Monday, June 21, 2010

Tuesday and Wednesday

Tuesday morning students worked in groups. After lunch David Anton gave an introduction to LaTeX, any specific questions that come up can be addressed to David, Colin, or your faculty adviser/ graduate student adviser. The students then went to a presentation by Guo Qingping.

Wednesday morning students worked in groups. We met with the Chemistry REU for the final ethics in science luncheon. Students were then given instructions about how to register and fill out information for CITI so that we will be in compliance with NSF guidelines. Please complete this course as soon as possible. After lunch groups met again and prepared for the presentation on Thursday.

Sunday, June 20, 2010

The Rocky Mountain Mathematics Consortium Summer School kicks off on Tuesday.

The scheduled group activities for this week are given below.
Unless otherwise indicated the talks are in the Classroom Building, Room 140.

Monday June 21

           2:10-3:00  Poof vs Proof
           Ross Hall 247

 Tuesday
             8:00-9:40 Formulating balance laws
         10:05-11:15  Finite Volume Methods for 1D Scalar Equations
           1:30 - 2:30 Problem & Discussion Session
            5:30 -7:30 Welcome Picnic/Reception
                              Washington Park
Wednesday
             8:30-9:40 Finite Volume Methods for 1D Systems

         10:05-11:15 Formulating balance laws & Scalar equations
           1:30 - 2:30 Problem & Discussion Session
           3:00 - 4:00  Problem & Discussion Session
Thursday
 
            8:30-9:40 Scalar Equations
        10:05-11:15 Multidimensional Finite Volume Mehtods
          1:30 - 2:30 Guest Lecturer, Blake Temple on Numerical Simulation of GR Shock Waves
          3:00 - 4:00  Guest Lecturer, Blake Temple on General Relativistic Self-Similar Waves & 
                             Cosmology

Friday
              8:30-9:40  Systems of equations
          10:05-11:15  Guest Lecturer Blake Temple on Nonlinear Time-Periodic Sound Waves
              2:00 -3:00 The Beamer package for presenting math talks.

Saturday
                Hiking excursions to Snowy Range (details to be discussed in RMMC sessions).

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Monday

Monday morning students worked with their groups. After lunch students had the opportunity to meet some of the graduate students in the department. We talked about the pros and cons of our own graduate school experiences, no professors were present and so hopefully students got a good feeling for the truth of graduate school. For the REU students, if there are any questions that you did not get answered or think of later let me know and we will address these questions when we meet with Beth Buskirk and the graduate students again.

After the meeting with graduate students we adjourned and students got back to their projects.

Friday and the weekend

All of Friday, students met with their groups and worked with Long and Victor on their projects. We can't wait to see what they have come up with during their Thursday presentations.

On Saturday we made an unsuccessful attempt at hiking at Vedauwoo, the rain was too much for us. We ended up going bowling and playing pool instead. On Sunday Bryan and Chanyoung invited students and all those involved with the REU over for a barbecue which I trust was successful.

Friday, June 11, 2010

Schedule for Week 2 (June 14-18)

Monday:

Morning:
Group Meetings (scheduled by Victor and Long)

Afternoon:
(2:00) Meet the graduate students, an introduction to graduate school and what to expect as a graduate student.
Group meetings as scheduled.

Tuesday:

Morning:
Group Meetings

Afternoon:
Group Meetings
(3:00) An introduction to LaTeX with David Anton.
(4:10) Guest lecturer: Guo Qingping from Wuhan University of Technology, Parallel Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm of Inverse Heat Conduction Problem

Wednesday:

Morning:
Group Meetings
Lunch: (12:30-2:00) Ethics

Afternoon:
Group Meetings

Thursday:

Morning:
(9:00-10:00) Research Reports (Students report on their progress so far)

Afternoon:
Group Meetings
(3:00) Writing Mathematics, Myron Allen

Friday:

Morning:
Group Meetings

Afternoon:
(2:00)An introduction to the Math subject GRE, Mike Bostick.
Group Meetings

Thursday

Thursday morning students were given an introduction to each of the three projects and given the opportunity to select which of the three they preferred. It turned out that the students split directly into two groups each with four students, so there will be two projects this year.

After lunch the students split into their groups and started on the projects. At 4:00 Ye Zhang from the geology department came in and gave a lecture about Upscaling & Model Complexity in Subsurface Flow, this helped to show the importance of a good model in real world applications.

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Tuesday and Wednesday

Tuesday morning Long Lee gave a more in depth look at Partial Differential Equations and how they will be used in the projects. After lunch Harish Gopalan gave an introduction to the cluster and how to access the cluster. Long Lee followed this by an introduction to CLAWPACK (Conservation Law Package) for calculating the solution to PDEs. Long then went on to talk about renormalization groups and the application to PDEs.

Wednesday morning Victor Ginting talked about a more theoretical approach to PDEs with the finite element method. The students then went to lunch with the Chemistry REU. Bryan Shader and John Hoberg acted out a scenario and students were given the opportunity to participate in a mock PhD oral exam. After lunch Victor continued his presentation with an introduction to Matlab and more about the Finite element method. At 4:00 students visited Mohammad Piri's lab in Chemical and Petroleum Engineering. Mohammad Piri injects various fluids (oil, gas, water, etc...) into various rock samples and maps the result of injection using a CT scan. This lab is the only of its kind in the world and it was a treat to visit such a well designed, well run lab.