Mathematica Talks and Tutorials

These talks are all available as Mathematica notebooks, many of which have been compressed. If you don't have Mathematica, you can read them by downloading Math Reader
Exploring Mathematica
Given at the Park City Mathematics Institute, July 2005.
Using Mathematica Effectively for Research
A lecture given in at the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University in July, 2004.
2003 International Mathematica Symposium
Tutorials given at the 2003 International Mathematica Symposium at Imperial College in London, July, 2003.
Japanese Mathematica Users Group
A seminar given virtually by me over Webex for the Japanese Mathematica Users Group meeting on June 7, 2003.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
A seminar given in March, 2002 at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Includes an introductory session on Mathematica (Intro.nb) and a more advanced session on programming with Mathematica (Programming.nb).

Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation
Annotated Mathematica package for solving the nonlinear Schrodinger equation using the Fourier split-step method with automatic time step control. Includes notebooks which show some results computed with the package code.

International Mathematica Symposium Talk
A talk on "Numerical Mathematica" for the 2001 International Mathematica Symposium . Included is a version of the notebook with explanatory text translated to Japanese (you will find these by name_j.nb).

Multiplication
A talk I gave at the University of Southern Maine on multiplying large numbers. This is meant to be accessible for more advanced undergraduates.

1999 Mathematica developer conference.
Two talks, one I presented remotely, and one presented for me by Tom Wickham-Jones at the October 1999 Mathematica developer conference in Champaign.

Los Alamos National Laboratory
A general presentation about Mathematica given in spring 2000. The notebooks include a variety of examples.

1999 International Mathematica Symposium talks
A set of talks given about numerical topics in Mathematica at the 1999 International Mathematica Symposium held at RISC Linz. The "Numerics Tutorial" is an advanced level tutorial on the efficient use of Mathematica's numerical capabilities. The "NLS Talk" is about some simulations I did with the nonlinear Schrodinger equation and includes code for computing solutions.

1998 Mathematica User Conference tutorial notebook on numerical ODE and PDE solvers.
This talk was given in June 1998 at the Worldwide Mathematica Conference in Chicago, IL.

Developer Conference 97 Numerics Tutorial
This talk was given in October, 1997 at the Mathematica Developer's confernce in Champaign, IL.

Mathematica Numerics (860K)
This talk was last given at the joint mathematics meetings in January, 1996. It includes a brief description of some of Mathematica's numerical functions and examples showing how to control the precision and accuracy of both arithmetic and numerical results.

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Advanced Numerics Tutorial(440K)
This talk was given in December, 1995, at Tokyo Denai University in Japan in a state-of-the-art computer lab which allowed participants to interactively try the commands as the talk proceeded. The talk uses the problem of computing eigenfunctions for a nonuniform clamped string to show how different numerical functions can be used in concert to solve real problems.

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