ACCESS-UGS 1430
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College of Science
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Send e-mail to :
Nick Korevaar
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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:
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8:30-10:10 a.m.
JTB 120 |
Geometric scaling: how to rescale space and Bob with affine transformations. |
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10:30-12:00 JTB 120 |
What are fractals and how can you turn Bob into one? |
Tuesday July 9:
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8:00 - 9:00 a.m. Student Union Room 293 |
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 |
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 |
Math class advising with Angie Gardiner, our Department's Director of Undergraduate Services. |
Wednesday July 10:
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8:30-10:10 a.m. PC-Lab 1735 |
Making your own fractals with Maple. |
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10:30-noon JTB 120 |
"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. |
Thursday July 11:
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8:30-10:10 a.m. PC-Lab 1735 |
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 |
"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. |
Friday June 12:
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8:30-10:40 PC-Lab 1735 10:40-noon Marriott Labs |
Work on your week 4 project.pdf. |