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CSUMS

Members of the Mathematics Department at the University of St. Thomas recently learned that the Computational Science Training for Undergraduates in the Mathematical Sciences (CSUMS) proposal they submitted to the National Science Foundation was funded.

The project entails the formulation of undergraduate research cohorts that spend one year in an intensive research program to learn how computation is used in applied mathematical research. The faculty group consists of 13 faculty members from the University of St. Thomas, Augsburg College, and Macalester College.

During the Fall semester of the first project year (2008-2009) the Mathematics Department will offer an intensive seminar on computational methods to cohort students. Professors Stolarska and Van Fleet will lead this seminar. Please check the links below for pdf files, Matlab m-files, or Mathematica notebooks that are related to the seminars.

Over the course of the five-year program, the following research subprojects will be offered. Details about these subprojects are given below.

2009 CSUMS Conference

Click here for conference information.

Project Summary

Click here to read the project summary.

Research Subprojects

Seminar One, September 17, 2008

Click here to download the computer assignment for the first seminar.

Click here to download the reading assigment for the Seminar Two (September 24, 2008). You should carefully read the first five sections of this paper.

Seminar Two, September 24, 2008

Click here to download a reading assignment for the October 1, 2008 seminar.

Seminar Three, October 1, 2008

Click here to download a computer/reading assignment for the October 8, 2008 seminar.

Seminar Five, October 15, 2008

The following are the function and Jacobian matrix files that are needed for class.

Click here to download a written/programming assignment. The Matlab function that you need for the programming assignment is here. The written assignment is due on October 22, 2008, and the programming assignment is due by noonn on October 28, 2008.

Seminar Six, October 22, 2008

Please note: For your programming assignment assigned last week, please solve your system of equations directly (i.e. invert the Jacobian matrix) and not using an iterative scheme. Your assignment for this week can be found here.

Seminar Seven, October 29, 2008

For the programming portion of this seminar, you will need two m-files. The first is lfd.m and the second is soln.m. Homework assignment is given in Seminar Eight.

Seminar Eight, November 5, 2008