Saturday Morning Math Group

• Saturday September 17, 2005
  

Location: RLM 4.102 (On the UT campus) Group Leader: Dr. Michael Starbird -----------------------------------------------------> Topic: Statistics Title: "Distorting, Misleading, and Lying with Statistics" Poster: Click here for the poster.




The worksheet was 3 pages, here they are:           page1 ,   page2 , and   page3 .

Click here to see the answer to the famous tragedy page.

Here are some pictures from the meeting!

• Saturday October 8, 2005
  

Location: RLM 4.102 (On the UT campus) Group Leader: Dr. Jack Calcut ---------------------------------------------------------------------------> Topic: Relativity Title: " Relativity: Understanding Some Physical Principles, Mathematics, and Geometry" Poster: Click here for the poster.




Here are the slides from the talk.
Here is the worksheet .
And here are a couple of pictures from the meeting.

• Saturday October 22, 2005

Location: RLM 4.102 (On the UT campus) Group Leader: Dr. Okan Arikan -----------------------------------------------------> Topic: Computer Graphics and Rendering Title: "Computer Graphics and Realistic Lighting" Poster: Click here for the poster.

Here are a couple of pictures from the meeting.

Check out some of the drawings that were done by students. We were trying to shade the room while thinking about the indirect light.


Here is the picture that was generated by Okan's computer algorithm.

• Saturday December 3, 2005

Location: RLM 4.102 (On the UT campus) Group Leader: Dr. Felipe Voloch -----------------------------------------------------> Topic: Google! Title: "Google: The Page-Rank Algorithm" Poster: Click here for the poster.




Here are a few links related to Dr. Voloch's talk:

An article about page rank on Wikipedia.
This is a link to the original paper of Brin and Page.
This is the Page Rank Calculator that we used on Saturday.

And here are some photos from the meeting.

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