Computational Mathematics Laboratory with Graphics Facility

该项目将支持一个计算机实验室的扩展，该实验室将用于提供一个环境，使学生能够深入了解数学问题的本质，它们所代表的物理现象以及用于数值研究它们的程序。该项目由仪器和实验室改进计划（ILI）资助，该计划的目标是通过支持开发新的或改进的仪器为基础的本科实验室和/或科学、数学或工程领域课程的项目来提高本科课程的质量。特别地，这个项目将包括一个数值方法和微分方程的协调程序，将大量使用计算实验和图形。该设施将用于研究动力系统，偏微分方程，线性和非线性系统；本课程将向学生介绍最近的非线性现象，包括混沌和奇怪的吸引子，这些现象是由天气、心脏和阻尼驱动摆等系统模型引起的。

This project will support the expansion of a computer laboratory which will be used to provide a setting in which students will gain insight into the nature of mathematical problems, the physical phenomena they represent, and the procedures used to study them numerically. It is being funded under the Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement (ILI) Program, which has the goal of improving the quality of the undergraduate curriculum by supporting projects to develop new or improved instrument-based undergraduate laboratory and/or field courses in science, mathematics, or engineering. In particular, this project will consist of a coordinated program in numerical methods and differential equations which will make significant use of computational experimentation and graphics. The facility will be used to study dynamical systems, partial differential equations, and linear and nonlinear systems; the students will be introduced to nonlinear phenomena of recent interest, including chaos and strange attractors, arising from models of systems such as the weather, the heart, and the damped, driven pendulum.