• Course Syllabus
• Read Letters from past students
• Course Calendar
• Homework Assignments as they become available
• Lecture Notes for downloading as they become available.
• A Mathematica Guide and information about Mathematica Access.
• Guidelines for your Group Project.
• This semester's Project Statements.
• A link to Blackboard

Key Dates: (subject to change)

• First Day of Class: February 1
• First Exam: March 14
• Project Topic Due: March 16
• Organizational Statement Due: March 30 March 28
  
• Project Draft Due: April 13
  
• Written Project Due: May 4
  
• Second Exam: May 11
• Last Day of Class: May 18
• Project Presentations: May 16, May 18 and on final exam day.
  

Office hours:

I am happy to help you with your homework and other class-related questions during my office hours. I have official office hours as posted on my schedule. In addition, you are welcome to make an appointment or stop by my office in Kiely 409 at any time. I plan to hold extra office hours before the exams.

Modeling links:

• Wolfram Alpha
• The case for fitting data points visually
• Chaos in dynamical systems (Logistic Map)
• Help determine if a variable is dependent or independent
• Sampling methods
• Least-Squares Polynomial Applet
• Modeling using random numbers
• 2D Random Walk Simulation of a walk on an infinite grid.
• 2D Random Walk Simulation of a sailor through city blocks
• Modeling people's behavior for going to a bar
• Crime Fighting and Mathematical Models
• Examples of Correlation not implying Causation (read the first answer)
• Extrapolation: Moore's Law