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   Structure of the Universe
   Chaos & Fractals
  

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Some pictures of Sunday's reception:

Daniel Dryden and parents John and Diana	Fred Becchetti (Physics of Magic) and the Schusters, father and son.
KC Lohmann (Michigan Rocks!) and three MMSS assistants	Delia Williams and Cynthia Kazanis with Sonya Vartivarian and Martha Aliaga of Statistics and the World Around Us
Glenn Fox musters the Field Biologists	Alisha Diggs and Julia Arciero, Math Modeling in Biology

Course Galleries

Links below for Session I: June 29 - July 12, 2003

 

Session II: July 13 - July 26, 2003

Codes, Ciphers and Secret Messages (Dean)
Explorations of a Field Biologist (Schueller)
Mathematical Modeling in Biology (Jackson/Nelson)
Michigan Rocks! (Lohmann/Wilkinson)
Statistics and the World Around Us (Aliaga)
The Nature of Infinity (Uribe)
The Physics of Magic and the Magic of Physics (Becchetti/Raithel)

 

Events

July 14th, 2003
Computer Orientation
1360 East Hall
9:00am (sharp) - 10:00am
All MMSS students required to attend!
You will be met by your instructor afterwards
and brought to your program's homebase.
For those of you using the UNIX machines,
and for whom they are new,
here is a conveneient UNIX tutorial online.

...AND NO MP3's, OK?!

 

Munch and Learn
(Food is provided!)

July 15th, 2003
"Global Change"
296 Dennison Hall
11:45am (sharp) - 1:00pm
MMSS Public Invited! (Parents, UM Community, etc.)
Professor Henry Pollack,
Department of Geological Sciences

Is Earth getting warmer??

July 22nd, 2003
"College Admissions"
Mathematics Atrium, East Hall
11:45am (sharp) - 1:00pm
Susan Perreault, LSA Admissions,
and Andrew Poska,
UM Admissions Office

July 23, 2003
"The Runaway Universe"
8:00pm -- 9:00pm,
Mathematics Atrium, East Hall.
Ice cream provided!
(If you are interested, please see
Amanda or Glenn beforehand!)
This is a showing of a video of a
NOVA program in preparation for
Katie Freese's talk Wednesday (see below).

July 23rd, 2003
"The Dark Side of the Universe"
296 Dennison Hall
11:45am (sharp!) - 1:00pm
NOTE CHANGE OF TIME!

MMSS Public Invited! (Parents, UM Community, etc.)
Professor Katie Freese,
Department of Physics

How many FORCES??

July 25th, 2003

End of Session
Activities and Presentations
MMSS Families and Friends Welcome!

Explorations of a Field Biologist: Posters and presentations from student research projects.
2:00-3:00PM, Math Atrium, East Hall.
Note Change of Location!

Math Modeling in Biology: Project presentation
day and lunch: student research projects.
9:30AM - Noon, 4088 East Hall
Lunch afterwards in 4088 East Hall

Codes, Cyphers and Secret Messages: Cryptic Lunch at Noon:
Location Announcement Encrypted!
Want to break bread? Break the code first!

Statistics and the World Around Us: Student projects,
based on WWW data, for the parents and students.
For time and place information, write Sonya Vartivarian.

 

Please take the time to attend these events. They are intended to add to the experience of the MMSS program.

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Camp Rats!

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Course Galleries from the First Session

Session I: June 29 - July 12, 2003

Fibonacci Numbers (Hochster)
Geometry and the Imagination (Mosher)
Genome Sequences and Human Health (Jeyabalan)
The Large Scale Structure of the Universe (Swift)
The Mysteries of Embryology (Tosney/Balazovich)
Roller Coaster Physics (Gerdes)
Sampling, Surveys, Monte Carlo and Inference (Rothman)
A Journey Through Modern Molecular Science (Coppola)

 

Comments or suggestions? Write to the MMSS Program.
Go to the Daily Camper for the First Session of MMSS 2002.
Back to the MMSS home page .

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