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ACCESS-UGS 1430
Math Portion
Summer 2002
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WEEK 4 SCHEDULE July 8-12, 2002
This is the schedule for the fourth week of
ACCESS, our second week of math.
Our themes for this week are scaling laws in nature, and fractal geometry.
Our tentative schedule is shown below. It may change as
the week progresses.
Emina Alibegovic
and Kandice Nielson will be helping again.
My office is in
LCB 204 and
my phone number is
581-7318. This schedule lives at
http://www.math.utah.edu/~korevaar/ACCESS2002
Monday July 8:
8:30-10:10 a.m.
JTB 120
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Geometric scaling: how to rescale space and Bob with affine transformations.
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10:30-12:00
JTB 120
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What are fractals and how can you turn Bob into one?
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Tuesday July 9:
8:00 - 9:00 a.m.
Student Union
Room 293
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Kathy Brooks, the director of the Women's Resource Center, will tell
you about its offerings and feed you breakfast.
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9:15-10:40 a.m.
PC-Lab 1735
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We will finish talking about
Section 3 of yesterdays notes, the fractal revolution.
fractals a directory with Maple
procedures for making fractals.
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11:00-12:00
JTB 120
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Math class advising with
Angie Gardiner, our Department's Director of Undergraduate Services.
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Wednesday July 10:
8:30-10:10 a.m.
PC-Lab 1735
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Making your own fractals with Maple.
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10:30-noon
JTB 120
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"What if Animals were Fractals?", a lecture by
Fred Adler
who is fractional himself, being 1/2 Math Professor and 1/2 Biology Professor.
The paper Fred discussed is
"A General Model for the Origin of Allometric
Scaling Laws in Biology", G.B. West,
J.H. Brown, and B.J. Enquist, "Science Magazine", 276,
4 April 97,
pages 122-125. Here is a link,
www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/276/5309/122, which you should
be able to access from University computers.
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Thursday July 11:
8:30-10:10 a.m.
PC-Lab 1735
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Testing the body mass index hypothesis with the data you
have collected: For people of
equal fatness or skinniness, is weight roughly proportional to
the square of height, should there be a different power law, or is there
no good power law? A maple template is located at
Emina's Access page. The data you collected
for us, with a few extra babies and kids, is in
htwtsplus.mws.
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10:30-noon
JWB 335
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"Percolation, polycrystals, polymers and penguins:
the mathematics and physics of Antarctic sea ice and hi-tech
composite materials" lecture by Math Professor
Ken Golden.
The survey paper on his work on Antarctic sea ice is "Icy Math",
in "Science News" 158 #6, 8/12/2000. You can find it
in the
archives of
www.sciencenews.org.
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Friday June 12:
8:30-10:40
PC-Lab 1735
10:40-noon
Marriott Labs
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Work on your week 4
project.pdf.
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