Academic Program

Students are given extensive ‘problem sets’. The problems range in difficulty and challenge even the most gifted of this highly-talented group. It is always a great pleasure to observe the satisfaction they get from solving a really difficult problem.

Topics in the past have included:

• Number Theory
• Topology
• Cryptography
• Combinatorics
  
• Chaos Theory
• Projective Geometry
• Game Theory
• Knot Theory
  

Each course has a lecture and tutorial each day. Tutorial groups are small (6 to 8 students). Students are encouraged to explore at their own pace and also to engage in discussions, conjectures as well as detailed rigourous proofs.

Each year there is also a special mathematics lecture from a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences.