talk: Teaching & Research with Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha, 4/9

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:31:41 -0400
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Teaching & Research with Mathematica 9 and Wolfram|Alpha Pro

2:30-3:45 Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 401 Math/Psyc Building, UMBC

This talk by staff from Wolfram will illustrate capabilities in Mathematica 9 that are directly applicable for use in teaching and research on campus. Topics include the folowing

Free-form linguistic input & predictive interface features

2D and 3D visualization

Dynamic interactivity & On-demand scientific data

Example-driven course materials

Symbolic interface construction

Statistics & Data anaylsis

Digital Image Processing, Parallelization, and Control Systems functionality

The new Wolfram|Alpha Pro website will be featured, demonstrating the following capabilities.

built-in CDF interactivity

automatic creation of interactive models

ability to upload data (spreadsheets, data, text) for instant and

thorough analysis

step-by-step solution guide to many problems

specialized keyboard for mathematical and scientific symbols

export results to over 60 formats

Current Mathematica users will benefit from seeing improvements and new features of Mathematica 9 as well as Wolfram|Alpha Pro but prior knowledge of Mathematica is not required.