Class Meetings

Class 1, Wednesday, August 25, 1999
Introductory material about the course will be presented. A brief discussion of the various branches of mathematics and statistics will be conducted. Then an introduction to the process of mathematical modeling will be discussed. This process will be illustrated with a drug therapy example (pharmacokinetics). The material and graphs presented in class are available on the web - you can skip the details in the explanations since they require information from a course in differential equations.
Class 2, Wednesday, September 1, 1999
Dr. Hitt gave a talk on using computer visualization in mathematics.  Specifically, he talked about Delaunay surfaces and various related isometric deformations that can be visualized on computers.
Class 3, Wednesday, September 8, 1999
Dr. Hitt gave a brief introduction to knot theory.
Class 4, Wednesday, September 15, 1999
Dr. Dan Silver talked about knot theory.
Class 5, Wednesday September 22, 1999
Dr. Hitt talked about the history and applications graph theory.
Class 6, Wednesday, September 29, 1999
Dr. Scott Carter will talk on surfaces.
Class 7, Wednesday, October 6, 1999
TBA
Class 8, Wednesday, October 13, 1999
Dr. Madhuri Mulekar will talk on probability.
Class 9, Wednesday, October 20, 1999
Dr. Hitt followed up some of the probablilty topics introduced by the previous talk.
Class 10, Wednesday, October 27, 1999
Dr. Mark Carpenter gave a talk on the statistics of remote sensing.
Class 11, Wednesday, November 3, 1999
Dr. Pandu Kulkarni gave a talk about some of the applications of statistics he has been involved with.