Elnatan's REACH Log

Total time spent on REACH so far: 44 hours

Week 1:

Sept 24 -- meeting, 2 hours
Sept 25 -- homework: showing the recurrence relation for matchings of 2-by-n grids, 1 hour
Sept 26 -- meeting, 2 hours

Week 2:

Oct 1 -- homework: finding a recurrence relation for matchings of 3-by-n grids, 1 hour; meeting, 2 hours
Oct 3 -- meeting, 2 hours

Week 3:

Oct 6 -- setting up web site and starting log, 2 hours
Oct 8 -- meeting, 2 hours
Oct 10 -- meeting, 2 hours

Week 4:

Oct 15 -- meeting, 2 hours
Oct 17 -- meeting, 2 hours

Week 5:

Oct 22 -- meeting, 2 hours
Oct 24 -- meeting, 2 hours

Week 6:

Oct 28 -- reading Thurston's article Conway's Tiling Groups but not understanding much, 1 hour
Oct 29 -- meeting, 2 hours; reading Conway and Lagarias' Tiling with Polyominoes and Combinatorial Group Theory, 1 hour
Oct 31 -- meeting, 2 hours

Week 7

Nov 5 -- meeting, 2 hours
Nov 7 -- meeting, 2 hours

Week 8

Nov 12 -- meeting, 2 hours
Nov 14 -- meeting, 2 hours

Week 9

Nov 19 -- meeting, 2 hours
Nov 21 -- meeting, 2 hours

Week 10

Nov 26 -- meeting, 2 hours