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, A Brief Introduction to CUDA, 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.
SLiRP
[NOTE (ADDED SEP 2003): The information in this document is based on couple of old SWIG talks and by now it is outdated. Although much of it could still be quite useful please, consider reading the math department support website documentation first and come back here as needed.]
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