And Speaking of Biologists and Mathematics

Well, I see that Nick has been a little more active this last month.  Thus, it is with great guilt that I try to step beyond my laziness and post something!
First, some announcements:

I am going to try keeping the Mathematical Biology Seminar going this Fall quarter, though the meetings will be every other week.  My [...]

Mathematical Biology Seminar

Felicis and I are running a Mathematical Biology Seminar here at PSU. Felicis has been helping to bring us all up to speed on some of the basic Neuroanatomy of Hearing. (We’re starting with a paper co-authored by Lars Holmstrom of PSU entitled: Responses to Social Vocalizations in the Inferior Colliculus [...]

CAMG: First Meeting Notes

OK, so it’s the weekend after the second meeting… Better late than never. I was not able to make it to the second meeting, which is a shame since Saij tells me it was quite interesting! I’ll see if I can get Eric to post what he covered…
As for the first meeting, [...]

The equivalent definitions of ‘topology’…

From Armstrong:
On page 13, we have definition 1.3:
Given a set and for each point in a nonempty collection of subsets of , called neighborhoods of . These neighborhoods are required to satisfy four axioms:

lies in each of its neighborhoods.
The intersection of two neighborhoods of is also a neighborhood [...]

Let’s Study Linear Algebra

For anyone interested in getting a jump ahead for MTH 444/544: Advance Linear/Multilinear Algebra, we’ll be meeting at 10 a.m. on Monday, 17 December in the Neuberger Atrium. Read the first four sections of the text (up through page 33) and be ready to discuss all the homework problems. That is – [...]

LaTeX Follow Up

So we only had three people show up, but that’s better than none! If anyone else is interested, post a comment, and we’ll try to set up another session.As for what we discussed — see below!

LaTeX Get-Together

When: 10 a.m. Tuesday, 11 December 07
Where: 3rd Floor Atrium, Neuberger Hall, PSU Campus
What: Installing and Learning (Basic) LaTeX. Bring your laptops (if you have one), or whatever computer on which you plan to do your homework. Extra laptops (as loaners) and power strips would probably be helpful. Also have some [...]