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What Is ChatGPT Doing ... and Why Does It Work?
(Study Group Sessions)

What Is ChatGPT Doing ... and Why Does It Work?
(Study Group Sessions)
Archived Event | FREE

Find out what's going on inside ChatGPT and explore why it can perform so well at producing meaningful text. This Study Group is based on a best-selling book by Stephen Wolfram and provides an accessible and engaging explanation for the success of ChatGPT.

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Daily Study Group: Exploring Creative Data Analytics
Study Group | FREE

Certification Levels: Completion

The Study Group explores case studies applying modern computation to business analytics. Participants will see examples of how to work with text, image, video and web data in Wolfram Language. Lessons used in this Study Group are taken from the upcoming Wolfram U interactive course Exploring Creative Data Analytics, based on the book written by Fei Du, Kelvin Mischo and Davis Mo.

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Daily Study Group: Introduction to Complex Analysis
Study Group | FREE

Certification Levels: CompletionLevel 1

This Daily Study Group introduces you to the properties and applications of complex numbers and functions with the help of visualization and computation tools in Wolfram Language. The first three sessions cover the complex plane, complex numbers and analytic functions. Later sessions focus on complex integration, the residue theorem and applications. The lessons used in this Study Group are taken from the upcoming Wolfram U course Introduction to Complex Analysis.

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Daily Study Group: Introduction to Laplace Transforms
Study Group | FREE

Certification Levels: CompletionLevel 1

This Daily Study Group introduces you to the Laplace transform, its properties and applications, making use of cutting-edge Wolfram Language functions that make Laplace transforms automatically and accurately computable. Early lessons explain the Laplace transform and its inverse, essential properties, methods for evaluation and numerical algorithms. Later lessons are dedicated to applications of the Laplace transform, as it is one of the main tools available for solving differential equations.

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Daily Study Group: What Is ChatGPT Doing ... and Why Does It Work?
Study Group | FREE

Certification Levels: Completion

Find out what's going on inside ChatGPT and explore why it can perform so well at producing meaningful text. This Study Group is based on a best-selling book by Stephen Wolfram and provides an accessible and engaging explanation for the success of ChatGPT.

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Daily Study Groups
Special Event | FREE

Certification Levels: CompletionLevel 1

Wolfram Daily Study Groups are fun, directed, incremental learning resources for building computational competence. Study Groups offer academic and professional development opportunities for anyone interested in expanding their skillset. A Wolfram instructor guides each session by sharing short lessons, polling the group to review key concepts, introducing practice problems and answering questions. Certificates of program completion are available to engaged participants, with additional opportunities for Level 1 proficiency certifications offered for select topics and areas of study.

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Biodiversity Explorations with Machine Learning
(Study Group Sessions)

Biodiversity Explorations with Machine Learning
(Study Group Sessions)
Archived Event | FREE

Learn to apply machine learning techniques and Wolfram Language functions to biodiversity data. These Study Group sessions begin by introducing you to biodiversity data access functions available with the entity framework built into the Wolfram Language and in the Wolfram Function Repository. Later sessions cover examples of classification, social media text analysis, audio processing of bird sounds and deploying a trained neural network image classifier to your mobile phone. Each session includes lessons, polls to review key concepts and practice problems.

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EdTech for the Computational Classroom (Study Group Sessions)

EdTech for the Computational Classroom (Study Group Sessions)
Archived Event | FREE

This Daily Study Group explores the benefits of bringing computational learning to all course subjects. Lessons start with a broad overview to provide a sense of what's possible with Wolfram technology, from interactive graphs and geographic plots to financial and historical data analysis. Later lessons share examples of student computational notebooks exploring subjects like math, physics and computer science with a final lesson demonstrating Wolfram's new question and assessment framework.

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Exploring Blockchain Functionality
(Study Group Sessions)

Exploring Blockchain Functionality
(Study Group Sessions)
Archived Event | FREE

Join associates from Wolfram Blockchain Labs to learn more about the technology, concepts and functionality of blockchains. The series begins with a conceptual introduction, reviewing terminology and definitions and briefly touching on topics such as cryptography, the internet stack, Bitcoin, NFTs and computation. Later sessions focus on decentralized blockchain governance, cross-chain bridges in the Cardano ecosystem, defining and expanding the "oracle problem," the latest economic research on mutual credit currency and finally, discussion of recent news and a Study Group recap.

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Field Theory of Games (Study Group Sessions)

Field Theory of Games (Study Group Sessions)
Archived Event | FREE

Learn a computational approach to economics and business using the field theory of games, a dynamic model extension of game theory. See how game theory can be extended with ideas from geometry, physics and engineering. Discussions will include applied examples from economics to give students insight into the ways a systems engineering approach can be used to understand how decisions are made. No prior knowledge of game theory or Wolfram Language is assumed, so a brief introduction to both topics will be provided.

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Getting Started with Mathematica and Wolfram Language
(Study Group Sessions)

Getting Started with Mathematica and Wolfram Language
(Study Group Sessions)
Archived Event | FREE

Learn to use Mathematica and the programming language at its core—Wolfram Language. Start with basic explorations to get familiar with the syntax and then learn to use Wolfram GPT as a guide for writing snippets of code. Find your way through the documentation on 6000+ built-in functions and learn to use them for a range of programming tasks. You will learn to write your own functions, create visualizations, add interactivity and utilize the notebook interface to both create and present your analysis. No prior programming knowledge is required, and even seasoned users will pick up a useful trick or two.

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Guiding Principles for Systems Modeling and Simulation
(Study Group Sessions)

Guiding Principles for Systems Modeling and Simulation
(Study Group Sessions)
Archived Event | FREE

Learn modeling principles applicable to dynamic systems across diverse domains from Wolfram experts. This study group uses Wolfram System Modeler to create models of real-world systems and explore modeling fundamentals. Examples that range from simulating the spread of infectious diseases to predicting the cash flow dynamics of a subscription-based business and modeling the intricate behavior of drones are covered. The first two sessions provide an introduction to modeling with System Modeler and analyzing models with Wolfram Language. Each following session is devoted to learning about a different modeling principle.

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Introduction to Machine Learning (Study Group Sessions)

Introduction to Machine Learning (Study Group Sessions)
Archived Event | FREE

Join our Daily Study Group to review the first six chapters of Etienne Bernard's book, Introduction to Machine Learning. A Wolfram U instructor guides each session by summarizing the chapter, walking through code examples, polling the group to review key concepts, working on selected exercises and answering questions. Participants are encouraged to read the book chapters before coming to each session.

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Introduction to the Wolfram Quantum Computation Framework
(Study Group Sessions)

Introduction to the Wolfram Quantum Computation Framework
(Study Group Sessions)
Archived Event | FREE

Follow these Daily Study Group sessions for an introduction to the Wolfram Quantum Computation Framework and how to use it in quantum computing. The foundation of the framework is a high-level symbolic expression representation of gates, unitaries, measurements, CPTP channels and so on. The framework is intuitive and flexible enough to model higher-order processes, such as quantum switches, using the several named states and operators built into the framework. Topics include basic concepts of quantum computation, including quantum states, transformations, algorithms, operators, gates, circuits and how to use Wolfram Language to run them on quantum hardware. You will learn how to simulate a quantum computer that operates based on the laws of quantum mechanics with Wolfram Language.

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LLM Agents for Modeling Group Dynamics

LLM Agents for Modeling Group Dynamics
Archived Event | FREE

In this colloquium, you will see agent-based simulations applied to the study of many kinds of groups, from classrooms to international relations. You will also see some general frameworks for creating LLM-based agents. Works presented in this colloquium are conducted in a variety of programming languages, any of which are compatible with Wolfram Notebooks.

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Mathematica and Wolfram Language for
Mathematics Research and Study (Study Group Sessions)

Mathematica and Wolfram Language for
Mathematics Research and Study (Study Group Sessions)
Archived Event | FREE

This Daily Study Group is designed especially for mathematics graduate students and research professionals but covers topics of interest to an even wider audience. This Study Group will help you make the most of the built-in functionality available in Wolfram Language for advanced studies and research in mathematics—from special functions and visualization to solving differential equations, as well as number theory, combinatorics, differential geometry and more. Participants are encouraged to prepare for this Study Group by attending a Hands-on Start to Mathematica training tutorial.

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Notebook-based Workflows for Data Explorations
(Study Group Sessions)

Notebook-based Workflows for Data Explorations
(Study Group Sessions)
Archived Event | FREE

Discover the different workflows included with Wolfram's extensive documentation system. Learn about the detailed, step-by-step recipes for the computational tasks needed to build more complex technical projects. These videos start with a brief introduction to Wolfram Notebooks and then quickly move to more practical tasks like importing data, creating visualizations and doing basic analysis. You will be instructed in utilizing the user-friendly notebook environment and the elegance of the Wolfram Language to quickly create interactive interfaces to aid your data explorations and visualizations.

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Programming Tutorials (Study Group Sessions)

Programming Tutorials (Study Group Sessions)
Archived Event | FREE

Follow this Study Group to go beyond the basics of the Wolfram Language and learn more about practical programming. The earlier sessions introduce the concept of using functional programming to work with data and build simple user interfaces, clearing the way for the later sessions to dive deeper into the details of scoping, more complex function building and utilizing the Wolfram Knowledgebase. The final sessions round out this Study Group by reviewing package development and covering Wolfram Workbench, our Eclipse-based IDE for the Wolfram Language.

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Solving ODEs and PDEs with Wolfram Language (Study Group Sessions)

Solving ODEs and PDEs with Wolfram Language (Study Group Sessions)
Archived Event | FREE

This Daily Study Group covers techniques for solving ordinary differential equations (ODEs) and partial differential equations (PDEs) using Wolfram Language. It introduces the built-in function DSolve for finding symbolic solutions to differential equations and the built-in function NDSolve, a general numerical differential equation solver. Topics covered include the numerical method of lines, the finite element method (FEM), the use and construction of meshes, boundary value problems and eigenvalue problems.

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System Modeling (Study Group Sessions)

System Modeling (Study Group Sessions)
Archived Event | FREE

Follow this Study Group to learn how to use Wolfram System Modeler to make complex, hierarchical simulations of all kinds of systems. The first several sessions cover examples ranging from gyroscopes and joysticks in physics to epidemic modeling in biology, to chromatographic columns in chemistry. After covering some fundamental topics with the use of the examples, this Study Group goes on to explain how to create and analyze new models, connect to real-world applications and analyze results with the Wolfram Language and the basics of the Modelica language.

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Topics in Artisanal Calculus (Study Group Sessions)

Topics in Artisanal Calculus (Study Group Sessions)
Archived Event | FREE

Explore lesser-known but incredibly useful topics in calculus. In this Daily Study Group on "artisanal" topics in calculus, learn about umbral calculus, Bell polynomials, the Euler–Maclaurin formula and fractional calculus. See how you can apply methods in calculus to the study of dynamical systems, minimal surfaces and even number theory.

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Wolfram GPT (Study Group Sessions)

Wolfram GPT (Study Group Sessions)
Archived Event | FREE

Wolfram gives ChatGPT computational superpowers by allowing it to call on Wolfram|Alpha—and Wolfram Language as well—for powerful computation, curated knowledge, real-time data, visualization and even writing code. Join this Daily Study Group and learn how you can inject computation into your ChatGPT conversations, solve math problems reliably, access accurate data and develop human+AI workflows.

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Wolfram Language Basics

Wolfram Language Basics
Video Course | FREE

Certification Levels: Level 1

Learn the most important basics of Wolfram Language—no prior experience necessary. This course was created from the online sessions at a popular Daily Study Group series. The video lessons start by introducing you to computational notebooks and covering the ideas of basic functional programming and visualization. Following videos dive deeper, covering symbolics, numerics and more advanced programming, enabling you to start working with your own data. The remaining videos greatly expand the scope of the material while remaining accessible to beginners, allowing anyone to start working with machine learning, media files, cloud publishing and deployment. By the time you are done, you will feel right at home in the notebook environment and be ready to start working with any kind of data or calculation you can imagine. This video course provides excellent preparation for the Wolfram Language Level 1 certification.

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Wolfram Language Certification Prep (Study Group Sessions)

Wolfram Language Certification Prep (Study Group Sessions)
Archived Event | FREE

Refresh and enhance your Wolfram Language knowledge and prepare for the Level 1 certification exam. In these sessions, we review core areas of the language, including programming, graphics and visualization, machine learning and cloud functionality. In the final session, we look at exam practice questions.

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Course Type

  • Interactive Courses
  • Video Lessons
  • Video Courses
  • Instructor-led Courses
  • Archived and Special Events

Interactive Courses

Also known as MOOCs (massive open online courses), these courses are hosted on the Wolfram Cloud and allow you to interactively explore concepts using Wolfram Language functionality.

  • Self-paced with progress tracking

  • Include video lessons, exercises and problems, quizzes, exams and a scratch notebook

  • Sharable completion certificates available for all courses

  • Wolfram Level 1 proficiency certifications available for select courses

Video Lessons

Short recorded lessons that provide limited instruction on a computational topic or for using Wolfram tech.

  • Quick-start videos

  • Lessons from content experts

  • A wide variety of beginner-level lessons

  • Free to watch

Video Courses

Video series that build on preceding lessons to provide comprehensive instruction.

  • Each video course features a playlist of sequential lessons

  • Recorded by Wolfram certified instructors

  • Comprehensive coverage of a particular topic

  • Free to watch

Instructor-led Courses

Scheduled as online and in-person classes, these courses provide comprehensive instruction guided by a live instructor.

  • Registration required to reserve your seat

  • Taught by Wolfram certified instructors

  • Opportunity to pose live questions to experts in the room

  • Course completion certificates available

Archived and Special Events

Presentations by Wolfram developers, content experts and instructors.

  • Webinars on special topics and new release functionality

  • Livecoding sessions

  • Wolfram Daily Study Groups

  • Free to watch