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General Information
1. Find a journal article.
I reserved a book in the Science and Engineering Library called Mathematical Modelling: Classroom Notes in Applied Mathematics by Murry Klamkin. Also, you may look at some articles in Applied Mathematical Modelling. There are enough articles in the reserved book so that each student solely work on a particular paper. If there are several students interested in a specific article, it will be handled as a first-come-first-serve-basis.

2. Prepare a 10-minute presentation.
In your talk, concentrate on these three aspects: the problem, model equations, mathematical tools/techniques.
The problem: Describe the problem being solved. Include pictures/diagrams if possible. Mention the motivation or say why this is interesting or important.
Model equations: These equations could be differential equations, optimization models, algebraic equations, etc. Describe all the parameters. Mention all the assumptions (factors ignored, e.g. friction in a simple spring-mass model) for the governing equations. Comment on how the model is constructed. For example, was there any principle or laws (e.g. Newton's law) used? Be able to relate the equations to the problem.
Mathematical tools/techniques: This part deals with the analysis of the solution to the modeling equations and the techniques used to obtain the solution. Describe the tools the authors used to solve the equations (e.g. separation of variables) or/and to analyze (e.g. linearization) the behavior of the model. If the equations are solved numerically, then discuss these numerical techniques as well. Finally, relate the solutions (approximations) back to the original problem. Describe how these solutions predict (or not) the correct behavior of the system.

Please prepare your talk in transparencies (laptop talks are welcomed as well). Your audience is your classmates and me; i.e. you should prepare your talk so that your classmates should understand it. At the end of each presentation, two minutes will be alotted for questions from the audience.

Important Dates
March 3rd: submit the paper reference (It must be handed during class or emailed by 5pm. Otherwise, it will be considered late and therefore, you will have to take the no-project option grading scheme.)
March 10th: submit presentation outline
March 16th, 17th: days of presentation


Schedule of Presentations
Time Speaker/Topic
Thursday, March 16,
8:45-8:55 		Anita Grover
A Model for Drug Concentration
Thursday, March 16,
9:00-9:10 		Clark Kibler
Missile battery placement for air defense: A dynamic programming approach
(D. Ghose, U. R. Prasad,K. Guruprasad)
Thursday, March 16,
9:15-9:25 		James Zavala
Expected Number of Stops for an Elevator
(D.J. Newman)
Thursday, March 16,
9:30-9:40 		Linh Cao
Modeling Flow and Pollutant Removal of Wet Detention Pond Treating Stormwater Runoff
(G-T. Wang, S. Chen, M. Barber, and D. Yonge)
Thursday, March 16,
9:45-9:55 		Michael Khoi Nguyen
On gas modelling effects in the modelling laser cutting processes
(M.S. Gross)
Friday, March 17,
9:00-9:10 		Terri Tsang
Species extinction problem: genetic vs ecological factors
(R.K. Upadhyaya, V. Raib and S. R. K. Iyengar)
Friday, March 17,
9:15-9:25 		Michelle Hallikainen
A Heat Transfer Problem
(J.E. Wilkens, Jr. and G.W. Veltkamp)
Friday, March 17,
9:30-9:40 		Daniel Ji
Dynamical behavior of an epidemic model with a nonlinear incidence rate
(S. Ruan and W. Wang)
Friday, March 17,
9:45-9:55 		Annie Banks
Tidal level forecasting using functional and sequential learning neural networks