Ali Rajaei Wiles (chair), Washnitzer and Almgren almgren: absolute continuity, a nice thm about it. radius ofconvergence of taylor series of 1/x^2+1 at 100. some unimportant questions that i don't recall, but i tried to sketch the proof of big picard instead, but he stopped me and said he is not intersted in it!!! (it was quite nice, a very clever diff geo proof,u can find it in milnor's suny notes in cpx dynamics) algebra define skew symmetric real matrices, let A be one of them. prove that (A+I)/(A-I) is orthogonal. splitting field of x^3-2 discriminant of a poly # theo: what's a hilbert class field what's the maximal unram abelian ext of Q(sqrt5)? the one only ramified at 5? what is a hecke correspondence? what is the curve corresponding to it in X_0(N) x X_0(N)? (answer: X_0(Np) corresponds to T_p) alg geo: int1/sqrt(1-x^4)? diff of 1st kind on x^4 + y^4 = 1. some other questions like: def of a modular form, how to compute class #s?! how to ccompute dim of mod forms of weight k?...... 2 hours. theyasked me to stay out for a while in the beginning!!!