November 18, 2009 - SIAM Startup - Math Collaboration (5-8 pm, 414 CEPSR)
Students, faculty, and researchers are invited to attend the Fall 2009 SIAM Startup-Math Collaborative meeting, Wednesday November 18, 5-8 pm in rm 414 CEPSR. As with past meetups, several members of the Startup community will be presenting mathematical, statistical, and computational problems arising from interesting real-world applications.
Presenters at the Nov 18 meetup will include:
* Gene Kogan and Gold Truong ( http://freshdirect.com )
* Chris Dixon and Matt Gattis ( http://hunch.com )
* Todd Levy ( http://bit.ly )
* Brian Whitman ( http://echonest.com )
Students looking for short-term projects, summer internships, or possible post-graduation job opportunities are encouraged to attend. Pizza will be served --- please do RSVP so we get an accurate count.
Fall 2009 - Mathlab Help Room (Fridays 1-3pm, Location: 252 Engineering Terrace)
October 16, 2009 - SIAM Graduate Student Panel (2-4 pm, 227 Mudd)
A panel discussion between graduate students and seniors on applying to graduate school in quantitative fields such as Industrial and Applied Math, Machine Learning, Quantitative Biology, Finance etc.
September 16, 2009 - SIAM Board Meeting (5-7 pm, 210 Mudd)
Activities discussed included an Applied Mathematics and MATLAB help room, a graduate student panel about applying to grad schools and an applied mathematics journal club. If you are interested in participating or helping organize any of these events please contact us.
July 2009 - SIAM annual meeting, (Denver) including presentation by CUSIAM vice president Adrian Haimovich on ``Fused SVM Classification of Temporal Gene Expression Responses to Endotoxin"
April 8, 2009 - SIAM Tech-Startup / Math Program (5-7 pm, 214 Mudd)
(a.k.a. "math camp for startups")
(a.k.a. "stump the mathematicians")
Columbia's chapter of SIAM invites you to the next Startup Math Program meetup 5-7 pm Wednesday April 8. From 5:00pm - 6:30pm NYC-based startups will present mathematical modeling+mining problems arising from real-world applications, followed by an informal mingling session between all attendees and representatives from startup companies.
Presenters will include:
* Paul Berry, CTO, HuffPost,
* David Black, Oak Investment Partners,
* Jeff Revesz, Founder, Adaptive Semantics,
* Nate Silver, PECOTA, FiveThirtyEight.com.
* Derek Gottfrid, NYTimes.com
Students, researchers, and faculty are invited to attend and discuss possible solutions. Students looking for short-term projects, summer internships, or possible post-graduation job opportunities are also encouraged to attend. Free food and refreshments will be provided.
To attend, RSVP REQUIRED to siam@columbia.edu.
February 2009 - COMAP Mathematical Contest in Modelling
Spring 2009 - Matlab Help Room (Tuesdays 4.10-6pm and Fridays 11-1pm, 252 Engineering Terrace)
December 4, 2008 - SIAM lecture with Dr. Dmitri Tymoczko (Princeton University)
'The Geometry of Music' (4pm, 313 Fayerweather)
'What makes music sound good?' (7pm, 312 Mathematics Building)
Fall 2008 - Matlab Help Room (Thursdays 1-3pm, 407 Mathematics)
February 2007 - SIAM VLP Lecture with Dr. David Ross
February 2007 - COMAP Mathematical Contest in Modelling
January 2007 - Financial Mathematics Job Night, with Susquehanna International Group
October 2006 - SIAM Lecture with Professor Carlos Castillo-Chavez