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MapleCast is a biweekly
program that takes you inside Maplesoft and around
the global mathematics scene. From the latest news
to interviews with experts, MapleCast offers a
lively and informative look into the modern world
of mathematics, computing, and of course,
Maple.
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Host Stephanie Rozek explores issues in mathematics and computing through interviews with leading authorities in various fields, and senior Maplesoft product experts. In addition to the interviews, there are plenty of tips and techniques, news, and other useful information to help you enhance your Maple experience. |
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Tales from the Crypt
42 min
Stephanie Rozek chats with Fr. Mike May, from St. Louis University, during the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego. He discusses his work with Maple, and especially how he uses it to teach courses in cryptography. A recording of his lecture “Using Maple worksheets to enable explorations of cryptography with minimal background” follows.
The Three Tensors
34 min
MapleCast interviews some of the most significant members of Maplesoft’s math team: Dr. Juergen Gerhard, Dr. Edgardo Cheb-Terrab and Dr. Allan Wittkopf, who give an inside look at just what is involved in designing and building sophisticated algorithms for advanced mathematics.
Can't Touch This
15 min
Stephanie Rozek is our guest host this episode as Tom Lee is out exploring new frontiers… Paul Goossens joins us again to chat with the folks at Quanser (Paul Gilbert, CEO; Michael Armata, Marketing Manager; and Paul Karam, Design Engineer) about their control solutions for industry, education and research.
By the Numbers
38 min
Tom Lee reaches Rob Meyer, CEO of the Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG), at his office in Oxford UK. Despite flooding there, they manage to have an interesting and upbeat conversation about a variety of things, including the Maple-NAG Connector. Later, Dave Linder, a senior architect at Maplesoft, joins Tom in the studio for a more in-depth discussion of the features and routines used by the Connector. Finally, there are many exciting things going on at Maplesoft these days, including the release of new educational tools and resources, and these are addressed in the news.
Three Amigos
23 min
Tom Lee takes some time to chat with three students working at Maplesoft for the summer. Laura Bradbury and Elyot Grant are both students at the University of Waterloo, respectively studying Computational Mathematics and Computer Science/Mathematics. Zach Daly is a Mathematics major at the University of Guelph. They discuss their opinions and experiences of using Maple in the student paradigm, and offer ideas for other students just starting out with Maple. Eithne Murray joins Tom to discuss Maple’s offerings and resources for students, and as always the latest news is covered, including information on the release of Vista-compatible Maple.
J Squared
25 min
In this episode, Tom Lee has an engaging conversation with Prof. Jack Weiner from the University of Guelph, about the impact of new math teaching tools and the appropriate use of emerging technology in the classroom. Jack is an award winning teacher and the author of "The Math Survival Kit”. Tom also sits down with Jan Bakus, a senior applications engineer at Maplesoft, to talk about BlockImporter and why someone in the simulation and modeling world should get excited about this new product. In addition, Stephanie Rozek, a marketing engineer at Maplesoft, joins us for the latest news. This episode is also fortified with outtakes.
Introducing Maple 11
21 min
This episode focuses on the newly announced Maple 11, the latest version of the Maple system. Host Tom Lee interviews the President and CEO of Maplesoft, Jim Cooper, about the road to Maple 11 and comments on the road ahead for the product and the company. Eithne Murray, our senior product manager also stops by again to tell us about some of her favorite new features. And of course, we have more news and tidbits to share.
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Special Year-End MapleCast
24 min
In this special 2006 year-end episode Tom Lee brings us some highlights of his recent travels to Japan and the Cybernet Maple conferences held during the Fall of 2006. Guests include prominent users in Japan and Tom's long time friend and travel guide. In addition we have some more news and a few mini-interviews with key Maple employees who share some of their experiences over the past year and their Maple predictions for 2007. Topics include the Maple math projects, GUI projects, and marketing and sales. Happy holidays.
The Long Journey
11 min
Tom Lee sits down with Dr. Robert Lopez, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and Maple Fellow, to discuss innovative and effective uses of tools like Maple for improving how mathematics is taught to students. He also shares many of his experiences over the years as he transitioned from Maple pioneer to guru. As well, Louise Krmpotic, Director of the Maple T.A. group at Maplesoft, gives us details about the Maple T.A. product line.
Maximum Acceleration
6 min
Our guest host Paul Goossens interviews Dr. Marvin Weinstein of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in California. They discuss how Maple has allowed him to visualize a dynamic range in some astrophysics data many orders of magnitude greater than could be visualized otherwise. Paul also gets a hold of your regular host Tom Lee at a conference in Philadelphia, and we present some more recent news in mathematics.
Surviving Math Education
13 min
Professor Jack Weiner (University of Guelph) joins us at the Maplesoft headquarters to discuss the Maple e-book version of his popular "Mathematics Survival Kit", his thoughts about what makes a great math teacher, and the role of technology in teaching and learning. Eithne Murray is back with an inside look into the world of Maple T.A, Maplesoft's Web-based system for large-scale, automated testing and assessment of math students. Of course, we also have some more current news and mailbag questions.
Maple Conference 2006 Highlights
18 min
This past week we had an exciting Maple Conference 2006, so in this episode we bring you some highlights from the conference. The highlights include several brief interviews with keynote speakers and poster presenters, as well as a collection of "Hellos from around the world."
Looking Ahead
17 min
Maplesoft's Chief Scientist Dr. Laurent Bernardin joins us to talk about the primary goals of developing Maple 10 and some challenges the team faced. Eithne Murray explains e-books and their relation to MapleConnect; she also divulges information on an interesting new interactive e-book coming soon. And as usual, we have some more helpful news and answers to email questions.
Building a Better Mousetrap
9 min
Tom Lee sits down with Dr. John McPhee, the inventor of Dynaflex Pro, in his office at the University of Waterloo to discuss dynamic models of physical systems, difficulties one might encounter when commercializing a product, and his work on modeling the piano hammer action. Paul Goossens joins us via telephone from the American Control Conference to talk about DynaFlexPro and other engineering products; and we bring you an interesting selection of news and mailbag items.
The Science of the Better
8 min
In this episode Tom talks with Dr. Janos Pinter about how to optimize decisions under resource constraints, the early days of computing, and his thoughts about studying in a communist country. He joins us via telephone from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Eithne Murray stops by again to discuss the fascinating world of programming in Maple; and we have also information about using the new Intel-based Mac port of Maple and a new e-book on understanding and computing derivative securities.
Making the Grade
7 min
In this episode Tom Lee interviews Dr. John Kenelly about the standardized placement testing for incoming college students, about the new partnership between the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) and Maplesoft to produce fully automated and statistically rigorous placement tests; and how computers and software like Maple and Maple T.A. have changed the way we learn and do mathematics. Dr. Kenelly is a professor at Clemson University and is the treasurer of the MAA . Eithne Murray drops by again to talk about help and tutorial resources in Maple; we also have some math news and then provide some answers to questions received in our mailbox.
Building Blocks of Space
8 min
On this program Tom Lee interviews Dr. Dick Gran about designing fail-safe systems for the lunar module and other components of the Apollo space program ; how our use of math has changed with the newest generation computers and software; and his first thoughts about using Maplesoft's new product BlockBuilder. During his rich career Dr. Gran has led many scientific teams for the U.S. aerospace industry and was the Director of Advanced Concepts at Northrop-Grumman. Maplesoft product director Paul Goossens gives a detailed look at Blockbuilder for Simulink(R), Maplesoft's new product for advanced simulation model generation ; and we dish out some of the latest math news as well as answer some more email questions.
In the Beginning
18 min
In this episode Tom Lee talks with one of the co-inventors of the Maple system, Dr. Keith Geddes, about some of the design challenges and computational limitations that he and others faced during the early development of Maple nearly 25 years ago; Eithne Murray discusses some great new features in Maple 10 including palettes, the 2-D editor, context menus, and tables; in addition we have the regular science and math news segment, and we'll wade through our mailbox and read some questions or comments from listeners.
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