ACCESS-UGS 1430
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July 7-11, 2003
This is the schedule for the fourth week of ACCESS, our second week of math. The week 1 schedule now lives at week1.html Our themes for this week are scaling laws in nature, and fractal geometry. Our tentative schedule is shown below. It may change as the week progresses.
Nancy Sundell-Turner will give some of the presentations this week, Maria Bell and Erika Roner will also be helping again, but Emily Putnam is off studying for her Ph.D. preliminary exams. My office is in LCB 204 and my phone number is 581-7318. This schedule lives at http://www.math.utah.edu/~korevaar/ACCESS2003
Monday July 7:
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8:30 a.m. - noon
JTB 120 |
Geometric scaling: how to rescale space and Bob with affine transformations. |
Tuesday July 8:
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8:30 - 9:30 a.m. JTB 120 |
Math class advising, with Angie Gardiner, our Director of Undergraduate Services. |
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10:00-noon JTB 120 and maybe PC-Lab 1735 |
What are fractals, and how to turn Bob into one. Constructing interated function system (IFS) fractals with Maple. Here is a directory with procedures and examples. fractals |
Wednesday July 9:
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8:30-10:10 a.m. PC-Lab 1735 |
Making your own fractals with Maple, part of your group project for this week. |
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10:30-noon JTB 120 |
Nancy Sundell will present "The Ideal Body: An Ant's Perspective".
A reference for this talk is Wilson, E.O. 1953. The Origin and Evolution of Polymorphism in Ants. Quarterly Review of Biology. 28(2):136-156. (You probably need to be on a University account to follow this link.) |
Thursday July 10:
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8:30-10:10 a.m. JTB 120 |
Finding power laws: We'll study the mathematics you'll need in order to test the body mass index hypothesis with the data you have collected. This commonly believed (but wrong) allometry law states that weight is roughly proportional to the square of height, for people of equal build. |
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10:30-noon JTB 120 |
Nancy will present "Snow Geese: Modelling the Killers of the Arctic" |
Friday July 11:
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8:30-10:40 PC-Lab 1735 10:40-noon Marriott Labs |
Work on your week 4 project.pdf. You will need these two Maple files: bmi.mws, and htswts.mws. For a browser version of the first file, use bmi.pdf |
Monday July 14:
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8:30 a.m. MEB 3485 |
Chris Johnson will be leading this physics week, and Sid wanted to make sure you all checked the location of the Merill Engineering Building. By the way, room 3485 is on the 3rd floor. |