I finished calculus and still have a year or more in high school

The mathematics department offers a special honors sequence MATH 340-341 (Fall-Spring) which covers the material of the core sophomore (post-calculus) math courses (multivariable caclulus, linear algebra and differential equations) in an honors setting, with enrichment. This sequence is only available to students who have passed out of Calculus I and II (e.g., with a 4 or 5 on the Calculus BC Advanced Placement Test). The sequence is available by invitation only from the math department and it is open only to very strong freshman (MATH SAT at least 750) and special high school students.

The math department schedules one of the sections of this course to meet late Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, for the specific reason that it wants the course available to the small number of exceptional high school students who might want to take this course here while still in high school. If you might be in this category, by all means discuss the possibility with your high school advisor, and with the Coordinator of Undergraduate Advising in Mathematics ().

The MATH 340-341 sequence is not the right sequence for most students, but for those able to take advantage, it is a great head start. NOTE: this course is a lot of work. Do not sign up as a high school student unless you are both capable and motivated.

Exceptional math/science/computer science high school students should also consult the Information for prospective math/science/computer science students provided by CMPS (the College of Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences), particularly the section on "Accelerating at Maryland".

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  • Predictive Science and Deep Learning - A Bright Future or an Odd Couple?

    Speaker: Wolfgang Dahmen (Aachen, University of South Carolina) - https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/mathematics/our_people/directory/dahmen_wolfgang.php

    When: Wed, September 20, 2023 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • The optimal paper Moebius band

    Speaker: Richard Schwartz (Brown University) - https://www.math.brown.edu/reschwar/

    When: Fri, September 29, 2023 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Riehl (TBA)

    Speaker: Emily Riehl (Johns Hopkins University) - https://math.jhu.edu/~eriehl/

    When: Fri, October 6, 2023 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Categorification and geometry

    Speaker: Lars Hesselholt (Nagoya University) - https://www.math.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~larsh/

    When: Fri, October 13, 2023 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Mathematics Around the Heisenberg Group

    Speaker: Roger Howe (Yale University) - https://www.norbertwiener.umd.edu/fft/2023/Speakers/Roger_Howe.html

    When: Thu, October 26, 2023 - 3:45pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Decoding Time's Mysteries for Better Predictions

    Speaker: James Howard (Johns Hopkins University) - https://www.norbertwiener.umd.edu/fft/2023/Speakers/James_Howard.html

    When: Thu, October 26, 2023 - 6:45pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • A tale of two invariants

    Speaker: Paul Feehan (Rutgers) - https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~feehan/

    When: Wed, November 15, 2023 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Using logic to study homeomorphism groups

    Speaker: Thomas Koberda (University of Virginia) - https://sites.google.com/view/koberdat

    When: Wed, November 29, 2023 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Generative Models for Implicit Distribution Estimation: a Statistical Perspective

    Speaker: Yun Yang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) - https://sites.google.com/site/yunyangstat/

    When: Thu, January 25, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Video Imputation and Prediction Methods with Applications in Space Weather

    Speaker: Yang Chen (University of Michigan) - https://yangchenfunstatistics.github.io/yangchen.github.io/

    When: Tue, January 30, 2024 - 4:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Arboreal Galois groups: an introduction

    Speaker: Robert Benedetto (Amherst College) - https://rlbenedetto.people.amherst.edu/

    When: Wed, February 7, 2024 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Higher theta series

    Speaker: Zhiwei Yun (MIT) - https://math.mit.edu/~zyun/

    When: Wed, February 28, 2024 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Random lattices and their applications in number theory, geometry and statistical mechanics

    Speaker: Jens Marklof (School of Mathematics, University of Bristol) - https://www.bristol.ac.uk/people/person/Jens-Marklof-6eb63e14-a018-4833-9cf8-b95272b5a09e/

    When: Fri, March 1, 2024 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • TBA

    Speaker: Svetlana Jitomirskaya (University of California, Berkeley) - https://math.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/svetlana-jitomirskaya

    When: Thu, March 14, 2024 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Instantaneous everywhere-blowup of parabolic stochastic PDEs

    Speaker: Davar Khoshnevisan (University of Utah) - http://www.math.utah.edu/~davar/

    When: Wed, April 3, 2024 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206