MAT 4930: Mathematical Modeling, Fall 2008
Disclaimer: This is a very tentative description of the course I intend to run. I will try to keep this page current. However, any announcment made in class supercedes the contents of this web page. This course will introduce students to the principles of mathematical modeling and some of the basics methods. The emphasis will be on the process of model development, illustrated through a number of examples from various areas of application. Students will be assigned homework and tested on the mathematics arising in the various methods. In addition, students will be assigned a few modeling projects in which to practice the methods. These modeling projects are to be written up formally, and the the final project will be presented in class. We use the text ``A First Course in Mathematical Modeling'' by Giordano, Weir, and Fox. Topics to be covered include Modeling Change, The Modeling Process: similarity, Model Fitting, Experimental Modeling, Simulation Modeling, Discrete Probabilistic Modeling, and Dimensional Analysis.
We hope that this course will provide an answer to the question,
See the 2006 syllabus for some details. There will definitely be some changes in how the class is run, but the topics covered will remain the same. Extended Syllabus
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