Maths student staff council meeting

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Hello to all maths students,

Does anyone have any points or questions that they would like me to bring up at the student staff council meeting next week? If so, post here or email me on aapn.
I'm an honours rep, but I'm interested to hear about comments about any of the MT courses.

One thing I'm interested to hear is what people think of the switch of some recommended books from short loan (4 hours) to 3 day loans. Is this good, bad or are you indifferent to the change?

regards,

Alasdair Nicol

[househunter]

Tell them about the maths forum, I emailed another rep about it, I hope he brings it up at the meeting.

http://maths.stand-forums.co.uk

[Cygnus]

Al, hows about a timetable of when classes are run in microlab like the physics dept have so we know if we're not gonna get work done cos its full of freshers or something...

A maths forum? one word..

nerdtastic

[househunter]

thanks for the constructive input.

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Cygnus - the timetable thing is a good idea, both from your point of view, and so that people don't use machines when others need them for their classes.

Househunter - yes I'll mention the forum to the meeting. It could be really useful once it fills up with people.

Any other suggestions? I know there's many other mathematicians that frequent the sinner - just look at the length of the Olsen threads.

[Malcolm]

I did MT1001 last semester (and failed )

There wasn't enough support material e.g. they never released worked solutions for the tutorial sheets, even last thing before the exam.

On the subject of the exam, only one specimen paper was provided with answers - to put a long story short, all we had was notes with little application, and not enough study of exam type questions. And a lot of steps were missed out in the worked examples we were given during lectures.

Hope that helps.

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[Frank]

What a failure of a son :p

No complaints really, though Campbell rambles a bit in 2005. He has a fascinated look when talking about 'Big Ohs' and a scared one when telling us some algorithms can go on and on for ever.

But not really anything to bring up at a meeting.



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[m]

MT2002 past paper solutions would be nice. There was none last year and I reckon it would be helpful for people doing it in the next years. Also organised tutorial solutions for most subjects would be helpful for studying most subjects. Actually past paper solutions for all subjects would be great.

[Keith]

Paraphrasing Frank from 16:41, 7th Mar 2006

Campbell has a scared look when telling us some algorithms can go on and on for ever.

For better or worse, that is... bad news!

Also, don't you think he looks like barney the dog? I think its the similar hairstyle.

[Atangaladhion]

I hope they ask me what people have said before they ask you Alasdair.


If anyone has anything specific to any of the following modules, I'll happily bring them up as I'm taking these modules too so probably know how you feel.

Real Analysis
Finite Fields
Geometry and Topology
Fractal Geometry
Semigroups

my e-mail address is my username at hotmail.com

I'll let Alasdair say things about other subjects seeing as he posted this thread.

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Lars Olsen is not the second coming of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ was the first coming of Lars Olsen.

[womble chris]

maybe remaining the maths department the geek department?

[Malcolm]

Quoting Frank from 16:41, 7th Mar 2006
What a failure of a son :p

Yes Father! I'm getting support for it, I'll pass in September, don't worry

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[Rectalprobe]

-Financial is a bit boring - he needs to make it more interesting and give us more examples as the tut sheets seem to be very very vague.

-Computing is a good course - bit more directions in letures would be nice but besides that a very good, challenging course.

-Dynamical systems seems, for the most part, straight forward but he really needs to explain where he gets things from and how he does diagrams etc. A LOT more explanation for some parts of the course aswell!