2004-2005 SIAM Officers, CU-Boulder

Events

Scholarship Meeting - TBA Held with faculty and staff, this meeting provides students with an idea of what scholarships are available to our students.

Student Talks - TBA throughout the year
A series of talks held jointly with the graduate student chapter, this is an opportunity for students to hear other undergraduate and graduate students discuss areas of mathematics in which they have interest.

Research Presentations - TBA throughout the year

A set of three or four talks, held in the evening, where undergraduate students give presentations on their research.

John Carter on Large Schools vs Small Schools - March 10th, 2005

John Carter, a former PhD student of Harvey Segur lead a discussion on similarities/differences between student life at a research one university (like CU) and at a small liberal arts university (Seattle University). It was a nice informal discussion over lunch!

Front Range Applied Mathematics Student Conference - March 5th, 2005

SIAM student chapters of Colorado are hosting a regional student conference on A pplied Mathematics for all schools along the Front Range. The event was successful in turning out a large number of undergraduates and graduate students. The Keynote speaker, Stanley Osher of UCLA gave a great talk on level set methods! For more information click here.

SIAM Talk - February 22, 2005

Doug Nychka (a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research here in Boulder) gave an informal lecture on spatial statistics. He spoke about about one of the many practical, useful, and very interesting applications of statistics! An abstract is included below.

One goal of spatial statistical methods is to estimate surfaces from irregularly sampled data and attach some error bound on the estimate. A typical application in the geosciences is to estimate a field (e.g. ozone pollution levels across Colorado) from sparse station data. This talk will describe the basic statistical approach involving a stochastic model for the unknown field. The relationship to geostatistics (Kriging) and numerical interpolation will be traced along with some data examples.

SIAM Talk - November 30, 2004

Michael Sprague talked about the "Numerical Investigation of a Reduced Set of Equations for Rotationally Constrained Convection". The talk was a very good introduction t o computational fluid dynamics.

Industry Talk - November 18, 2004

Join us in welcoming Tyler Otto, Western US Sales Manager for Digital Globe. This is a very special opportunity for student to hear about projects in the rapidly evolving field of satellite imaging and remote sensing.

Advising Luncheon - Tuesday, October 26 11:30-1pm in the APPM Conference room

A lunch meeting held with the undergraduate advisors. This provides students to get advice on courses from both faculty advisors and fellow students. Come and plan your spring semester while enjoying some free food!

Graduate Student Panel - Tuesday, Sept. 7th from 4-5pm

An opportunity to encourage undergraduate students to talk with graduate students about attending graduate school. We will meet in the Eaton conference room.

August 26th, 2004 4:30-6pm

Get together with Undergraduate Applied Math majors/minors and SIAM members! Th is was a good opportunity to meet fellow students. We had a good turn out!

April 21st, 2004

Preliminary results from the Mathematical Contest in Modeling , (5-9 February) are in, and our four teams did a fantastic job! There were be four presentations by the teams that participated.

Downloads:

• Conference Brochure

• Conference Poster

• Conference Program
  

SIAM Information

The CU Boulder undergraduate chapter of SIAM, one of the newest engineering societies at CU, was founded to promote interactions between Applied Math students and faculty. In addition to applied math undergraduates and some graduate students, SIAM has also attracted students from other engineering disciplines to its activities. Society functions include technical presentations by students, faculty, and industry speakers, field trips and student/faculty social events---all designed to introduce undergraduates to the widespread use of applied mathematics in engineering and the sciences. All interested students, from any major, are encouraged to participate in SIAM-sponsored events.

For more information, call (2-6927) or stop by the Applied Math office (ECOT 225), or email siam@colorado.edu

Some of our activities include meetings, mentor lunches, and field trips. Meetings consist of guest speakers, student and industry panels, and other varying fields of interest. Mentor lunches allow undergraduate students to meet a member of the faculty and upperclassmen. All SIAM functions are paid for by the organization, which is all the more reason to get involved!

Please Send Questions and Comments to

SIAM@Colorado.Edu

For further information consult the SIAM student web page

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