• Mathematica Experts Live: Dynamic Interfaces Q&A 2012

    Updated: 2012-07-31 12:22:58
    It’s back! The only event in which Mathematica experts are live on camera to answer your questions: Mathematica Experts Live. The first Mathematica Experts Live virtual event was such a popular success that we’re doing it again. Thank you for your feedback and suggestions. Many of you asked for help with dynamic interfaces, so this [...]

  • Mathematica Summer Camp 2012 Was a Success!

    Updated: 2012-07-31 12:22:58
    Mathematica Summer Camp ran July 1–13 at Curry College. This year we had 22 high school students from all over the world who came together to learn Mathematica. By the end of camp, each student created his or her own Mathematica program, which they presented on Friday. They all worked hard to complete their projects [...]

  • Digging into River-Aquifer Interactions with Mathematica

    Updated: 2012-07-31 12:22:58
    As a PhD candidate in civil engineering, Diego Oviedo-Salcedo needed a computational environment that he could use to not only explore the abstract concepts within his civil engineering research, but also to present and communicate his findings to his advisor, peers, and decision-makers. His solution: Mathematica. Mathematica‘s enhanced built-in statistical analysis capabilities allow Oviedo-Salcedo to [...]

  • Get Ready for the Wolfram Technology Conference 2012

    Updated: 2012-07-31 12:22:58
    Before you know it, it’ll be October and time for the Wolfram Technology Conference 2012. We thought you’d be interested in finding out more about some of the things we’re doing this year. First, we’re offering a social networking and personalized schedule-building tool for all registered attendees. You can connect with your fellow attendees, arrange [...]

  • Explore Wolfram SystemModeler: Free Virtual Conference

    Updated: 2012-07-31 12:22:58
    We are excited to announce the first Wolfram SystemModeler Virtual Conference, to be held Tuesday, June 19. SystemModeler is a complete modeling and simulation tool that handles modeling of systems with mechanical, electrical, thermal, chemical, biological, and other components, as well as combinations of different types of components. This free virtual event will feature a [...]

  • Black-Scholes Option Pricing in MATLAB using the NAG Toolbox

    Updated: 2012-07-23 16:11:03
    #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } A MATLAB user at Manchester University contacted me recently asking about Black-Scholes option pricing.  The MATLAB Financial Toolbox has a range of functions that can calculate Black-Scholes put and call option prices along with several of the sensitivities (or ‘greeks‘) such as blsprice, blsdelta and so on. The user’s problem is that we don’t have any [...]

  • Linting Condor Submission Scripts

    Updated: 2012-07-19 14:41:54
    #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } This is a guest post by colleague and friend, Ian Cottam of The University of Manchester. I recently implemented a lint program for Condor (unsurprisingly called: condor_lint), analogous to the famous one for C of days of yore. That is, it points out the fluff in a Condor script and suggests improvements. It is based on [...]

  • New interactive mathematics website based on Sage

    Updated: 2012-07-14 16:33:23
    #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } If you have an interest in mathematics, you’ve almost certainly stumbled across The Wolfram Demonstrations Project at some time or other.  Based upon Wolfram Research’s proprietary Mathematica software and containing over 8000 interactive demonstrations, The Wolfram Demonstrations Project is a fantastic resource for anyone interested in mathematics and related sciences; and now it has some [...]

  • When software licensing cripples scientific throughput

    Updated: 2012-07-10 10:25:09
    #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } I work for The University of Manchester where, among other things, I assist in the support of various high performance and high throughput computing systems.  Exchanges such as the following are, sadly, becoming all too commonplace Researcher: “Hi, I have an embarrassingly parallel research problem that needs a lot of compute resource.  Can you help?” Support: “Almost [...]

  • Graphene – The Chuck Norris of Materials

    Updated: 2012-07-03 23:15:37
    #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } As everyone knows, Graphene is the Chuck Norris of materials.  Sometimes pure, sometimes mixed with a little of this or that, it has an astonishing array of uses.  Here’s a list of some of the things it can do Amplify light Cool microchips Detect diseases Enable CPUs that can operate at 100s of Ghz Desalinate water Generate electricity from flowing water Generate [...]

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