From horton at cs.virginia.edu Wed Aug 15 17:29:24 2007 From: horton at cs.virginia.edu (Tom Horton) Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:29:24 -0400 Subject: [Ugrads07] Fall 07 ugrad TAs/graders needed! Message-ID: <46C37034.1040704@cs.virginia.edu> Students taking CS classes: [Apologies to any graduated students getting this -- we're in the process of cleaning up the email lists] Interested in working as a TA or grader for the CS department this coming term? We're looking for undergrads to be graders or TAs for many of our CS courses. You don't have to be a CS or CpE major. (So pass the word to any other non-majors who might be interested.) To apply, fill out form at http://www.cs.virginia.edu/jobs/ and look for the link for "Graders and TAs". (We have a system for collecting application info. It now keeps you from having to re-enter info about your grades and if you've TA'd before. Send comments or bug-reports on this system to me.) The pay rates are on the Web application form. But there are reasons other than money why you might want to work for us. This is one way to get to know CS professors (perhaps to get a reference or find a Sr. Thesis advisor). It might be good for your resume. Perhaps most importantly, we in CS know that you undergrads play an important role in helping deliver high quality CS courses at UVa! One comment: there seems to be less money this term than in the past, so we won't be hiring quite as many students as in the past. But don't let that stop you from applying! Work-study student? If you are registered and eligible in the UVa work-study program, please apply and also drop me an email. (We'd only have to pay part of your salary, so that's a good thing.) DEADLINE: Instructors will begin to review applications starting in the morning of Friday, August 24th, so apply before then please. We'll do our best to let you know before classes start. Questions about your application status should be sent to money at cs.virginia.edu (not me) or to the course instructor. Thanks! P.S. Students often ask me if there's anything they can do to help them get the job with the course they want. The answer is to go talk to the instructor, so that he or she knows who you are and that you've applied. When we get all the applications, the instructors are sent a list of who applied and they tell us who they'd prefer to have. If you talk to the instructor at some point before we go over the applications, there is a better chance they're indicate that they'd like to have you working for them. P.P.S. Perhaps you're interesting in helping occasionally with a lab or office hours or tutoring, but don't want to commit to a regular, weekly job. If that sounds interesting to you, reply to me directly and tell me that -- we are going to start keeping a list of volunteers. -- Dr. Tom Horton, Associate Professor Dept. of Computer Science, University of Virginia 151 Engineer's Way, P.O. Box 400740 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4740 Phone: 434 982-2217 FAX: 434 982-2214 horton at virginia.edu http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~horton From jjd3r at virginia.edu Fri Aug 17 19:23:20 2007 From: jjd3r at virginia.edu (Jack Dorning) Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 18:23:20 -0500 Subject: [Ugrads07] Registration: Chaos & Bifurcation (A Special Topics Course) Message-ID: <33E1D063B00DE34335949D1A@[192.168.0.7]> Dear Engineering, Math or Science Undergraduate Student, Attached, as a MS WORD document, is the description of a special topics course that is being offered this coming semester (Fall, 2007) which you might find of some interest. The description also is included below as regular e-mail text. Best regards, Jack Dorning ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- A SPECIAL TOPICS COURSE - FALL 2007 APMA-648(Sec.1)/EP-733(Sec.1)/MAE-692(Sec.2), Schedule No. APMA-904U8/EP-900CU/MAE-90036 AN INTRODUCTION TO BIFURCATION, STABILITY AND CHAOS IN NONLINEAR DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS Instructor: J. Dorning, Tel. 982-5460 Prerequisites: Elementary Ordinary Differential Equations and Graduate Standing, or Consent of Instructor. Meeting Time and Place: MW 5:00-6:15, Rm. D-223, Thornton Hall Complex, Engineering School. Purpose: The purpose of this course is to introduce graduate students in engineering and applied science, applied mathematics, physics, mathematics, chemistry, astronomy, biology, etc. to the basic concepts and applications of modern bifurcation theory, the theory of nonlinear dynamical systems, and deterministic "chaos," and to demonstrate some of their implications for practical systems. In this spirit, examples will be taken from the engineering, physical, chemical, astronomical and biological sciences. Background material necessary to understand the examples will be provided as part of their development; hence, there are no prerequisites in the areas of the applications. Presentation: The basic ideas normally will be developed through simple explicit examples, with detailed theorems and proofs being introduced only when necessary. (The first three or four lectures will be comprised of an extended "slide show" to introduce the field, convey the general ideas, and supply some background material.) Goal: Recent developments in the understanding of nonlinear phenomena may revolutionize mankind's thinking in practically all areas of endeavor. Our thinking may have to be revised in many ways, including the impossibility of prediction of the evolution of certain non-random or deterministic systems - systems as diverse as lasers, insect populations, and the stock market. It is hoped that this course will supply graduate students with the background necessary to participate in this "revolution" or at the very least, to understand it! COURSE OUTLINE I. Introduction and Overview of Course: "From One First-Order Linear ODE to 'Chaos' in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems" (a one-hour "slide show" with handouts - first lecture). II. Basic Concepts of Stability Theory and Local Static Bifurcation. Examples. III. Local Dynamic Bifurcation: Hopf Bifurcation. Examples. IV. Introduction to the Geometric Theory of ODEs. Examples. V. Limit Sets, Local Geometry and Asymptotic Behavior. Examples. VI. Center Manifolds and Normal Forms. Liapunov-Schmidt Reduction. VII. Structural Stability and Elementary Catastrophe Theory. Examples. VIII. Nonlinear Discrete Maps: Poincar? Sections, Experimental Data. IX. Universality in Chaos: The Feigenbaum Ratios. Paths to Chaos. X. Chaotic or "Strange" Attractors: Properties, Fractal Dimension, Etc. Examples in Numerous Areas - From Astronomy to Zoology. XI. A Few Words about Numerical Methods for Bifurcation Problems. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: APMA-648 F07 Course Announ E-Mail Att.doc Type: application/msword Size: 28672 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.cs.virginia.edu/pipermail/ugrads07/attachments/20070817/8cf228ad/attachment-0001.doc From horton at cs.virginia.edu Thu Aug 23 11:53:00 2007 From: horton at cs.virginia.edu (Tom Horton) Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:53:00 -0400 Subject: [Ugrads07] ugrads email-lists to be updated! Message-ID: <46CDAD5C.70705@cs.virginia.edu> Warning! I am about to update all the CS/CpE email lists: ugrads09, ugrads08, ugrads07. This means: a) We have to un-subscribe everyone from those three lists. You'll get a "good-bye" message. b) ugrads07 will be removed. (So long recent graduates! No more class announcements etc. from us!) c) We'll use a recent list from the registrar to add 3rd and 4th years back into the ugrads09 and ugrads08 lists. You'll get a re-subscription message. d) We'll create a new list ugrads10 for the rising 2nd years. For those who are re-subscribed: a) If you aren't re-subscribed the way you think you ought to be, please contact me by email. b) Also contact me if you are no longer a CS or CpE major in SEAS. We do ask you to stay subscribed if you really are a major. This is the best way we have of getting important info out to you. You should never get spam or UCE (unsolicited commercial email) on this list. A list administrator has to allow every message that goes out on these lists. Tom Horton -- Dr. Tom Horton, Associate Professor Dept. of Computer Science, University of Virginia 151 Engineer's Way, P.O. Box 400740 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4740 Phone: 434 982-2217 FAX: 434 982-2214 horton at virginia.edu http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~horton