Instructors: Jess Kunke and Adam Visokay
Note for participants: Please see emails and this page for updates before and during the math camp.
Monday, September 9: Parrington Hall, room 320 (9:00am-2:00pm)
Parrington Hall, room 360 (2:00pm-5:00pm)
Tuesday, September 10: Mechanical Engineering Building, room 238 (9:00am-5:00pm)
Wednesday, September 11: Parrington Hall, room 320 (9:00am-2:00pm)
Parrington Hall, room 360 (2:00pm-5:00pm)
Thursday, September 12: Parrington Hall, room 360 (9:00am-5:00pm)
Friday, September 13: Parrington Hall, room 320 (9:00am-2:00pm)
Parrington Hall, room 360 (2:00pm-5:00pm)
9am-12pm: Review math concepts, do practice problems
12-1pm: Lunch/break
1-2pm: Office hour/extra practice
2-4pm: Introduction to R programming language
Slides and materials will be linked in the schedule below as they are made available. Much of the course material provided here was first created by Laina Mercer with developments by Jessica Godwin, Peter Gao, Jess Kunke and Erin Lipman.
Tentative calendar (will be continually updated during the camp):
Day | Math Concepts (AM) | R Lab (PM) |
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Day 1 | Mon 9/9 | |
Part A: Notation, logarithms, exponents, functions, and algebra.
Part B: Linear equations, systems of equations, and limits.
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Lab 1 notes document (click here)
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Day 2 | Tue 9/10 | |
Matrix algebra, matrix arithmetic, determinants, linear equations, and least squares.
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Lab 2 notes document (click here) and data (here)
Script we wrote in class Days 2-3 (click here) |
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Day 3 | Wed 9/11 | |
Derivatives and optimization (finding minima/maxima)
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Lab 3 notes document (click here)
Day 3 Script (click here) |
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Day 4 | Thu 9/12 | |
Intro to probability (sets, basic rules, conditional probability) Random variables (bernoulli, binomial, uniform, normal; expectation, variance) Probability distributions (pmfs/pdfs))
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Lab 4 notes document (click here)
Day 4 script (click here) |
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Day 5. | Fri 9/13 | |
Integrals, Numerical approximation to integrals, Monte Carlo integration Flex time to go over anything that was confusing/could use more practice
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Lab 5 notes document (click here) Lab 5 example Quarto doc (click here)
Day 5 R script (click here) |