Sorry for the delay in sending this email. The delay was due to my wanting to have indexed the newly recorded mini i-lectures. I still have a few to go, which I'll add soon, but the most important ones are done. I've also indicated where i-lectures have gone missing. I'll need to create new ones for those.
All the new i-lectures are indicated by three red stars. The students who joined us quite late will have missed the face-to-face lectures corresponding to the new i-lectures in Chapter 2 and Chapter 4. Depending on when students started back at school, they will have missed face-to-face lectures corresponding to some or all of the i-lectures in Chapter 6 and Chapter 7, and no one has seen lectures on the Chinese Remainder Theorem (currently, the last two i-lectures of Chapter 7). My plan is to give you a login to a quiz on the Chinese Remainder Theorem, and send you a password with the login details in a separate email. A couple of students have already seen this quiz, but at the same time, I will give access to another quiz on Cryptography, which is the subject of Chapter 8 of the notes.
So why have I told you all that? Well ... the idea is that I'm hoping that students, particularly the new ones, will all have roughly the same background (well, the new students won't know much about geometry, inequalities, and the later topics in the notes, but we'll attend to that as we go) when they join the regular sessions.
I have one last AMO preparation (= "on topics too hard for new students") session today. The AMO is held on Tuesday 5th and Wednesday 6th February, this year. So the earliest I want new students to join the regular Training Sessions is this Wednesday 6 February (at UWA).
The regular sessions on Mondays at Curtin and Wednesdays at UWA will be roughly the same. So it's an either/or, i.e. choose either to come on Mondays or to come on Wednesdays. The idea with the sessions was to cover north and south of the river. Students should come to the one that is most convenient. That said, I would prefer if you have a choice, that you come to UWA, since there is more seating space in the venue. At Curtin it's going to be tight, if too many choose that day.
The slightly awkward situation at UWA is that for the next few weeks we'll be in Robert Street Lecture Theatre and then we'll switch to our usual venue: Blakers Lecture Theatre. Later I will tell you, if in doubt, always go to Blakers ... there will be a note on the door if it's elsewhere.
So now here are the details of when and where:
Choose either Monday at Curtin or Wednesday at UWA (but preferably UWA, since there's more space) ... and if you choose Wednesdays, you can start this week. If you choose Mondays, please don't come today ... start next week. Also, try to get as up-to-date as you can with the mini i-lectures, before you come, and I'll send you another email with login details to two on-line quizzes, which I think you will enjoy doing.
The AMT have an embargo on discussing AMO 2019 for 3-4 weeks. When I am allowed to talk about the AMO, I'll tend to just do one question at a time, and work up to it in a session, so new students are not totally lost.