UNIVERSITY BREAKS AND IMPORTANT DATES
Please visit the MIT Registrar Calendar for the latest dates:
- January 8 (Monday): IAP begins
- January 15 (Monday): Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (no classes)
- Feb 2 (Fri): Last Day of IAP
Overall Schedule
- Problem Session 1 (Tuesday January 16): Modular Arithmetic
- Problem Session 2 (Wednesday January 17): Euler and Fermat’s Theorems
- Problem Session 3 (Thursday January 18): More Elementary Number Theory
- Problem Set 1 (due Saturday, January 20)
- Lecture 1 (Tuesday January 23): Quadratic Residues, Primitive Roots
- Lecture 2 (Wednesday January 24): Integers, Prime Numbers, and More
- Lecture 3 (Thursday January 25): Group Theory; with a focus on the previous content and Elliptic Curves
- Problem Set 2 (due Friday, January 26)
- Lecture 4 (Tuesday January 30): Introduction to Cryptography
- Lecture 5 (Wednesday January 31): Signal processing and Fourier analysis on finite abelian groups
- Lecture 6 (Thursday, February 1): Wrap Up & Results in Theoretical Computer Science.
- Problem Set 3(due Friday, February 2)