Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences Seminar
1 Credit Class - Spring Quarter 2009
MATH 498 - Thursdays 12:30-1:50 - More Hall Room 230
The Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences Seminar is designed to
introduce UW undergraduates to research and career opportunities in the
mathematical sciences. The seminar is open to all undergraduates at the
University of Washington who have completed a calculus sequence. It is
also advisable that students have some familiarity with differential
equations and linear algebra.
Why should you consider enrolling in this seminar?
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Have you ever wondered what you could do what opportunities in
academia and industry are available to those with a mathematical
sciences degrees?
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Are you interested in learning more about a variety of research
from speakers who will gear their talks to an undergraduate audience?
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Do you need one more unit to meet the minimum course load requirement?
What happens in this seminar?
Speakers will represent a variety of fields where mathematical
sciences are used in research. Past topics come from diverse fields
including: computer graphics, bioengineering, numerical modeling of
tsunamis, probabilistic weather forecasting, and more! Each speaker
will describe the work they do, why it's interesting and how they use
mathematical sciences in what they do each day.
1 credit, CR/NC based on:
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Attendance
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Completion of a 1-2 page paper at the end of the quarter
To join the mailing list for seminar notices, or for other questions about the
seminar, contact: klees [at] u [dot] washington
[dot] edu.
Schedule
Date: Thursday, April 2, 12:30pm
Speaker: Brad Bell, APL
Place: MOR 230
Title: Kalman Filtering
Slides from Brad's talk
Date: Thursday, April 9, 12:30pm
Speaker: Stephanie Vance, UW Math Department
Place: MOR 230
Title: Sphere Packings, Lattices, and Kissing Configurations in R^n
Slides from Stephanie's talk.
Date: Thursday, April 16, 12:30pm
Speaker: Jacob Lewis, UW Math Department
Place: MOR 230
Title: Discriminants and Their Newton Polytopes
Date: Thursday, April 23, 12:30pm
Speaker: Eileen Burns, QERM
Place: MOR 230
Title: Actuarial Mathematics
Slides from Eileen's talk.
Date: Thursday, April 30, 12:30pm
Speaker: Sasha Aravkin, UW Math Department
Place: MOR 230
Title: Robust Statistics and Robust Kalman Filtering
Slides from Sasha's talk.
Date: Thursday, May 7, 12:30pm
Speaker: Megan Karalus, UW Mechanical Engineering Department
Place: MOR 230
Title: Computational Fluid Dynamic Modeling of a Downdraft Wood-Fired Furnace Abstract
Slides from Megan's talk.
Date: Thursday, May 14, 12:30pm
Speaker: Eric Shea-Brown, UW Applied Math Department
Place: MOR 230
Title: Optimization Problems in Neural Networks
Date: Thursday, May 21, 12:30pm
Speaker: Joe Sakshaug, Survey Sciences
Place: MOR 230
Title: A Survey of Survey Methodology and Career/Training Opportunities
Date: Thursday, May 28, 12:30pm
Speaker: Anne Greenbaum
Place: MOR 230
Title: Applications of Numerical Linear Algebra and Rounding Error Analysis
Slides from Anne's talk.
Date: Thursday, June 4, 12:30pm
Speaker: Doug Martin, UW Statistics Department
Place: MOR 230
Title: TBA
For information on the Applied and Computational Math Sciences (ACMS) Degree
at
the UW, click here: ACMS Website.
Please send comments, corrections, and suggestions to: klees[at]u[dot]washington[dot]edu.