High School Honors Institute

August 2-3, 2004


Introduction

Welcome to the Applied Mathematics Department's demonstration for the 2004 High School Honors Institute. Your guides for the day are graduate students Maribeth Bleymaier, Geoff Sanders, and Stefan Wild, undergraduate student Tyler Hartung, as well as Anne Dougherty, a professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics. This web page includes the schedule for the day along with the worksheets for the various problems that we will be working on. Some supplemental links and contact emails are also provided below.
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Schedule

Time Location Activity Presenter
9:00-9:10 ECCR 151 Welcome and Introduction to Applied Math Anne Dougherty
9:10-10:00 Courtyard How far can you build with blocks? Anne Dougherty
Tyler Hartung
10:00-10:40 ECCR 151 Music and Mathematics Maribeth Bleymaier
Geoff Sanders
10:40-10:50 ECCR 151 BREAK  
10:50-11:50 ECCR 143 Group Problems:
                        Image Processing,
                        Fractals,
                        MVT: Rocketry, Predator-Prey		  
Stefan Wild
Terry Haut
Geoff Sanders
1:00-1:45 ECCR 143 Mini Modeling Contest Anne Dougherty
Stefan Wild
1:45-2:30 ECCR 143 Operations Research and Applied Math:
Traveling Salesman Problem and the Monty Hall Problem		 Stefan Wild
2:30-3:00   Bus to NCAR  
3:00-4:30 NCAR Tour of NCAR and return to Engineering  
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Supplemental Links

In Boulder: Other Resources:

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If you have any questions, please feel free to email us (add colorado.edu to the prefixes below):
      Anne Dougherty: Anne.Dougherty@
      Maribeth Bleymaier: Maribeth.Bleymaier@
      Stefan Wild: wilds@