Osman Akar


        Graduate Student at UCLA Mathematics Department

    Logistics of Discussion Math 70 - Lec1 (22S)

  • Instructor : Dr. Dmitrii Pedchenko
  • Teaching Assistant : Osman Akar
  • Discussion Time : Thursdays at 3-3.50pm in Boelter Hall 5436. Also, as long as technology allows, I plan to broadcast and record the live discussion sessions, and upload the recordings to the canvas. See Canvas for zoom links for the broadcasting. However, undeniably there will be technical errors throughout the quarter, so safest way to attend discussion is in
  • Zoom Link for Discussions : https://ucla.zoom.us/j/97956764307?pwd=emZrOVQvMzRXN0FhaDN2dzREUmV4QT09
    Meeting ID: 979 5676 4307, Passcode: 736970
  • email : oak@math.ucla.edu
  • Email Policy : Please do not send me math questions via email, instead I prefer you to come to my office hours. It is quite time consuming to answer math questions via email because I cannot write mathematical symbols easily.
  • Office Hours : You are most welcomed to attend the office hours, even when you don't have questions but you want to see other student's questions, or you just want to chat in general. I was also UCLA undergrad and I have spent almost 7 years here, so I have quite an experience of being a math major. I plan to hold both in person and online office hours (via zoom of course), but this is subject to change.
    • (Tentative) Thursdays 4-4.50pm in MS 7601 (Right after the discussion). Tentatively this is in person. In case we change the zoom OH, the link is the same as the Open OH link I put below.
    • Open Office Hours: Tuesdays at 4pm via Zoom.
    • Here is the zoom link for both OH, or here are meeting details:
      Meeting ID: 975 3284 3825, Passcode: 896714
      https://ucla.zoom.us/j/97532843825?pwd=RldkOElSd25Lc0pYT3R1NTgrbDBKQT09
    • You can read more information about Open OH here.
  • Useful Links (Free materials UCLA offers) :
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    • Microsoft Office is also free: click the link
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  • Worksheets: [W1]   [W2]   [W3]   [W4]