SUNY Geneseo Department of Mathematics
Wednesday, February 22
Math 230 02
Spring 2017
Prof. Doug Baldwin
Sedar Ngoma, Auburn University (and candidate for a faculty position here)
“Recovering a Diffusion Coefficient in a Parabolic Equation Arising in Geochronology”
Thursday, Feb. 23, 2:30 PM, Newton 203
Extra credit for writing a paragraph or so summarizing connections you make between the talk and your own interests.
Next Monday (Feb. 27)
It will cover material since the beginning of the semester (e.g., Matlab arithmetic, functions, variables, scripts, vectors, plotting, matrices, etc.)
There will be 3 to 5 short-answer questions (i.e., questions requiring about a paragraph of prose, 5 - 10 lines of code, etc. to answer)
You’ll have the whole class period to do the test
It will be open book, open notes, open computer to the extent you use the computer as a reference source. But you can’t communicate in real time with anyone except me during the test.
A short program that plots a surface in 3 dimensions. Combines plotting and matrices.
You may want to think about this before the exam (3D plotting commands per se won’t be on the exam, but the project reviews other things that may be) or not (you should have time to finish this after the exam if you want not to deal with it until then).
See handout for details.
Comparisons and logic
Read sections 5.1 - 5.3