Fall 2008
- Mon, Sep 8, 4pm, Math 101, Remote Connection, SSH, and VNC, by Joe McMahon
- Mon, Sep 15, 4pm, Math 102, An introduction to LaTeX and Beamer, by Kevin LaTourette
- Mon, Oct 13, 4pm, Math 101, Paradigm Shifts in Science Based Simulations, by Mac Hyman
- Mon, Oct 27, 4pm, Math 101, SQL for Joy: All your database are belong to us, by Karl Newell
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.
Symbolic Math
In[7]:= D[x^n, x]
-1 + n
Out[7]= n x
In[8]:= D[x^n, n]
n
Out[8]= x Log[x]
In[9]:= Dt[x^n]
-1 + n n
Out[9]= n x Dt[x] + x Dt[n] Log[x]
In[10]:= Integrate[x^n, x]
1 + n
x
Out[10]= ------
1 + n
In[11]:= Integrate[Sin[x] Cos[x], {x, a, b}]
2 2
Cos[a] Cos[b]
Out[11]= ------- - -------
2 2
In[12]:= NIntegrate[Sin[Cos[x]]/x, {x, 1, 2}]
Out[12]= 0.0827321
In[13]:= Integrate[x^2 + y^2, {x, 0, 1}, {y, 0, x}]
1
Out[13]= -
3