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    Four undergraduates in the University of Maryland’s College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences (CMNS) have been awarded 2025 scholarships by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation, which encourages students to pursue advanced study and research careers in the sciences, engineering and mathematics.  Over the last 16 years, UMD’s nominations… Read More

  • Announcing the Winners of the Frontiers of Science Awards

    Congratulations to our colleagues who won the 2025 Frontiers of Science Award: - Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner, for his join paper with Humbler and Seyfaddini: “Proof of the simplicity conjecture”, Annals of Mathematics 2024. - Dima Dolgopyat & Adam Kanigowski, for their joint paper with Federico Rodriguez Hertz: “Exponential mixing implies Bernoulli”, Annals of Mathematics… Read More

  • 2024 Putnam Results

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    Maryland Global, published a great interview with our visiting professor (and diplomat), Qendrim Gashi. The interview is available at https://marylandglobal.umd.edu/about/news/math-olympiads-diplomacy-meet-visiting-math-professor-qendrim-gashi Read More

  • Eugenia Brin, Longtime Supporter of Science and Performing Arts at UMD, Dies

    Eugenia Brin, a Russian immigrant and retired NASA scientist who, with her family of accomplished Terps, became an important benefactor of the University of Maryland, died on Dec. 3, 2024. She was 76 years old. The rest of the article can be read here: https://cmns.umd.edu/news-events/news/eugenia-brin-1948-2024 Read More
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Description

Fundamentals of Matlab, including how to run the software, basic commands, variables, solving equations, simple (pre-) calculus operations, matrices and vectors, functions, basic programming and M-files. Workload includes six assignments, one for each 3-4 days. Expected workload is 2-3 hourse per day of independent study.

Prerequisites

MATH 141

Topics

Introduction

What is MATLAB?
Starting MATLAB
What are all these windows?
Getting started

Basic Commands

Using MATLAB like a calculator
Other basic commands: precision for display, keeping a diary, self-test

Variables

Ordinary variables
Applying symbolic variables

Solving Equations

Symbolic solutions
Numerical solutions

Script M-files

Simple Calculus and Pre-calculus Operations

Plotting curves
Symbolic differentiation
Numerical integration
Solving differential equations

Matrices and Vectors

Basics of matrices and vectors
More with vectors and matrices

Functions

Function basics
More with functions

Programming with MATLAB

Basic programming structures
Function M-files

Publishing M-Files

Limitations of MATLAB

MuPAD

Introduction to MuPAD
Intermediate MuPAD

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