MATHCAMP 2010

Basic Information

• Location: Helsinki, Economicum building, seminar room 3-4
• Time: August 16-25, 2010
  • Time schedule (PDF)
• Application form
  • Deadline for applications: August 9, 2010
• List of Participants (PDF)
• Course description: The course is a revision course in mathematics, aimed primarily for new doctoral students in economics. It is designed to offer a solid mathematical base for the following doctoral courses in economics. The course is very strongly recommended to every new doctoral student.
• Preliminary course outline

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Teaching staff

• Instructor: Professor Mitri Kitti (Aalto University School of Economics)
   
• Teaching assistant: Suvi Vasama (Aalto University School of Economics)

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Course material

handouts (by Juuso Välimäki)

• Logic, sets, and orders

• Elementary analysis

• Linear algebra

• Multivariate calculus

• Concavity

• Optimization

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Lecture notes

• Lecture notes
• Handouts

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Problem sets

• Problem set 1
• Problem set 1 solutions
• Problem set 2
• Problem set 2 solutions
• Problem set 3
• Problem set 3 solutions

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Course evaluation

• Link to form (to be added here later)

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Travel Grants

• The Society for economics professors and docents in Finland (Kansantaloustieteen professorien ja dosenttien yhdistys ry) gives travel grants to doctoral economics students, please see FDPE website Financial Aid.

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