Mathematica Workshops
- To: MathGroup
- Subject: Mathematica Workshops
- From: nb at sunburn.stanford.edu
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 15:04:06 PST
---------------- MmaWorkshops Announcement ------------------------
Subject: 2-Day Mathematica Workshops in Berkeley, Boston, and New York
I thought you might be interested to know about these workshops.
Nancy
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Workshop Topics
Day 1: Introduction to Mathematica
Day 2: Morning: Introduction to Programming in Mathematica
Day 2: Afternoon: Additional Programming Topics
Location and Dates
Berkeley January 28-29, 1993
Boston February 17-18, 1993
New York March 11-12, 1993
Berkeley/Oakland March 22-23, 1993
Detailed information on location will be sent to participants upon
registration. Additional sites for the remainder of 1993 include
Denver, Atlanta, Dallas, Madison, Austin, and Washington, D.C.
Course Descriptions
Introduction to Mathematica
This session provides a nuts-and-bolts approach that will make it easier to
learn and use Mathematica, bringing together ideas and techniques that are
scattered throughout the literature. You will learn how to find commands that
you need, understand what they do, and use them effectively. You will learn
to use Mathematica to manipulate expressions, find roots, solve differential
equations, and visualize functions and data.
Introduction to Programming in Mathematica and Additional Programming Topics
This session will help you get started programming in Mathematica. We start by
showing you how to write functions. You will learn about different types of
assignment statements as well as patterns you can use to specify arguments to
functions. Because the pattern matching capabilities in Mathematica are
powerful and can often simplify programs, we show examples of functions
expressions that pattern-matching. We then cover importing, exporting,
and formatting data and expressions and conclude by describing the mechanisms
used in Mathematica packages and explaining how to use them effectively.
After this course you should be able to read and write data from ASCII
files and write your own Mathematica package.
About the Instructor
Nancy Blachman is founder and president of Variable Symbols, a company that
specializes in helping people mathematical software more effectively. She
is an instructor at Stanford University, where she teaching a class in problem
solving with Mathematica. Ms. Blachman has been an invited speaker at the
last three Mathematica conferences. She holds degrees in mathematics,
operations research and computer science from the University of Birmingham
(U.K.), the University of California at Berkeley, and Stanford University.
Training Materials
Each participant will receive a copy of Nancy Blachman's book "Mathematica:
A Practical Approach" (Prentice-Hall, 1992), and the "Mathematica Quick
Reference, Version 2" (Addison-Wesley and Variable Symbols, 1992).
Cost
Cost of attending either 1-day session in $250.
Cost of attending the entire 2-day Workshop is $400.
Save 10% if you register 30 days in advance.
Registration
For information on this workshop, call Variable Symbols, or mail or fax the
following information form.
Variable Symbols, Inc. * 2161 Shattuck Ave, Suite 202 * Berkeley, CA 94704-1313
Telephone 510-843-8701 Fax 510-843-8702
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INFORMATION FORM
[ ] Please send me information on Variable Symbols' Mathematica workshops.
I would like to attend in the following location:
[ ] Berkeley January 28-29, 1993
[ ] Boston February 17-18, 1993
[ ] New York March 11-12, 1993
[ ] Berkeley/Oakland March 22-23, 1993
I would like to attend the following workshops:
[ ] Introduction to Mathematica
[ ] Introduction to Programming and Additional
Programming Topics
[ ] I am unable to attend but please let me know about other
workshops. I would be interested in workshops in the
following cities:_______________________________________
[ ] Please add my name to your mailing list.
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Variable Symbols, Inc.
2161 Shattuck Ave., Suite 202
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Telephone 510-843-8701
Fax 510-843-8702