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The Daily Camper 2003

July 11, 2003

Have a safe trip home!
Thanks for coming to MMSS 2003!


Photos of Astronomers' visit to Media Union (7/3).

--> the Matrix transformation?? -->




Icosahedron 2003

Zome Tools

New! The Geometers' Icosahedron Project 2003
and Zome Tools (7/10).



New! The Roller Coaster Physicists at Cedar Point
and in the Lab (7/9).

(and comments from last year's RCPers)

New! First Pictures of the Astronomers' Local Group
Scale Model on the Diag (7/12).

 

Course Galleries

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)

 

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

Munch and Learn
(Food is provided!)

July 3rd, 2003
"Option Pricing: the 3 Quadrillion Dollar Question"
Room B844 East Hall
11:45am (sharp) - 1:00pm
MMSS Public Invited! (Parents, UM Community, etc.)
Professor Michael Sullivan
Department of Mathematics


The NY Stock Exchange

The Trading Board

July 7th, 2003
MMSS Star Party!

Hubble photo: NGC-7742

Angell Hall Observatory
(accessible form 5th floor Angell Hall -- follow the signs!)
9:30pm
MMSS Public Invited! (Parents, UM Community, etc.)
Hosted by Carrie Swift and MMSS Astronomers
Check here at 4 PM Monday, July 7, for a Star Party weather bulletin!
CANCELED DUE TO CLOUDY WEATHER!
Sorry! Can't be rescheduled for this session!
(Observatory booked solid the remaining evenings.)


July 8th, 2003
"College Admissions"
Mathematics Atrium, East Hall
11:45am (sharp) - 1:00pm
Susan Perreault, LSA Admissions,
and Andrew Poska,
UM Admissions Office

 

July 10th, 2003
"Machine Learning"
296 Dennison Hall
11:45am (sharp) - 1:00pm
NOTE CHANGE OF DATE AND TIME!
MMSS Public Invited! (Parents, UM Community, etc.)
Professor Kerby Shedden,
Department of Statistics


Early example...

Neural network

July 11th, 2003
"Simulating the Local Group"
The Diag (Big M in front of the Main Library)
11:30am - 2:00pm
MMSS Public Invited! (Parents, UM Community, etc.)
Carrie Swift, Julia Plummer and the MMSS Astronomers


July 15th, 2003
"Global Change"
296 Dennison
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 23rd, 2003
"The Dark Side of the Universe"
Room TBA
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Followed by "Ice Cream Social"
MMSS Public Invited! (Parents, UM Community, etc.)
Professor Katie Freese,
Department of Physics

How many FORCES??

 

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



Camp Rats!

Your Staff
Doreen, Warren, Jennifer, Laura, Charmise, Chris

Your Director
Dan

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