MATHCAMP 2011

Basic Information

• Location: Helsinki, Economicum building, seminar room 3-4 and Alexandria building, room K130
• Time: August 22 - September 1, 2011
  • Time schedule
• Application form
  • Deadline for applications: August 15, 2011
• List of Participants
• 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: Doctor Mitri Kitti (University of Turku)
   
• Teaching assistant: Saara Hämäläinen (University of Helsinki)

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Course material

Handouts (by Juuso Välimäki)

• Logic, sets, and orders (pdf)
• Elementary analysis (pdf)
• Linear algebra (pdf)
• Multivariate calculus (pdf)
• Concavity (pdf)
• Optimization (pdf)

Lecture notes

• Slides (pdf)

• Slides as handouts, 8 slides per page (pdf)

Problem sets

• Problem set 1 (pdf)
• Problem set 2 (pdf)
• Problem set 3 (pdf)
• Problem set 4 (pdf)

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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