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WEEK 4 SCHEDULE
JULY 2-6, 2007
Welcome back to 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.
A current version of this schedule lives at
http://www.math.utah.edu/~korevaar/ACCESS2007.
As part of your project work this week, you will be testing
the "Body Mass Index" hypothesis, that human body weights
should scale like the square of their heights, for people of
proportional size. To run this experiment we need lots of
height-weight data, which you shall collect from family and friends.
I'll need this data from you by this Thursday July 5,
at the latest. Please record
weight in pounds and height in inches, (or feet and inches).
We will especially need data from babies and children.
Monday July 2
11 a.m. - noon
JTB 120
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Megan Morris, entering ACCESS class of 2003, will talk about
her undergraduate research experiences in Math and
Bioengineering, her double major areas. Megan has co-written a paper about
"A Network Model for Fluid Transport through Sea Ice",
with Math Professors Jingyi Zhu and Ken Golden. She hopes to
complete her Master's degree in biomedical engineering this (upcoming)
academic year.
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Tuesday July 3
8:30-11:00
JTB 120
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What are fractals, how can they have
a fractional dimension, and how can
you turn Bob into one using iterated function systems?
Here are the notes:
classicalfractals.pdf,
IFSfractals.pdf,
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11:20-noon
JTB 120
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Math class advising and FREE LUNCH
with
Angie Gardiner,
our Director of Undergraduate Services and 1992 ACCESS student,
doing the advising; sandwiches from "Skool Lunch."
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Wednesday July 4
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Enjoy your Independence Day holiday!
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Thursday July 5:
8:30-10:10 a.m.
PC-Lab 1735
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Making your own fractals with Maple, part of your group project for this week.
Use the files in the directory
fractals.
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10:30-noon
JTB 120
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"What if Animals were Fractals?", a presentation by
Meagan McNulty. An original reference for Meagan's talk is
"A General Model for the Origin of Allometric
Scaling Laws in Biology", G.B. West,
J.H. Brown, and B.J. Enquist, "Science Magazine" 276 4/7/97
p. 122-125,
www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/276/5309/122. There
are subsequent papers which both support and attack this model, which
does not represent settled science.
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Friday July 6:
8:00-9:00 a.m.
Women's Resource Center
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"Safety and survival" - go to southeast end of main floor of the Union
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9:10-noon
PC-Lab 1735
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Project work: Making fractals, and
testing the body mass index hypothesis with the data you
have collected. We will begin by going through the document
bmi.mws
(bmi.pdf).
Here is the height-weight data we collected:
htwts.mws
Your precise project directions are at
project2.pdf.
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