Welcome! This is the official course website^TM for Math 636, Combinatorics.  Here are some course-related links:

• Course Syllabus
• Read Letters from past students
• Course Calendar
• Homework Assignments as they become available
• Lecture Notes for downloading as they become available
• Guidelines for the course project and poster presentation
• A link to Blackboard

Key Dates: (subject to change)

• First day of class: Thursday, August 29
• First exam: Thursday, October 17
• Poster proposal due: Tuesday, October 29
• Poster outline due: Tuesday, November 12
• Second exam: Tuesday, December 10
• Last day of class: Thursday, December 12
• Poster session: At scheduled final exam time

Office hours:

Prof. Chris is happy to help you with your homework and other class-related questions during office hours. Prof. Chris will be in his office starting at 3:35pm until class every Tuesday and Thursday. Prof. Chris is happy to meet with you at another time including after class; feel free to set up an appointment beforehand.

Combinatorics links:

• Answers the question: "What is aibohphobia?"
• A whole bunch of identities!
• The Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
• Nice writeups of combinatorial/geometrical mathematics
• Who named the Catalan numbers?

Additional Sources:

• Lecture notes on Enumerative Combinatorics, by Anna de Mier
• Proofs that really count
• Concrete Mathematics
• generatingfunctionology
• Enumerative Combinatorics, volumes I and II (both very advanced!)