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Speaker and Activities Calendar

We meet basically every other Friday at 4:00 pm in DH 1064. The following is a tentative calendar with upcoming activities and speakers.

January 12, 2007: - Juan Meza, LBNL
January 26, 2007: - Klaus Wiegand, ExxonMobil
February 9, 2007: - Amit Joshi - Applied Mathematics as Applied to Molecular Imaging
February 23, 2007
March 16, 2007
March 30, 2007: - MCM teams present
April 13, 2007: - Session about math/caam/stat
April 27, 2007: - Election, wrap up and closing remarks

Past events:

October 2005

Rescheduled from Sept 23 to Oct 7, 2005. DH 1046, 3-4pm

Dr. Mark Embree - Scientific graphics: theory and practice

The graphical presentation of scientific data plays an essential role in applied and computational mathematics. Your calculations may easily involve trillions of numbers that you must summarize in carefully designed plots that clearly and concisely illuminate.

Despite the importance of visual presentation, our field is rife with examples of ill-conceived illustrations. Among the cardinal sins committed by such graphics: data-impoverished plots, poor use of graphical elements (line widths, font sizes, colors), and overuse of "chart junk" -- extraneous legends, arrows, color bars, and other features that steal attention from your hard-computed data.

In this informal talk, we shall first describe some of the common traits shared by compelling scientific plots. Our guide will be Edward Tufte's classic text, " The Visual Display of Quantitative Information". After addressing these theoretical concerns, we will move to a more practical issue: the use of MATLAB to create graphics consistent with our theoretical principles. [Slides]

Oct 13 : 12-1pm

Westside Highschool outreach lunch, DH 3092

Oct 19 : 12-1pm

Graduate seminar: Dr. Yin Zhang, DH 1064

November 2005

Nov 11 : 4pm

John Sabino, Fernando Guevara & Fernando G. del Cueto. [Slides]
Please join us for a discussion group about one of the trickier aspects of research: collecting and organizing scholarly articles. The intent of this meeting is to learn what has and has not worked for graduate students as they have prepared their theses. (Don't repeat our mistakes!) The officers will direct the discussions, which are intended to be highly interactive with the attendees. Hopefully we will all learn a trick or two for making our research efforts a bit easier!

Discussions will include:

how to use the resources available to Rice students to get hard-to-obtain articles and books
software to help you organize your collected materials
how to use BibTeX effectively

More past events:

Date	Speaker or Activities	Meeting Place
Sep 17, 2004	Introductory meeting	DH 1070
Oct 4, 2004	Dr. Steve Cox, on outreach programs	Sid College prvt. dining room
Oct 18, 2004	Dr. Ramesh Neelamani, ExxonMobil	DH1064
Nov 1, 2004	Veritas DGC, subject TBA	DH1064
Nov 15, 2004	Dr. Steve Ludkte, Baylor College of Medicine	DH1064
Nov 29, 2004	Dr. Vibhor Mehrotra, Bechtel Oil, Gas and Chemical Business Unit	DH1064
Jan 24, 2005	Dr. Neil Biehn, PROS Revenue Management	DH 1064
Feb 7 , 2005	Rice SIAM Chapter 50-digit challenge.	DH 1064
Mar 14, 2005	Dr. Ming Zhang, MD Anderson.	DH 1064
Mar 28, 2005	Tony Elam, Assistant Dean of Engineering and Executive Director of CITI, Rice University. "Games: the state of the industry and their role in education."	DH 1064
Apr 18, 2005	Marty Golubitsky, President of SIAM , “ A Tale of Two Topics: SIAM and Gaits ”.	DH 1064
May 2, 2005	No invited talk, elections and wrap-up	DH 1064