VIGRE2 Vertical Intergration of Research and Education Department of Mathematics, University of Utah

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This course is required of all first-year graduate students in the fall semester. It involves assigned reading of articles, and the conversion of one article (of the students' choice) into a talk with slides. Faculty will lecture on the following topics:
  1. Writing skills: general writing skills, writing a paper, revising a draft, publishing a paper.

  2. Speaking skills: general speaking skills, preparing a talk, preparing a slide presentation.

  3. Computer skills: Unix/Linux environment, LaTeX and BIBTEX, SLITEX, Matlab, Maple.
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