From: nb@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Nancy Blachman)
Subject: 2-Day Mathematica Workshops in Berkeley, Boston, and New York
Keywords: Mathematica, training, workshop
Organization: Computer Science Department,  Stanford University.
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 20:10:14 GMT

I thought you might be interested to know about these workshops.

Nancy

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Workshop Topics

Day 1:  Introduction to Mathematica
Day 2:  Morning: Introduction to Programming in Mathematica
Day 2:  Afternoon: Additional Programming Topics

Location and Dates
          	
Berkeley           January 28-29, 1993
Boston             February 17-18, 1993
New York           March 11-12, 1993
Berkeley/Oakland   March 22-23, 1993

Detailed information on location will be sent to participants upon
registration. Additional sites for the remainder of 1993 include 
Denver, Atlanta, Dallas, Madison, Austin, and Washington, D.C.

Course Descriptions

Introduction to Mathematica

This session provides a nuts-and-bolts approach that will make it easier to 
learn and use Mathematica, bringing together ideas and techniques that are 
scattered throughout the literature. You will learn how to find commands that 
you need, understand what they do, and use them effectively.  You will learn 
to use Mathematica to manipulate expressions, find roots, solve differential 
equations, and visualize functions and data.  

Introduction to Programming in Mathematica and Additional Programming Topics

This session will help you get started programming in Mathematica. We start by 
showing you how to write functions.  You will learn about different types of 
assignment statements as well as patterns you can use to specify arguments to 
functions. Because the pattern matching capabilities in Mathematica are
powerful and can often simplify programs, we show examples of functions 
expressions that pattern-matching.  We then cover importing, exporting, 
and formatting data and expressions and conclude by describing the mechanisms
used in Mathematica packages and explaining how to use them effectively.  
After this course you should be able to read and write data from ASCII 
files and write your own Mathematica package.

About the Instructor

Nancy Blachman is founder and president of Variable Symbols, a company that 
specializes in helping people  mathematical software more effectively.  She 
is an instructor at Stanford University, where she teaching a class in problem 
solving with Mathematica.  Ms. Blachman has been an invited speaker at the 
last three Mathematica conferences.  She holds degrees in mathematics, 
operations research and computer science from the University of Birmingham 
(U.K.), the University of California at Berkeley, and Stanford University.

Training Materials

Each participant will receive a copy of Nancy Blachman's book "Mathematica: 
A Practical Approach" (Prentice-Hall, 1992), and the "Mathematica Quick 
Reference, Version 2" (Addison-Wesley and Variable Symbols, 1992).

Cost

Cost of attending either 1-day session in $250.
Cost of attending the entire 2-day Workshop is $400.

Save 10% if you register 30 days in advance.

Registration

For information on this workshop, call Variable Symbols, or mail or fax the
following information form.  

Variable Symbols, Inc. * 2161 Shattuck Ave, Suite 202 * Berkeley, CA 94704-1313
Telephone 510-843-8701                                         Fax 510-843-8702
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INFORMATION FORM

[ ] Please send me information on Variable Symbols' Mathematica workshops.

I would like to attend in the following location: 
        [ ] Berkeley           January 28-29, 1993
        [ ] Boston             February 17-18, 1993
        [ ] New York           March 11-12, 1993
        [ ] Berkeley/Oakland   March 22-23, 1993
	
I would like to attend the following workshops:
        [ ] Introduction to Mathematica
        [ ] Introduction to Programming and Additional 
            Programming Topics
        [ ] I am unable to attend but please let me know about other
            workshops.  I would be interested in workshops in the 
            following cities:_______________________________________
        [ ] Please add my name to your mailing list.


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