Instructor: Professor Wiggins, rm 205 S. W. Mudd

Location: 833 Mudd (note the new room!!!) Tuesdays, 4:10-5:00 pm

Office hours: by appointment.

URL: www.columbia.edu/~chw2

Manifesto (w/grading policy)

Schedule:
• September 6,
  Chris Wiggins, Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University:
  This is our ``getting to know you" talk -- a chance to find out what the Seminar is all about as well as where I'm coming from. Handouts can be found here:
  • instructions and grading policy
  • my personal definition of applied mathematics
• September 13,
  Joanna Keh (SEAS 2002), Equity, Citigroup, Hong Kong:
  Joanna is a recent alumna and will tell us about math and money.
• September 20,
  Ethan T Coon, Graduate Student, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University:
  This is a chance to envision your possible immediate future, for those of you considering going on to graduate school in the next year or two. It will give you a chance to find out what a graduate student does, and how and why one pursues a Ph.D.
  Links mentioned in Ethan's talk:
  • NSF REU's
  • Math-earth Institutes:
    • Scripps Institution of Oceanography
    • The Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO)
    • The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)
• September 27,
  David Keyes, Professor, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University:
  Professor Keyes is a full professor of Applied Mathematics, and will provide us with a great perspective on the diversity of research in the Computational Mathematics community both within Columbia and across the country. He will also discuss summer internship and other opportunities which might interest you.
  Some of the students requested information on the talks Professor Keyes gave. The main talk is #5 below. The few slides at the end were excerpted out of talk #6 below. Talks #1 through #4 are talks that professor Keyes has given to both undergraduate and graduate students, both at Columbia and elsewhere as part of the SIAM Visiting Lecturer Program, and may be of interest as well.
  1. general one-hour talk for undergraduate math clubs on why to major in math:
  2. brief outline for undergraduates of suggestions for beginning to think professionally about applied math:
  3. profile of the Columbia Applied Mathematics program faculty interests:
  4. orientation for graduate students to doctoral study and thinking professionally about applied math:
  5. seminar for introducing undergraduates to scientific simulation:
  6. orientation for summer students to my institute at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory:
  Please report suggestions on these talks back to Professor Keyes, if you have any. Let me know if you want any other of these talks presented later (especially #1).
• October 4,
  Mark Johnson, Operations Analyst, NetFlix, Inc., and Founder, SportMetrika,, Inc:
  After finishing his PhD in Applied and Computational Mathematics in 1998, Mark has had several professional mathematical experiences in Silicon Valley as well as acting as a consultant for the Commissioner of Major League Baseball and as the in-house Baseball Analyst for the 2004 National League Champion St. Louis Cardinals. He will discuss some of the problems he has encountered along the way.
  Dr. Johnson's lecture notes
• October 11,
  Harish Bhat, Chu Instructor, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University:
  The next step after a PhD is often postdoctoral research. For that reason we will next have Harish Bhat, who just finished his PhD a few months ago and is now joining Columbia's Applied Mathematics Group, tell us about his research and his experiences completing a Ph.D. and making the transition to an independent ground-breaking scientist.
  Here's a link to the NSF fellowship Prof. Bhatt encouraged you to apply to. His slides will be available soon.
• October 18,
  Negar Dolatabadi, FFSEAS, Columbia University:
  Negar will discuss the $1 Million Millennium Problems in Mathematics.
• October 25,
  Braxton Osting, a real life graduate student in Applied Mathematics at Columbia, will give a brief presentation about the COMAP competition. Braxton can be emailed here. Then,
  Adam Sobel will give a presentation on the mathematical modeling of hurricanes.