Fall 2003 Courses

  Course Hrs Name Time Room Size
Mathematics 131 1 Survey of Mathematics 4 M Stark TR 12:00 111 35
2   4 Soliman TR 12:00 132 35
3   4 Rosson TR 2:00 109 35
4   4 Truesdell TR 6:00 132 35
151 1 Calculus I 4 Kung  MWF 9:20 132 30
1T       W 6:00 134 30
2   4 R Stark MWF 10:40 134 30
2T       W 6:00 109 30
3   4 Carlip MWF 1:20 134 30
3T       M 6:00 134 30
4   4 Qazi MW 2:40 165 30
4T       M 6:00 111 30
5   4 Rosson TR 10:00 165 30
5T       W 6:00 132 30
6   4 Qazi TR 12:00 165 30
6T       W 6:00 111 30
7   4 Rosson TR 6:00 134 30
7T       M 6:00 109 30
152 Calculus II 4 Carlip MWF 9:20 160 25
161 Math for Teachers I 4 Kung TR 12:00 161 20
191 Calculus I Seminar 1 Sterling T 2:00-2:50 164 10
200 Discrete Mathematics 4 Burke MWF 10:40 165 25
255 Vector Calculus 4 Carlip TR 12:00 106 30
281 Foundations of Mathematics 4 R Stark MWF 9:20 134 25
321 Algebra I 4 R Stark TR 10:00 132 20
351 Analysis I 4 Sterling MWF 10:40 160 20
391 Experimental Course
(Putnam Seminar)
(Description Below)
1 Kung F 2:40-3:30 160 20
431 Probability Thy & Applications 4 Qazi TR 2:00 161 10
482 Topics Math Thy
(Combinatorial Game Thy)
(Description Below)
4 Burke MW 2:40 164 10
 Computer
Science
120 Intro to CS 4 Read TR 2:00 106 50
201 Data Structures 4 Read TR 6:00 160 25
351 Programming Languages 4 Read TR 10:00 160 30
360 Natural Language Processing 4 Dorethy TR 12:00 160 20
387 Virtual Reality Seminar
(Description Below)
1 Sterling TBA 158 15
391 Experimental Course
(CS Team Seminar)
(Description Below)
1 Read R 4:40-5:30 164 15
430 Numerical Methods 4 Burke MWF 8:00 160 15


COSC 387: Virtual Reality Seminar (1) The seminar will introduce any
interested CS major to the work of the Virtual Reality Team. Students will meet
once a week and will have 24-7 access to state of the art virtual reality
software. The seminar will be team taught by Kevin Smith and Ryan Keeling. Kevin
and Ryan have spearheaded the work of the “St Mary’s Virtual Reality SMP Team”.
The team has raised over $30,000 in funds, has given many demonstrations and
presentations on and off campus (including to a packed house of over 100 in
106SH at the NSM Colloquium in April 2003), has produced a recruitment video for
admissions to be copied and sent out to thousands of perspective students.
Admissions will soon have the virtual reality tour running interactively on a
large plasma display in the admission’s lobby. Similarly HSMC plans to have an
interactive display, created by the virtual reality team in the lobby of their
new museum and at the new St. John’s site.

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MATH 391: Math Putnam Team Seminar (1) For the fourth year in a row, we will
be fielding a team for the William Lowell Putnam math competition. Held on the
first Saturday of December, the exam consists of 12 difficult problems (10
possible points each), to be done over the course of six hours. Nationally,
awards include over $100,000 in cash and a free graduate education at Harvard.
Locally, the St Mary’s Mathematics Foundation awards $10 per point to our
highest scoring student. This year marks the third year in our rivalry with
Gettysburg College. The winning team, determined by the sum of all students'
scores, will be the keeper of the Putnam Lamp. Prerequisite: Consent of the
instructor.

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MATH 482: Topics in Theoretical Mathematics: Combinatorial Game Theory (4)
Combinatorial Game Theory studies the mathematics of two-player games with no
hidden information such as konane, chess or go. In this class we will study the
main underpinnings of the field such as the Sprague-Grundy Theorem on Impartial
Games, we will continue with more recent work such as thermographs and their
applications to games such as go. Finally we will touch on relations between
Combinatorial Games and other areas of mathematics such as the so-called Surreal
Numbers and Computational Complexity. Prerequisite: MATH 200 or the consent of
the instructor.

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COSC 391: Computer Science Team Seminar (1) For the third year in a row, we
will be fielding a team for two regional computer science competitions. One is
held in the fall semester and one is held in the spring semester. Team members
compete in a preliminary competition to represent our college. Registration,
travel and lodging expenses for three of the team members and one alternate are
provided. Prerequisite: Consent of the instructor.

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