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Timetable of Induction and Pre-sessional Classes
Date
Time
Tuesday
09.00 –
20th Sept
10.00
Tuesday
12.00–
20th Sept
15.00
Wednesday
10.00-
21st Sept
Activity
Welcome talks
Venue
Peoples Palace:
Great Hall
Pre-sessional Class 1 – Calculus
David Sizer LT,
Bancroft Building
Skeel LT, Peoples
Careers talk (1 of 3)
11.00
Palace
15.30-
The Octagon,
Enrolment
17.30
Queens Building
Thursday
10.00-
Pre-sessional Class 2 – Matrix
David Sizer LT,
22nd Sept
13.00
Algebra (1 of 2)
Bancroft Building
13.00-
Skeel LT, Peoples
Careers talk (2 of 3)
14.00
Palace
Friday
10.00-
Pre-sessional Class 3 – Matrix
David Sizer LT,
23rd Sept
13.00
Algebra (2 of 2)
Bancroft Building
Monday
09:00-
ALT,
Careers talk (3 of 3)
26th Sept
10:00
Tuesday
09.00-
Pre-sessional Class 4 –
3.24,
27th Sept
12.00
Statistics (1 of 2)
Engineering
Arts One
Date
Time
Wednesday 28th
10:00-
Sept
11:00
Activity
Excel classes (1 of 3)
Venue
1.15a,
Bancroft Building
14.00-
Pre-sessional Class 5 –
2.40,
16.00
Statistics (2 of 2)
Bancroft Building
Thursday
10:00-
Excel classes (2 of 3)
1.15a,
29th Sept
12:00
Friday
10:00-
30th Sept
12:00
Bancroft Building
Excel classes (3 of 3)
Pre-sessional Syllabi
Pre-sessional 1: Matrix Algebra
Idempotent matrix
Rank of a matrix
Determinant of a matrix
Characteristic vector
Diagonalisation and spectral decomposition
Trace of a matrix
Pre-sessional 2: Statistics
Probability and Distribution theory
Random variables
Cumulative distribution function
Descriptive Statistics
Probability distribution
1.23,
Bancroft Building
Pre-sessional 3: Calculus
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the difference quotient
derivatives
increasing and decreasing functions
optimization
2nd and 3rd derivative
points of inflection
economic applications
Pre-sessional reference materials:
1. G. Renshaw, Maths for Economics, Oxford (2012)
2. William H. Greene, Econometric Analysis, Pearson Higher Ed, 2011
Appendices A and B.
Pre-sessional classes will be taught by Dr. Leon Vinokur
([email protected]).