Lectures: MWF 1:00, 2-105
Lecturer: Richard Stanley, 2-375, x3-7930, rstan@math.mit.edu
Lecturer office hours: MWF 2:00-3:00 or by appointment. For questions concerning the grading of a pset problem, please see one of the graders. For other questions and problems, see the lecturer.
Problem set graders: Whan Ghang (ghangh@mit.edu) and Chui Wai (Sam) Wong (王昭为) (samwong@mit.edu).
Text: Most of the material will come from the lecture notes Topics in Algebraic Combinatorics. Chapter 12 will be augmented throughout the term. The problems will be assigned from here. Some new problems may be added.
Summary of material: Mostly from the text.
Grading: Problem sets (25%) and three in-class hour exams (25% each). Dates of hour exams: March 12, April 13, May 11
Problem sets: Problem set assignments are available here. Problem sets are due at the end of lecture each Monday (or the first day of classes of that week if Monday is a holiday, or on Wednesday if there is an hour exam on Monday) for assignments of the previous week. If you are handing in a pset on time but not in class, please leave it in 2-108. Since solutions to problem sets will be made available shortly after the deadline for handing them in, in general late problem sets will not be accepted without a valid reason such as illness. A problem set that is one or two days late with a reason like "more time needed" might be accepted with a penalty, such as 15% off, if permission is granted before the pset is due. (In this case the posting of solutions will be delayed.) "Reasonable" collaboration with other students in the course is permitted on problem sets, but you should not just copy someone else's work or look up the solution from an outside source. This will be considered plagiarism.