Introduction to the Profession: Math 100

Fasshauer's Math 100 webpage

Igor Cialenco's lectures (also this) and complete homework assignment.

Schedule
• 8/23 8/28 8/30 9/4 Intro to Math (Pelsmajer)
• 9/6 9/11 9/13 9/18 Logic, Sets, Proofs (Pelsmajer/Kaul)
• 9/20 Project Proposals (various AMATH faculty) and CMC visit (Emily Breckenridge & Bruce Mueller)
• 9/25 9/27 10/2 10/4 Intro to Matlab (Fasshauer)
• 10/9 More proofs(induction) (Pelsmajer)
• 10/11 Intro to Discrete Applied Math (and CS theory, via graph theory examples) (Pelsmajer)
• 10/16 Discrete Applied Math(Discretation of the Heat Equation) (Ellis)
• 10/23 10/25 11/1 Applied Analysis(functional equations) (Frank)
• 11/6 Applied Analysis(physics models) (Abarji)
• 11/8 Intro to Stochastics (Cialenco) and IEA visit (Jennifer Keplinger)
• 11/13 Computational Math(scattered data approximation with radial basis functions)(Fasshauer)
• 11/15 Intro to Stochastics - Central Limit Theorem (Cialenco)
• 11/20 Stochastics(Financial Math) (Bielecki)
• 11/27 Stochastics (Hickernell)
• 11/29 Computational Math (Hickernell)
• 12/4 Computational Math (Fasshauer)
• 12/6 Computational Math (Li)
• 12/10 and TBA: Project Presentations

Career Management Center

Emily Breckenridge and Bruce Mueller from the Career Management Center spoke on September 20. Don't forget to email her with your first and last name, and your @iit.edu email address, so that she can open an eRecruiting account for you.

Her Powerpoint presentation

Math Resources webpage at the CMC.

Information about the September 27th Career Fair is on the CMC home page.

Projects

General guidelines for projects
All projects must be approved by a faculty member. A typical project will include a short paper, a presentation, and a computer program. Presentations will be given during our reserved slot for a final exam (or earlier). Groups will be graded both on the final project itself as well as on how well they stick to the following schedule:

• September 20: Faculty propose various projects to students.
• September 27: Deadline for formation of groups and choice of projects.
• September 30 - November 30: Group meetings with the faculty advisor, once every two weeks or at the discretion of the faculty advisor. Students should be making "sufficient progress", which is defined by the faculty advisor.
• December: Group Presentations, during the time alloted for a final exam, and during an extra meeting to be scheduled.

Suggested projects:

• Fasshauer (Lucas,Danny)
  
• Kaul
  
• Pelsmajer (Titilayo,Jorge)
  
• Ellis (Anne)
  
• Hickernell (Dot,Paul,Preston)
  
• Frank [Page 1] [Page 2] (Ellie,Max,Erich)
  
• Duan: Brownian motion and random dynamical systems: Brownian motion is a model for a class of random phenomena. This project explores the properties of Brownian motion numerically and analytically; and perhaps also simulates simple random systems driven by Brownian motions.
• Abarji: A science-related project, contact her for details.