Mathematics and Physical Science Seminar

Wednesdays 7:10 - 9 PM

1060 Bainer

Dr. Rod Cole

Office hours: M 2:10 PM, Th 11 AM

245 PG, (530) 752-6234

2260 Dutton, (530) 752-2013

email: rwcole@ucdavis.edu

Winter Syllabus

Winter Quarter 2008 Schedule:

Date
Speaker
Profession
Topic
1/9
Rod
technical writing specialist

Learning Skills Center

 Writing Abstracts for Scientific Publications

URC
1/16
Experiment.

MURPPS Students.

 Experiments in Cracking the Egg-data.
1/23
Class Discussion.
MURPPS Students.
 Theory of Suddenly Stopping Objects and Graphing Data.
1/30
MURPPS Night.
Finding a Mentor.
 URC and Finding a Mentor.
2/6
Zhaojun Bai.
Computer Science/Math
 Computational Mathematics.
2/13
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2/20
Class Discussion.
final paper prep.
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2/27
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3/5
MURPPS students.
Egg Drop Rules.
 Egg drop.
3/12
MURPPS students.
seminar
 Final Presentations
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Fall Syllabus

Fall Quarter 2007 Schedule :

Date
Speaker
Profession
Topic
10/3
Palma Lower
technical writing specialist

Learning Skills Center

 Writing Abstracts for Scientific Publications

URC.
10/10
Dr. Rod Cole

Physics

 Web-base Simulations and Learning and writing abstracts.
10/17
Liz Shoemaker
Astronomy
 Observational Astronomy - meets at 7 pm on the roof of Physics/Geology.

Astronomy picture of the day
10/24
Prof. Rahman Azari.
Statistics
 http://www.epi.ucdavis.edu/F-azarir.htm.
10/31
Prof. Krishnan Nambiar
Chemistry
 http://www.chem.ucdavis.edu/people/nambiar.shtml.
11/7
Dr. Rod Cole
Physics
 Abstracts Revisted.
11/15
Paty Millan & Cheng Saechao.
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 MURPPS Undergraduate Research at UCD.
11/21
Tom Turkey
odd bird
 no class - Happy Thanksgiving
11/28
Prof Dawn Sumner.
Geology
 http://www-geology.ucdavis.edu/~sumner/.
12/6
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