Thankyou for your interest in the sessions for Tournament of the Towns (TT), which start on
Tuesday 4th January at 2pm
and will be in the Blakers Lecture Theatre, which is in the Mathematics Building at UWA. Here are detailed directions for finding the room:
There is an online map at https://www.web.uwa.edu.au/contact/map. Once there, in the window below 'SEARCH' (in capitals) enter: blakers
This will bring up 2 identical choices. Click on either. This will put a balloon in the centre of the Blakers Lecture Theatre (BLT). Above the balloon, you will see a square protuberance from what looks like one large building. In fact, this square shape is a free-standing building called the Weatherburn Lecture Theatre (WLT), which is just north of BLT, with BLT being part of a main building, which is the Mathematics Building. Cheryl Praeger Lecture Theatre (CPLT - the room we used to use) is on the North West corner of this main building, i.e. immediately West of the balloon. BLT is the next room east of CPLT. Its door is opposite the main entry door to WLT.The first thing you need to locate is the University's Fairway Entrance No. 2.
- If you are coming from the City direction, travel down Stirling Highway past Hackett Drive, past the building with the clock on your left and Thomas St on your right, and take the next left which is The Fairway, and continue down until Entrance No. 2, which is opposite Clark St (on your right).
- If you are coming from the Fremantle side, follow Stirling Highway down until you get to Broadway and turn right; then take next left into Clark St, and Drive until you cross the Fairway, and enter Entrance No. 2.
The best place to be dropped off is Carpark 15, which has a very hard-to-see entrance, just south of Fairway Entrance No. 2. In line with the entrance to Carpark 15 is a path that passes between Building 226 (Electrical & Electronic Engineering) and Building 222 (EZONE North). Continuing (east) along this path takes you to a bit of a tunnel between WLT and Building 223 (Mathematics). The first room on your right in this tunnel, as previously mentioned, is CPLT, and the next on your right is BLT.
At the first session I plan to give each student a book of notes. I indicated in the letter that some mini i-lectures would be available for those who can't make the sessions. These and PDFs of the chapters of an earlier edition of the book of notes referred to above are at this site.
Note that it is much more preferable that you attend the sessions if you can. I have only encountered a handful of students who properly engage with the material, who did not start with face-to-face introductory sessions. It takes extraordinary self-discipline to maintain a to-fro dialogue by email where communication occurs every couple of days, doing the problems I suggest and being able to use my criticism in subsequent problems. I won't take students on who can't come to the introductory sessions, and who have not covered at least the same ground in this way.