Spring 2012
- Fri, Feb 3, 2pm, Math 102, Making a Professional Website, by Joseph Dinius
- Mon, Feb 13, 3pm, Math 102, Introduction to Mathematica, by Stuart Kent
- Fri, Mar 2, 2pm, Math 102, Parallel Computing, by Matthew Pennybacker
For more details, and talks in past semesters, consult the
full schedule of talks.
Tentative talks:
- Scripting with Bash
- Power Point presentation using LaTeX
- GNU/Linux text editors
Interested in speaking?
Past topics can (and should) be repeated
occasionally. In addition,
here are some topics people might like to hear about:
- Femlab (PDE modeling environment)
- GAP (computer algebra software)
- Getting started with Maple (or Matlab, or Mathematica, ...)
- How to do math on a Mac
- How to filter e-mail spam
- HTML vs. XHTML (the new HTML standard)
- Octave (free Matlab-like system)
- PDAs (handheld personal digital assistants and much more)
- PHP (server-side webpage scripting)
- R (free statistics system)
- Remote access (SSH, VNC, dial-up, ...)
- Scientific WorkPlace (graphical front end to TeX)
- Setting up a dual boot system (DOS/Linux)
- TeX / LaTeX topics
- Using scanners efficiently
- Using the WINEDT editor (a front end to TeX, HTML)
- XML (extensible markup language)
- [your favorite topic here]
To give a talk, please contact
swig@math.arizona.edu.
Solving Differential Equations
In[25]:= DSolve[y'[x] == a y[x], y[x], x]
a x
Out[25]= {{y[x] -> E C[1]}}
In[26]:= DSolve[ {y'[x] == a y[x], y[0] == 1}, y[x], x]
a x
Out[26]= {{y[x] -> E }}
In[37]:= NDSolve[{y'[x] == y[x], y[3] == 1}, y, {x, 0, 2}]
Out[37]= {{y -> InterpolatingFunction[{0., 3.}, <>]}}
In[38]:= Plot[Evaluate[y[x] /. %], {x, 0, 2}]
Out[38]= -Graphics- ***SEE FIGURE 1***