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Mathematics + Cancer: An Undergraduate Bridge Course in Applied Mathematics
27 Feb 2020 |
Posted by Brian Winkel
We take this opportunity (every opportunity actually!) to share with you this remarkable article in SIAM Review. We suggest you get a copy and let it flow over you with wonderful ideas for modeling...
https://www.simiode.org/blog/2020/02/mathematics--cancer-an-undergraduate-bridge-course-in-applied-mathematics
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Conference Board of the Mathematical Science Report Due Out Soon
13 Feb 2018 |
Posted by Brian Winkel
CONFERENCE BOARD OF THE MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
Every five years, the Conference Board of Mathematics Sciences (CBMS) sponsors a national survey that collects data about curriculum, pedagogy,...
https://www.simiode.org/blog/2018/02/conference-board-of-the-mathematical-science-report-due-out-soon
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Breathless Classroom. . .
07 Feb 2018 |
Posted by Brian Winkel
My son is Dr. Doan Winkel, Director, Muldoon Center for Entrepreneurship, John Carroll University, Cleveland Heights OH USA.
He is leading a session at the 4th Annual California...
https://www.simiode.org/blog/2018/02/breathless-classroom--
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Differential Equations in Biology and Agricultural Sciences - Resources and Reviews
24 May 2017 |
Posted by Brian Winkel
We received an email today from Professor Chris Rawlings, Head of Computational and Analytical Sciences, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, about resources and...
https://www.simiode.org/blog/2017/05/differential-equations-in-biologiy-and-agricultural-sciences---resources-and-reviews
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Grateful to MAA FOCUS
18 May 2017 |
Posted by Brian Winkel
We are very grateful to Jacqueline Jensen-Vallin, Editor of MAA FOCUS, for publishing our article, Let's Do It: Using Modeling in the Classroom, in the April/May 2017 issue of the...
https://www.simiode.org/blog/2017/05/grateful-to-maa-focus
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The real meaning of what we produce and do
13 Dec 2016 |
Posted by Brian Winkel
Tonight my wife and I attended a lecture performance on Dimitri Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 8 as a part of the “What Makes It Great” series offered by Rob Kapilow at the...
https://www.simiode.org/blog/2016/12/the-real-meaning-of-what-we-produce-and-do
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Intellectual Mathematics - Now There's a Grabber Title
12 Nov 2016 |
Posted by Brian Winkel
Intellectual Mathematics is a website written and run by Viktor Blåsjö of Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He has a keen sense of what should be important in teaching undergraduate...
https://www.simiode.org/blog/2016/11/intellectual-mathematics---now-theres-a-grabber
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Applied Mathematics in MAA Journal Mathematics Magazine
20 Oct 2016 |
Posted by Brian Winkel
Mike Jones is the Editor of the MAA journal Mathematics Magazine. In a lunch conversation yesterday with Mike he noted that the magazine is looking for articles of an applied mathematics nature....
https://www.simiode.org/blog/2016/10/applied-mathematics-in-maa-journal-mathematics-magazine
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Differential Equations as Terrorism
10 May 2016 |
Posted by Brian Winkel
This week two colleagues sent me reports from MSN.COM and FOX NEWS about the same event. The latter offered a more succinct summary,
"An Ivy League professor says his flight was delayed when...
https://www.simiode.org/blog/2016/05/differential-equations-as-terrorism
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Can we teach differential equations in a modeling first approach?
19 Nov 2015 |
Posted by Brian Winkel
At SIMIODE - Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations we BELIEVE students can learn differential equations using mathematical modeling to...
https://www.simiode.org/blog/2015/11/can-we-teach-differential-equations-in-a-modeling-first-approach