MATHwire

April 2008

Announcements

Applications are now being accepted for the first Advanced Mathematica Summer School, to be held July 6-18, 2008, in Champaign, Illinois. This intensive two-week program will allow attendees with significant Mathematica projects to work directly with senior Wolfram Research developers to advance their own work. Space is limited, so apply now...
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New updates now available: Mathematica 6.0.2, gridMathematica 2.2.1, and Mathematica Personal Grid Edition 6.0.2. All feature the new Virtual Book documentation system and Function Navigator, as well as a new coordinate-picking tool and a variety of performance and functionality improvements. Registered users with Premier Service can receive free updates...
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Mathematica Player Pro introduces a major new application-delivery system for Mathematica. Create your interactive solutions in Mathematica--featuring interactivity, real-time data, 2D/3D visualizations, and more--and immediately deploy them as standalone applications...
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Mathematica 6 users can upload notebooks for conversion to Player-compatible .nbp files using the free Publish for Player web service...
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Premier Service now includes a valuable new benefit: a free Mathematica Player Pro Developer Kit consisting of three free Player Pro licenses for you to give to whomever you want. Request your Developer Kit now...
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Ever wonder what other people are doing with Mathematica? New video profiles are now available highlighting how Mathematica has given users the technical edge in their projects. Take a closer look at what's possible with Mathematica and share your own success story...
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Wolfram Education Group announces new Bring Your Own Laptop (BYOL) training. Our BYOL sessions offer the same high-quality courses we are known for around the world, with one important difference: people bring their own computers to class. This allows lower tuition and some terrific locations...
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Application Packages

Digital Image Processing 2.2 fully integrates with Mathematica 6 to offer an ideal framework for creating and automating custom image analyses, prototyping procedures, and developing new image processing algorithms...
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Wolfram application package Time Series 1.4, a fully integrated environment for time-dependent data analysis, is now Mathematica 6 compatible...
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The majority of third-party applications are now compatible with Mathematica 6. A complete list is available online...
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Upcoming Events

Mark your calendars! The International Mathematica User Conference 2008 will take place October 23-25 in Champaign, Illinois, home of Wolfram Research. Join us as we celebrate 20 years of innovation and excellence...
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Register now for the 9th International Mathematica Symposium, an interdisciplinary conference for Mathematica users around the world, which will be held in Maastricht, the Netherlands, from June 20-24, 2008...
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The NKS Summer School 2008 will be held June 23 - July 11 at the University of Vermont. Join us for this unique opportunity to get involved with original research at the frontiers of science...
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The Romania Mathematica Conference 2008 is May 8 at Universitatea Politehnica Bucuresti in Romania. Registration is required because space is limited...
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Register now for an exciting opportunity to experience the revolutionary advancements Mathematica 6 offers China's technical computing community: the China Mathematica Tour 2008 is May 14-23...
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This July 13-18, Rocky Mountain Mathematica will help educators, scientists, and engineers enhance their use of Mathematica for presentations, projects, teaching, and research. Register now for introductory or intermediate five-day courses...
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New in Print

Essentials of Mathematica: With Applications to Mathematics and Physics, by Nino Boccara...
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Exploring Scanning Probe Microscopy with Mathematica, Second Edition, by Dror Sarid...
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Introduction to the Mathematics of Operations Research with Mathematica, Second Edition, by Kevin J. Hastings...
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Physical Chemistry, with Mathematica workbooks, by Horia Metiu...
Thermodynamics
Statistical Mechanics
Kinetics
Quantum Mechanics

Did You Know?

...that you can subscribe to the Wolfram Blog by email--to get the latest news, views, and ideas from the front lines at Wolfram Research...
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...Mathematica 6 is compatible with Mac OS X Leopard...
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...students who have purchased Mathematica for Students or are using the student version through their school's site license can convert their license to the professional version of Mathematica at a significant discount after graduation...
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...typing [Ctrl]+[D] or choosing Graphics Drawing Tools in Mathematica 6 brings up the Drawing Tools palette to create and edit graphics...
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...Wolfram Education Group now offers eight free seminars that provide you with an easy way to learn about what's new in Mathematica and find out about emerging technologies. Some are presented in Japanese, Chinese, and Russian...
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In the News

Apple uses Mathematica Personal Grid Edition for the new Mac Pro's technical computing benchmarks on its website...
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Mathematica 6 earned an Editors' Choice rating from Macworld UK, which describes it as "the best software we've ever used, and a must-have for casual and serious students and science professionals"...
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PC Pro author Jon Honeyball describes Mathematica Player documents and webMathematica-generated pages as "a next-generation PDF format with interactivity and a level of smarts that will blow your head off"...
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"Mathematica is the world's largest Swiss Army knife," says Physicist Robert Lang, quoted in "The Art and Science of Paper Folding." According to Lang, who creates origami masterpieces with the help of Mathematica, "You can do anything in it: analyze, compute, simulate, visualize. And almost any project that involves something I've never done before probably involves Mathematica at some point"...
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