Course Outline

Course Resources:

• Model Building Courses on the Internet
• Mathematical Modeling Course at the University of Montana
• Organizations
• The Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications (COMAP)
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
• The Mathematical Contest in Modeling
• Other References
• Anne Morlet's Math Modeling Page at Argonne National Laboratory
• The Connected Curriculum Project

 

Course Assignments:

Homework Assignments
• HW #1 -- Due Jan. 4

Hvidsten, Holte
• HW #2 -- Due Jan. 5

Hvidsten, Holte
• HW #3 -- Due Jan. 6

Hvidsten, Holte
• HW #4 -- Due Jan. 7

Hvidsten, Holte
• HW #5 -- Due Jan. 10

Hvidsten, Holte
• HW #6 -- Due Jan. 11

Hvidsten, Holte,Holte's solutions
• HW #7 -- Due Jan. 14

Holte (html),Holte (postscript)
• HW #8 -- Due Jan. 17

Hvidsten, Holte
• HW #9 -- Due Jan. 18

Hvidsten, Holte
• HW #10 -- Due Jan. 19

Hvidsten
• Extra credit -- Due Jan 25

Holte


Final Project - Description

Course "Handouts"

• Survey
• Day 1
• Logic and sets
• Set operations
• Events as sets
• Day 4

Probability generating function, f(g(s))
• Day 6

Poisson probabilities, birth and death processes, gambler's ruin
• Day 7

Section 5.8
• Day 9

Stationary probability vectors via Maple
• Day 10

Birth and death stationary probability vectors via Maple
• Day 12

Problem 8.6(ii) Using Scottish forest data
• Day 13

Test 2 prep (Holte) (html),Test 2 prep (Holte) (postscript)
Test 2 prep (Hvidsten)
• Day 17

MC 14/24 report format: INFORMATION ONLY
• Day 20

End-of-course Survey

Lab Assignments:

Differential Equations in Maple