Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES SEMINAR

Department: Statistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 3

Description: This course prepares a student for research in the mathematical sciences on a specific topic. Each section is dedicated to a different topic. Current topics include bioinformatics, biomathematics, computational finance, simulation driven optimization, and data simulation. The topics change each semester. Fall 2014, Section 002: This seminar course will focus on developing computational, statistical and machine learning sills required to analyze and make predictions for Big-Data. Assignments will include projects tackling real Big-Data problems. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: STAT 499. Repeatable for Credit.