovici
Geometry and Relativity: An Introduction
Instructor: John Roe, Professor of Mathematics
TA: Robert Yuncken
MASS Seminar
Instructor: Sergei Tabachnikov, Professor of Mathematics

Elements of Fractal Geometry and Dynamics
Instructor: Yakov Pesin, Professor of Mathematics
TA: Danijela Damjanovic
Number Theory with a Tilt at Elliptic Curves
Instructor: Dale Brownawell, Professor of Mathematics
TA: Arsen Elkin
Intuitive Topology
Instructor: Sergei Tabachnikov, Professor of Mathematics
TA: Dan Genin
MASS Seminar
Instructor: Sergei Tabachnikov, Professor of Mathematics, Director of MASS Program

Combinatorics
Instructor: George Andrews, Evan Pugh Professor of Mathematics
TA: Alexander Chindiapine
Geometry and Relativity: An Introduction
Instructor: Nigel Higson, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics
TA: David Shoenthal
Mathematical Analysis of Fluid Flow
Instructor: Andrew Belmonte, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
TA: Dmitri Matsnev
MASS Seminar
Instructor: Sergei Tabachnikov, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Director of MASS Program

Finite Groups, Symmetry and Elements of Group Representations
Instructor: Adrian Ocneanu, Professor of Mathematics
TA: Bob Yuncken
Projective and Non-Euclidean Geometry
Instructor: Victor Nistor, Professor of Mathematics
TA: Nick Wright
Real and p-Adic Analysis
Instructor: Svetlana Katok, Professor of Mathematics
TA: Travis Fisher
MASS Seminar
Instructor: Sergei Tabachnikov, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Director of MASS Program

Topics in Number Theory
Instructor: Robert Vaughan, Professor of Mathematics
TA: Victoria Sadovskaya
Geometric Structures, Symmetry and Elements of Lie Groups
Instructor: Anatole Katok, Raymond N Shibley Professor of Mathematics
TA: Alistair Windsor
Mathematical Methods in Mechanics
Instructor: Mark Levi, Professor of Mathematics
TA: Roland Gunesch
MASS Seminar
Instructor: Jeff Raven

Number Theory: From Fermat's Little Theorem to his Last Theorem
Instructor: Ken Ono, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
TA: Jeff Raven
The Exponential Universe
Instructor: John Roe, Professor of Mathematics
TA: Heath Emerson
Functions and Dynamics in One Complex Variable
Instructor: Greg Swiatek, Professor of Mathematics
TA: Boris Kalinin
MASS Seminar
Instructors: Anatole Katok and Alexander Mezhirov

Arithmetic and Geometry of the Unimodular Group
Instructor: Svetlana Katok, Professor of Mathematics
TA: Alexander Mezhirov
Real Analysis
Instructor: Nigel Higson, Professor of Mathematics
TA: Dorin Dumitrascu
Explorations in Geometry
Instructor: Dmitri Burago, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, 1997 Sloan Fellow
TA: Eric Johnson, a winner of the 1996-97 Penn State Teaching Assistant award
MASS Seminar
Instructor: Anatoli Kouchnirenko

Explorations in Number Theory
Instructor: George Andrews, Evan Pugh Professor of Mathematics
TA Lawrence Sze
Introduction to Dynamical Systems
Instructor: Anatole Katok, Shibley Professor of Mathematics
TA: Serge Ferleger, 1997-98 Sloan Dissertation Fellow
Linear Algebra in Geometry
Instructor: Victor Nistor, Professor of Mathematics
TA: Alexander Mezhirov
MASS Seminar
Instructor: Anatoli Kouchnirenko