• Course Syllabus
• Read Letters from past students
• Course Calendar
• Homework Assignments as they become available and homework guidelines
  
• Lecture Notes for downloading as they become available
• A Mathematica Guide and information about Mathematica Access (on MyQC)
• Guidelines for your Group Project
• A link to Blackboard

Key Dates: (subject to change)

• First Day of Class: January 30
  
• First Exam: March 12
• Project Topic Due: March 14
• Organizational Statement Due: March 26
  
• Project Draft Due: April 18
  
• Written Project Due: April 25
  
• Second Exam: May 7
• Last Day of Class: May 14
• Project Presentations: May 9, May 14 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.

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
• DataGenetics: A wonderful blog of data driven analysis.