LECTURES:

• Instructor: Alex Usvyatsov.
• E-mail: alexus at math.ucla.edu.
• Office: MS 7336
• Class meets:
  • Lecture:
    MWF, 2:00 pm -2:50 pm in MS 5127 .
• Office hours:
  • Mondays, 3:30pm - 4:30p.

DISCUSSION SESSIONS:

• TA: Brett Hemenway.
• Meets:
  • Section 1a : T at 2:00pm - 2:50pm in MS 5127
    
• Office: MS 3915e
• Office hours:
  • Mondays, 1:00 - 2:00
  • Thursdays, 2:00 - 3:00

GENERAL INFO:

• There will be one midterms and a final exam.
• Each student must take and pass the final exam in order to pass the course.
• There will be HW assingments every week and several quizzes at discussion sessions throughout the quarter.
• Your final grade (assuming you have passed the final exam) will be calculated as follows:
  • Homework: 20 %
  • Quizzes: 10 %
  • Midterm: 30 % or 10 %
  • Final Exam: 40 % or 60 %
• Your final grade (assuming you have not taken the final or failed it) will be an "F".

MIDTERM SCHEDULE:

• Midterm 1 : Wednesday, 11/5/08 during regular class hours

HOMEWORK AND QUIZ POLICY:

• Homework is due the discussion session every Tuesday. No late homework will be accepted.
• The TA will grade a selected number of problems and mark your homework with a grade between 0 and 10. Graded homeworks will be returned to you at the discussion session.
• You may discuss the homework problems with your classmates but each student must write out his/her solutions individually. The solutions should be easily readable and comprehensible.
• 20% of the final grade will be based on the average of your homework grades. Two lowest homework scores will be dropped. An unsubmitted homework (or submitted after the deadline) will be marked as 0.
• There will be short quizzes at the beginning of several discussion sessions throughout the quarter. The TA will announce at each discussion session whether or not there will be a quizz the week after. The quizzes will contain questions similar (but not necessarily identical) to HW problems which have already been submitted.
• Quizzes will be marked with a grade between 0 and 10 and returned to you at the discussion sessions. 10% of your final grade will be based on the average of your quizzes grades. One lowest quiz score will be dropped. A student who misses a quiz will get 0. There will be no make-up quizzes.