Thursday 31 March 2011
Wednesday 30 March 2011
A Month of Math Software – March 2011
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via Walking Randomly by Mike Croucher on 29/03/11
Welcome to the March 2011 edition of A Month of Math Software (MMS) where I take you on a brief tour of new things in the world of mathematical software. If you like what you see then you may also be interested in last month's edition and possibly January's too. If I've missed anything then contact me and let me know.
Commercial releases
A minor update to Mathematica has been released. Version 8.0.1 contains bug fixes and enhancements and a short list of these is available at http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/quick-revision-history.html
Another month, another Magma release. See what's new in 2.17-6 here.
Open source releases
Version 5.3.1 of Scilab, a superb free MATLAB-like environment, has been released. Check out http://www.scilab.org/en/products/scilab/download/5.3.1/whatsnew to see what's new.
A new minor release (version 4.4.3) of GNUPLOT, a popular open-source plotting package, is now available. The changelog is available at http://www.gnuplot.info/announce.4.4.3
SAGE, the open-source mathematics package based on Python, has seen a new minor release. Version 4.6.2 was released just after I published February's edition of MMS so I've included it here. For a list of all things new see this thread.
Version 1.10.14 of Gnumeric, a free alternative to Excel, has been released. Lots of new goodness listed at http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/announcements/1.10/gnumeric-1.10.14.shtml
Version 12 of EuMaT (Euler Math Toolbox) has been released but I can't find a changelog. If you've never used this software before then it's a bit MATLAB-like and uses Maxima for symbolic stuff.
GP-GPU (General Purpose Graphics Processing Units) related news, tutorials and releases
NVIDIA have released version 4.0 of their CUDA toolkit.
Jacket, arguably the most advanced GPU-accelerated toolbox for MATLAB currently available, has been updated to version 1.7 Check out the release notes to see what's been added.
PGI insider have an article called Using GPU-enabled Math Libraries with PGI Fortran which covers GPU accelerated libraries such as CUBLAS, CULA and MAGMA.
Odds and ends
Version 4.0 of the free MATLAB toolbox, Chebfun, has been released. Chebfun is a collection of algorithms, and a software system in object-oriented MATLAB, which extends familiar powerful methods of numerical computation involving numbers to continuous or piecewise-continuous functions. Chebfun is a very interesting project as can be seen from the wide array of examples.
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Monday 21 March 2011
Fwd: sceptre seminar and resources
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From: Norman Jackson <Norman.Jackson@surrey.ac.uk>
Date: 19 March 2011 10:23
Subject: sceptre seminar and resources
To: SEDA@jiscmail.ac.uk
From: Norman Jackson <Norman.Jackson@surrey.ac.uk>
Date: 19 March 2011 10:23
Subject: sceptre seminar and resources
To: SEDA@jiscmail.ac.uk
sceptre news 20/03/11
The SCEPTrE Project comes to an end on March 31st and we would like to thank everyone who has supported our work and made use of our resources over the last five years. While SCEPTrE ceases to exist as an organisation the work on learning to be professional, lifewide learning and creativity in higher education will continue through the not for profit work of Chalk Mountain Education and Media Services http://www.chalkmountain.eu. We will continue working with anyone who shares our vision for a more complete education.
Professor Norman Jackson
Seminars
Thursday March 24th 11.00-12.15
"On the edge of reality: Some challenges in using simulation to supplement students' lived experiences.'
Ed Errington, University of North Queensland
Video conference streamed live from this webpage
The presentation focuses on the pros, cons and challenges facing educators using simulated media to supplement life experience of health/medical students. It considers the place of psychological realism; situated contexts; perceptions of teaching & teaching delivery; and, learning and alternative curricula in enriching lived experience. Each of these factors can individually, or in combination, aid or hinder the relative efficacy of simulation as a potentially viable supplement for real experience. The presenter offers ways that these challenges might be met and simulated learning optimised.
See also - As close as it gets: Developing professional identity through the potential of scenario-based learning
Ed Errington
Resources
Guide to Personal Professionalism
Sarah Campbell
A simple explanation for students of what students who have completed a year long work placement believe being professional involves.
Assessing the Complexity of Professional Achievement
Mantz Yorke
Learning to be Professional through a Higher Education e book
Filmed seminar - Video available by March 25th
The Challenge of Assessing Students' Professional Development & Achievement
Mantz Yorke
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