Our seminar series offers brief presentations by senior Wolfram Research
technical staff on topics of interest to Mathematica newcomers
as well as to experienced users. These seminars provide you with an
easy way to learn about what's new in Mathematica and find out
about emerging technologies. They give you a special opportunity to learn
from Mathematica experts, and best of all, they're free!
Online seminars run 30-60 minutes and include live Q&A with Wolfram
Research technical staff. Online seminar dates and times are listed on the Wolfram Education Group
seminar calendar. On Demand seminar recordings are now available, so you can watch anytime.
See online seminar FAQs to learn more.
S01: An Overview of Mathematica for Education »
Using Mathematica in the classroom
This seminar provides an overview of the Mathematica functionality that makes it easy for educators to integrate the software into precollege, community college, and higher education classrooms. Whether you have used Mathematica for years or have no technical computing experience, you'll see many examples of Mathematica's use for education that can be implemented immediately. Resources and presentation materials are made available to participants.
S10: A Brief Overview of Mathematica »
Ground-level introduction
This seminar provides an introduction to the major technologies in Mathematica and their applications across disciplines. Topics covered include numeric and symbolic computations, programming, data and image processing, visualization, creating and deploying technical documents, dynamic interactivity, and connection technologies. Resources and presentation materials are made available to participants, including sample "jump-start" computational tasks with solutions provided.
S11: What's New in Mathematica 7 »
Latest features demonstrated
This seminar gives a brief overview of the new features in Mathematica 7, including image processing, parallel computing, discrete calculus, Boolean computation, statistical model analysis, information and data visualization, new computable data collections, and much more. Resources and presentation materials are made available to participants.
S12: Topics in First Year Calculus »
Use Mathematica to strengthen key concepts
This seminar provides a look at topics found in introductory calculus courses and illustrates Mathematica's application to those concepts. In addition to demonstrating Mathematica's built-in calculus functions, this example-driven seminar provides a look at how to expand Mathematica's functionality by creating custom functions to further explore specific topics in the classroom such as computation of Riemann sums, optimizing area, and computing trajectories. Tools and resources for exploring these topics will be made available to attendees for immediate use within the calculus classroom.
S15: Senior Developer Q&A »
Discussions with senior Mathematica developers
Participate in a Q&A session with a senior Mathematica developer. Developers (one per session; see schedule) share their expertise about the system's structure and design, and its broad application in a variety of professional and academic fields. Discuss exciting new innovations and technologies with the pros.
S16: A Tour through Calculus »
Insights from a Mathematica senior developer
This seminar offers an overview of calculus in Mathematica along with applications such as solitary waves, minimal surfaces, and the Painlevé differential equations. Mathematica's internal problem-solving methods are also compared with conventional computation by hand. Significant historical and practical calculus examples are presented and solved, using the symbolic, graphical, and interactive features available in Mathematica.
S17: Applied Parallel Computation with Mathematica »
Learn real-world solutions
This seminar provides a brief overview of Mathematica's parallel capabilities applied to several disciplines. The presentation covers examples in finance, engineering, biology, and mathematics. Code examples showing the direct application of Mathematica's parallel commands will be featured.
S18: Import and Export Data Formats in Mathematica »
Seamlessly import hundreds of formats
This seminar presents an introduction to the Import and Export functions in Mathematica, including Mathematica 7 formats for geospatial, chemical, and biomolecular data. With the help of many examples, it illustrates how to work with data formats from a variety of application areas, such as computational biology, geospatial information systems, image processing, multimedia, audio, databases, medical imaging, chemical informatics, astronomy, 3D geometry, vector graphics, and scientific data.
S19: Discrete Calculus with Mathematica »
First-ever comprehensive system for discrete symbolic calculus
This seminar offers an overview of discrete calculus in Mathematica
along with applications such as random number generation, chaotic
dynamical systems, and the theory of algorithms. Examples illustrating
the capabilities for sequence analysis, symbolic summation, and
convergence testing of infinite series in Mathematica 7 are given. Insight into the internal implementation and user-extensibility of these features is also provided.
S20: Statistics and Data Analysis with Mathematica »
Explore the new, structured framework for model analysis
This seminar provides a brief overview of statistics and data analysis in Mathematica. Topics covered include descriptive measures and visualization; properties of distributions; random number generation for simulation; linear, nonlinear, and generalized linear models; and optimization. Resources and presentation materials are made available to participants.
S21: Working with Data Collections »
Work with built-in computable data sources
This seminar introduces computable data collections and shows how to work with them in Mathematica. Examples are drawn from mathematics, physics, chemistry, economics and finance, geopolitics, linguistics, and more.
S22: Overview of webMathematica »
Updated for webMathematica 3
This seminar provides an introduction to webMathematica. Topics covered include an overview of webMathematica technology, a tour of example sites highlighting key and new features, and webMathematica development tools. Presentation and example materials are made available to participants.
S23: Presentations with Mathematica »
Tips for creating great presentations and technical documents
This seminar provides useful tips and tools for creating and working with Mathematica notebooks that are designed for presenting to others. Examples show you how to incorporate traditional mathematical notation, auto-numbered objects, hyperlinks and buttons, slide shows, and more to create powerful presentations.
S24: Working with Imported Data in Mathematica »
Tips for working with data more efficiently in Mathematica
Mathematica provides a variety of tools for importing and manipulating data. This seminar walks through several concrete applied examples of working with imported data in some widely used formats, such as XLS, HDF, text, DXF, and FASTA.
S25: Image Processing with Mathematica »
A new generation of industrial-strength image processing
This seminar provides an overview of the fully integrated image processing features in Mathematica 7. A broad range of topics are covered, including image creation, manipulation, color conversions, arithmetic, linear/nonlinear operations, and morphology. All topics are accompanied by fun, task-oriented, interactive examples.
S27: Got Manipulate? »
Introduction to creating dynamic interfaces in Mathematica
Want to create a dynamic interface, but aren't a C++, Java, or .NET/Link programmer? We've got you covered. In one line of code and faster than you can move a slider from left to right, you'll be creating and manipulating graphics, formulas, and even notebooks themselves.
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