Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 35

math.mit.edu/classes/18.783, Wow, good slides! Well organized site! This is a good professor! And brutal course. 25 lectures, and lecture one ends in BSD conjecture!

Some points from math.mit.edu/classes/18.783/2022/LectureSlides1.pdf:

Their status is a mess as of 2020s, with several systems ongoing. Long live the "original" collegiate university!

web.math.pmf.unizg.hr/~duje/tors/rankhist.html gives a list with Elkies (2006) on top with:TODO why this non standard formulation?

Moodle instance of the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford.

Has a mixture of open access and closed access. But at least it can have open access unlike the in-house systems such as Canvas where everything is necessarily paywalled!

Sometimes things appear open but don't show any meaningful content if you are not logged in, which is annoying.

But at least it gives a clear public course list, thing that certain departments (cough Department of Physics of the University of Oxford cough).

The organization is a bit crap, when you expand e.g. C Michaelmas term it shows nothing, just a search.

The way to go is via the year year categories e.g. "Year 2022-23": courses.maths.ox.ac.uk/course/index.php?categoryid=734. Term splitting is annoying, but one can stand it.

There seems to be no way to list all versions of a single course across multiple years besides just doing a search e.g.

No, they couldn't be like everyone else and be a "department", proud mathematicians had to be an "Institute"!

The normal navigation to them was paywalled, but the static files are served without login checks if you know their URL. One way to go about it is to search by prefix on the Wayback Machine: web.archive.org/web/*/https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/contentblock/2011/06/03/*

The last handbooks we can find are 2020/2021, they might have move to a new more properly paywalled location after that year.

2011- professor: Steven H. Simon. His start date is given e.g. at: www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/SteveSimon/condmat2012/LectureNotes2012.pdf which is presumably an older version of: www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/SteveSimon/QCM2022/QuantumMatter.pdf

Notes/book: www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/SteveSimon/QCM2022/QuantumMatter.pdf Marked as being for Oxford MMathPhys, so it appears that this is a 4th year course normally. TODO but where is it listed under the course list of MMapthPhys? mmathphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/course-schedule

Course page index: www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/SteveSimon/

www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/SteveSimon/QCM2023/quantummatter.html mentions it is given in Hilary term

2023 syllabus as per www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/SteveSimon/QCM2023/quantummatter.html#Syllabus:

Sample official source of the term "MMath": www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/courses/course-listing/mathematics

Handbooks: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/members/students/undergraduate-courses/teaching-and-learning/handbooks-synopses (archive)

Students choose only one of the Cx courses.

Then there are PhDs corresponding to each of them: www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/mpls/physics