Cambridge week 1
Posted by Martin Orr on Monday, 10 October 2005 at 16:11
Lectures started on Thursday. We have lectures 10-12 every day (including Saturday) and all in the same place, so it's very easy to keep track. It's somewhat odd not having any specific plan in the afternoons. We do have two 1-hour supervisions (with a research student) each week. My first is tomorrow and I have just gone across to the Centre for Mathematical Sciences to hand the work in for it. The CMS is an amazing new building in West Cambridge in seven layered pavilions and with a garden on the roof.
My courses this term are Algebra and Geometry, Numbers and Sets, and Differential Equations. So far there has been very little I have not done before.
I have also been to a Cambridge Union debate ("This House would rather warm up the planet than cool down the economy"), at which I tried to speak but only six speakers from the floor are accepted, and to squashes for the College and University Maths societies and the Russian Society. I also had lunch at my Tutor's on Sunday which is over two miles away - a long way in Cambridge.
-- Martin