UW Mathematics CURL
Summary
The University's of Wisconsin's Collaborative Undergraduate Research Laboratory (that's CURL for short) is a gathering of undergraduates, graduate students, and UW faculty engaged in exploring mathematical phenomena of all kinds. Whatever the topic of a specific CURL might be, the focus is always on genuine research questions that are appealing and accessible to undergraduates.
The featured project for Fall 2004 is mathematical biology.
How it works
The faculty leaders this semester are Alexander Kiselev, Paul Milewski, Julie Mitchell and Jim Propp, with assistance from John Vano. The graduate intern has not yet been chosen.
You can read the minutes of all the CURL meetings that were held during Fall 2004.
CURL undergraduate participants meet for 4 hours a week, and are expected to invest roughly 6 additional hours per week outside of group meetings. They are paid on an hourly basis. Team-work (and more particularly the sort of brainstorming that occurs when all group-members are present) will play a pivotal role in the success of the research. Consequently, regular attendance will be required.
A course in mathematical biology, Math 491, is being offered in conjunction with CURL during Fall 2004. (It is possible to take Math 491 without participating in the CURL, and vice versa, but many students will find them to be complementary and mutually reinforcing, as Math 491 provides tools that will be helpful to students tackling research problems in the CURL.)
People
The Collaborative Undergraduate Research Laboratory for Mathematical Biology consisted of the following people:
Undergraduate participants:
- David Andrzejewski (Fall 2004, Spring 2005) email, web.
- Lam Raga Anggara Markely (Spring 2005) email, web.
- Carl Edquist (Fall 2004, Spring 2005) email, web.
- Morgan Franklin (Fall 2004) email, web.
- Paul Heideman email, web.
- Jeremy Jacobson email, web.
- Mitch Jaeger (Spring 2005) email, web.
- Phillip Rydzewski (Spring 2005) email, web.
- Matt Ward (Fall 2004) email.
Postdocs and faculty:
- Alex Kiselev (Fall 2004, Spring 2005) email, web.
- Paul Milewski (Fall 2004, Spring 2005) email, web.
- Julie Mitchell (Fall 2004, Spring 2005) email, web.
- Jim Propp (Fall 2004, Spring 2005) email, web.
- John Vano (Fall 2004, Spring 2005)
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Note: Each member of the CURL maintains their own curl webpage with calculations and a general "journal" of their research. These pages are links under each persons name. In addition to there is a group email allias: curl_f04@math.wisc.edu.
Other Notes
- 9-9-04: Some notes and MATLAB files related to the meeting.
- 9-14-04: A Matlab tutorial that Jeremy found and mentioned at the meeting. Jeremy also found this continuation software in Matlab project.
- 9-29-04: Some notes and MATLAB files Paul Milewski sent.
- 9-29-04: Julie Mitchell presented a latex tutorial. Here is the pdf and here is the raw latex file.
- 10-12-04: Paul Milewski sent out this file (cn.m) implementing the Crank Nicholson implicit scheme for solving the diffusion equation with u=0 boundary conditions that was discuss in lab.