"The Non-Euclidean World, History, Geometry, and Analysis"
Sigurdur Helgason
Tue Jan 16, 01-02:00pm, 2-143
Single session event
In this lecture we give a short account of the dramatic and colorful history of Non-Euclidean Geometry. This involves centuries of efforts by top-notch mathematicians to prove Euclid's parallel axiom. The resulting Hyperbolic Geometry now enters significantly in many fields of mathematics, Differential Geometry, Lie Groups, Integral Geometry, Analysis and Number Theory. In this lecture we indicate some of these developments.
Contact: Sigurdur Helgason, 2-182, x3-3668, helgason@mit.edu
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An Introductory Course to MATLAB
Yossi Farjoun
Tue, Thu, Jan 9, 11, 16, 18, 23, 25, 30, 1, 10-11:00am, 14-0637
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 17 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
This no-credit class is intended for students with little or no previous programming experience. It will provide the foundations of programming in Matlab. Variables, arrays, conditional statements, loops, functions, and plots will all be explained. The class will consist of several lectures and some short exercises. At the end of the course students should be confident about using Matlab in their own project work, and should feel more prepared to deepen their Matlab programming skills and tackle other languages for computing, such as Java, C++, or python. Due to physical limitation, the class is limited in size. Please contact Yossi Farjoun: (yfarjoun@math.mit.edu) if you are interested in taking this class. In your email, please state your major, year, and whether you can bring a laptop WITH MATLAB to class.
Contact: Yossi Farjoun, 2-334, x3-7775, yfarjoun@math.mit.edu
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Bridge Tournament
Richard Stanley, Tom Leighton
Fri Feb 2, 12-06:00pm, 2-290
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
The Mathematics Department challenges all MIT bridge players to a team-of-four tournament. Those without a full team can still come and hope to find teammates. Refreshments offered, prizes awarded. Come and have a good time.
Contact: Richard Stanley, 2-375, x3-7930, rstan@math.mit.edu
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Integration Bee
Todd Kemp
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
See individual session descriptions below.
Contact: Todd Kemp, 2-308, x4-1507, tkemp@math.mit.edu
Integration Bee Qualifying Testing
Todd Kemp
Stop by at any point during the session, for a quick test of your single variable integration skills. Top scorers qualify for the Integration Bee. No knowledge beyond 18.01 necessary.
Thu Jan 25, 03-05:00pm, 54-100
Integration Bee
Todd Kemp
No enrollment limit. No advance sign up (but contestants must qualify, see Thursday, Jan. 25th). Single session event.
Come watch your fellow students match wits and single variable integration skills for prizes and the title of "Grand Integrator."
Tue Jan 30, 06-08:00pm, 54-100
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Introduction to Contract Bridge
Brian Duran Bridge Teacher
Mon Jan 8, 07-09:30pm, 4-145
Thu Jan 11, 18, 07-09:30pm, 4-149
Mon Jan 22, 07-09:30pm, 4-153
Mon, Thu, Jan 25, 29, 1, 07-09:30pm, 4-149
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Note room changes to accommodate more people.
Come and discover the fun and intellectual challenge associated with contract bridge! In this course, we explore the fundamentals of the game, including bidding, declarer play, and defense. The lessons are based on The Club Series by Audrey Grant, as published by the American Contract Bridge League.
Each session will consist of a lecture, several examples, and supervised play. By the end of this eight-session course, the student will have learned enough to play bridge socially, and start exploring the exciting world of duplicate bridge. There will also be an individual tournament at the end of the course, with prizes for the winners.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/mitdlbc
Contact: Brian Duran, iap-bridge-07@mit.edu
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Math Contest in Modeling Training Session
M. Bazant
Mon Jan 29, 01-03:00pm, 2-131
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Teams of up to three undergraduates will be selected and trained for The COMAP Mathematical Contest in Modeling (February 8-12, 2007) which poses challenging, open-ended, real-world problems.
Web: http://www.comap.com/undergraduate/contests/mcm
Contact: M. Bazant, 2-363B, x3-1713, bazant@math.mit.edu
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Mathematics Department Music Recital
Timothy Nguyen
Wed Jan 31, 03-05:00pm, Killian Recital Hall
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
This annual concert gives those in the mathematics community, together with family and friends, a chance to perform for each other. Come to play or listen.
Contact: Timothy Nguyen, 2-312, x4-1348, timothyn@math.mit.edu
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Star-P Tutorial for Parallel Programming for use with MATLAB
Alan Edelman, Ronnie Hoogerwerf
Thu Jan 18, 10am-02:00pm, 1-115
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 20 participants.
Single session event
Tutorial to obtain productivity with parallel computing using MATLAB. Students might be starting to use a parallel computer and/or have little knowledge of parallel programming. Participation is limited. Preference will be given to MIT students and researchers who already have an application in MATLAB's m language that they are hoping to parallelize. Please email Professor Edelman ( edelman@math.mit.edu) and describe your hopes. Ideal project characteristics: Large and/or complex model that would lend itself to parallel programming. Prefer a familiar desktop tool like MATLAB, over using C++ and MPI for parallel programming.. The tutorial will be hands-on. Every student will have access to Interactive Supercomputing's Star-P. Interactive Supercomputing is an MIT spinoff.
Contact: Alan Edelman, 2-343, x3-7770, edelman@math.mit.edu
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