2007-09-26

1. Introduce myself (2 minutes)
2. Students quickly introduce themselves (10 minutes at most)
3. Seminars (3 minutes):

   • Number theory seminar -- Tuesdays at 4pm, see http://wiki.wstein.org/ntuw (1 minute)

   • Computational number theory and cryptography seminar -- probably Wednesday at 4pm, every other week (1 minute)

   • Sage seminar -- probably Monday at 5pm, see http://wiki.sagemath.org/sage-uw (1 minute)

4. Handout syllabus and schedule, and go over it (10 minutes)
5. Handout homework 1 (2 minutes)
6. Course website / wiki / mailing list (5 minutes)

7. What is algebraic number theory (10 minutes)

8. Start fundamental theorem of abelian groups and Hermite normal form (8 minutes)