Recent Courses Taught by Professor Smith

• Math 385: Math for Elementary School Teachers MW 2:30--4 East Hall 1068, winter 2007
  Main Text: Parker and Baldridge, "Elementary Mathematics for Teachers", supplemented by the Singapore Primary mathematics texbooks 3A, 4A, 5A, 6A and workbook 5A.
  (These are sold in the local bookstores bundled together in one package, with the main textbook).
  Course description: Follow link to Math 385 from Math course catalog
• Math 732, Topics in Algebraic Geometry: Rational and Nearly Rational Varieties. Winter 2006.
  This was an intermediate level introduction to the study of projective varieties that share some of the birational features of projective space. Topics discussed included: rationality of surfaces and Castelnuovo's criterion (with lots of basic background material on surfaces following Beauville's book), rationality of varieties over non-algebraically closed fields, the Noether-Fano equations, superridigity and non-rationality of quartic threefolds, maximal centers, discrepancies, singularities of pairs, multiplier ideals, inversion of adjunction. A little bit on rationally connected varieties.
  Texts: Beauville's Complex Algebraic Surfaces and Koll\'ar, Smith, Corti, "Rational and Nearly Rational Varieties".
• Math 593, Algebra I. Fall 2005.
  This is the first year graduate level algebra course ("alpha course"). Here is the standard department Math 593 Syllabus; though I usually cover quite a few topics not on it, mostly basic commutative and homological algebra.
  Problem Sets;
  Exam I, with solutions;
  Exam II, with solutions;
  Final Exam, with solutions.
• Math 632: Schemes and cohomology of sheaves, Winter 2002, Winter 1997 (Michigan)
  Math 632 Course Description
  Supplementary Write-up on pullbacks and all that
• Math 631: Introduction to Algebraic Geometry, Fall 1996, 2001, 2006 (Michigan) Text: Shafarevich, vol I. Old Problem Sets.
• Introduction to Algebraic Geometry, University of Jyvaskyla, Winter 2001
  Text: An invitation to Algebraic Geometry, by Smith, Kahapaa, Kekalainen, Traves (Springer)
• Math 115: Calculus I, Section 12, Fall 2000
  The official Math department Math 115 website
  (Caution: the department is not very quick about updating information here. )
• Math 105: Functions, Data, Graphs, Winter 2000
• Math 614 : Commutative Algebra, University of Michigan, Fall 1999
• Math 513: Linear Algebra, University if Michigan, Winter 1999
  Supplementary Write up: Bases for Infinite Dimensional Vector Spaces
• Honors Calculus (18.014) at MIT, Fall 1997
• Graduate student seminar on Tight Closure, Fall 1997 MIT
• Graduate reading course on Basic Algebra (following Lang's book), Fall 1997, MIT
• Intersection Theory: University of Michigan, Winter 97
  Summary of main points covered in the graduate student intersection theory seminar
• Introduction to Commutative Algebra (Reading Course) University of Michigan, Fall 1996