Mathematics
College of Science & Health
Student Doing Calculations on a Whiteboard

Short Courses

Saturday, 11:30-12:30

Faculty Workshop

CUPM 2015: Modernizing curricula in the mathematical sciences, Paul Zorn, St. Olaf College, SB 263

Abstract:   CUPM, the MAA's Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics, has been compiling and updating curriculum recommendations in mathematics since the 1950s.   New versions have appeared about once each decade.     After reviewing some CUPM history (What was new in mathematics and teaching in 1955?   In 1968?)  I'll turn to the upcoming 2015 version, now in preparation.    We'll discuss (and together critique) recommendations for the structure and content of mathematics majors that reflect new development in mathematical content, cognitive goals, and design and assessment of courses and programs.  

Student Workshop

Math and Artificial Intelligence: The Legacy of McCarthy, Minsky, Shannon and Turing, Bob Palais ,UVU, LA 006

Abstract:   Many of the ideas that have now been realized in modern artificial intelligence software - speech and face recognition, chess playing, machine learning, intelligent search, etc., can be traced back to a conference in 1956 that was organized by  three mathematicians and an electrical engineer. In the talk we will discuss some of the mathematical contributions to this field, including the original AI language, LISP and its connection with an algebraic structure, rooted trees; and the Perceptron, a basic artificial neural network model.

In the workshop, we will train model neurons to recognize alphanumeric characters. Each model neuron determines on which side of a plane an input stimulus lies. By adjusting the positions of the planes by a simple trial and error correction learning algorithm, we can teach the neurons to recognize different classes of stimuli by the region of space the neuron planes determine.

 

 

 
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