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News & Activities



Friday May 8, 10:00am-11:30am

CME Field Trip

field trip to *Chicago Mercantile Exchange*(CME,http://www.cme.com/) on Friday, May 8, 2009. We can gather at 9:30am at E1 building, room 208. The shuttle bus leaves at 9:40am. Hopefully, we can come back around 11:30am. Please reply to nben[at]uic[dot]edu for registration.

Wednesday May 6, Room 112, E1 building, 5:30pm

End of semester celebration party

As a traditional departmental event, IIT SIAM chapter will organize the end of semester celebration party. Traditional Chinese food including dim sum will be provided. You are all invited. Also the results of second IIT Math Contest result will be announced during the party. Look forward to see you all on Wednesday.

Wednesday May 6, Room 103, E1 building, 12:45-1:40pm

Second IIT Math Contest

Oranized by Department of Applied Mathematics, and sponsored by IIT SIAM Chapter, the 2nd IIT Math Contest will be open to all IIT undergraduate students. For more information, please click here Weeklyproblem


Wednesday April 15, Room 106, E1 building, 4:40pm

LaTex Tutorial Session: How to make slides in LaTex

Professor Igor Cialenco will present a tutorila on how to make slides in LaTex. He will discuss the basics on how to make slides in Latex using Beamer package. In particular we will talk how to install Beamer, how to make a simple presentation, what are the possibilities and what makes a presentation to be a good one.

Friday, Sep 19, E1 Building, Room 106 10:00 AM

Latex Tutorial Series: Latex for Beginners

This event will cover the following topics:
  • Latex installation and related software for Windows OS
  • Editing and viewing TEX files
  • General ideas of writing a TEX file
  • Tips for writing a mathematical text
  • How to make references and create Bibliography using BibTeX

    Some materials will be handed out during the session.

    A follow up event: how to make slides/presentations in LaTeX using Beamer package will be held latter on during the semester.

    Wednesday, Sep 17, E1 Building, Room 106 4:30 PM

    Math Tea
    Take a break from your hectic schedule and come to meet with your classmates and colleague. Put forth your ideas, participate in upcoming activities, meet with fellow students & faculty or if you are too lazy for any of the above simply relax over some tea & snacks.

    Thursday May 8, North of MTCC 12:30 PM

    Math BBQ
    The SIAM Chapter & Math Club will be holding a barbeque on Thursday, and you're all invited. Food should be start to be available around 12:30, and it will continue until 2pm or so. We'll be just south of the tennis courts (& north of MTCC).

    Thursday March 27, Room 034, Engineering 1 1:50 PM

    Career Workshop( Joint seminar with workshop "Get ready to step onto the street" )
    Speaker: Dr. Yuhua Yu, DRW Trading Group, Chicago

    Dr. Yuhua Yu will give an insight into the various aspects of being in the quantitative research and analysis area. Tea and Snacks will be provided after the event jointly with Math Tea(3:30 PM at Room 129 in E1). You are all welcome to be there on Thursday.

    Wednesday, March 7, Room 129, E1 3:30PM

    Biweekly Event: Math Tea
    Take a break from your hectic schedule and come meet with the new SIAM committee, put forth your ideas, participate in upcoming activities, meet with fellow students & faculty or if you are too lazy for any of the above simply relax over some tea & munchies.

    Wednesday, March 7, Room 129, E1 3:30PM

    Weekly Event: Math Problem Contest

    Undergraduate Students at IIT are able to practice and compete in an intra-campus mathematics competition, and win the competition, by being the first undergraduate student to correctly solve the Weekly Problem. For more details, click here. Weeklyproblem


    Friday, February 15, Room 103, E1 7:30 PM

    Movie Night: N is a number

    Kick off of this semster and induction of SIAM Student Chapter. Snacks and drinks will be provided, please feel free to come and go as you like, bring friends, even bring you own food and snacks. A great opportunity to hang out and talk to new friends in the department.



    Election result of the first Committee members

    On February, 8, we held the first election of IIT SIAM Student Chapter, Ben Niu, Yizhi Zhang, Jiarui Yang, Aparna Poddar were selected as the first committee. They were selected from the current full-time PhD students, master students and MMF students.


    "How to become a member of IIT SIAM Student Chapter?"
    Any IIT student is eligible to be a member of SIAM Student Chapter at IIT. If you want to be a member, contact us by providing the following information:
    - Your IIT email address
    - Your mailing address
    - Your major/department, and whether you are a graduate or undergraduate student

    Benefits of Student Membership
    http://www.siam.org/students/memberships.php


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