620-151
Introduction to Biomedical Mathematics
Semester I, 2005
Your lecturer is Dr Andrew Rechnitzer.
He can be found in Room 198, Richard Berry building.
I and all the teaching staff of this course welcome you
to what we hope will be an enjoyable and instructive semester.
The 2001 exam with full worked solutions is available from the "lecture notes" link.
The 2004 exam is also available. Try to do it in 3 hours without looking at your notes! The solutions are also available!
There were some small errors in the notes for topic 11 (around the subtopics on "equilibriums" and "logistic model").
Please get the revised versions from the "lecture notes" link.
George Dantzig, the creator of the Simplex method and one of the most important mathematicians of the last 100 years,
died very recently - read about him here.
By popular demand, the lecture notes for topics 7, 8, 10 and 11 are available online.
They are available through the "lecture notes" link.
When and where are the lectures?
Monday, Wednesday and Friday
9:00 am until 10:00 am
In the Laby Theatre (Physics)
When and where are my tutorials? Who is my tutor?
Please check the notice boards in the Richard Berry building.
See Susan Wilson in room G46 if there is a problem.
The tutors are
Ted Clarke, Sally Kuhlmann, Chris McCaw, Paul McCormick and Bert Mond.
Sally Kuhlmann (G43) is also the tutor coordinator for 620-151.
Is there a textbook?
Yup.
It is "APPLIED MATHEMATICS FOR BUSINESS, ECONOMICS, LIFE SCIENCES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES"
(6th, 7th or 8th editions)
by Raymond A Barnett, Michael R Ziegler and Karl E Byleen,
published by Prentice-Hall.
The text will often be referred to in lectures, and all students in 620-151 are
strongly urged to acquire their own copy.
What about assessment, course plan and other vital info about this course?
Check out this PDF file which is just
the first part of the course booklet handed out in class.
The mid-semester test will be held during the lecture on Friday 22nd April.
STOP! This may be useful to you!!! Have you heard about TutOR?
TutOR is an interactive web site (locally produced!) with heaps of useful
information and tools for the study of Operations Research: the
study of which includes Linear Programming (the topic of the first part of our course).
Included here are modules on Linear equations, row operations, matrices and the SIMPLEX method.
There is a SPECIAL WEBSITE for 151 students: click HERE.
Especially if you don't have a graphics calculator this is Highly Recommended - anyway this is much better!
If you want to check your Simplex calculations this is perfect!!!
In general, I will not be giving out the lecture notes. Occasionally there will be some topics in the course that require
a lot of writing. During those topics I will perhaps give some lecture notes. You will be able to get them from
here.
An important note about plagiarism (University Policy)
Please note that it is University policy that students sign a statement concerning plagiarism for all non-exam
assessment.
The assignments in 620-151 are such non-exam assessment. You will be asked to sign such a statement
at the beginning of semester that will cover all your assignment work in 620-151.
I need some assistance and my classmates can't help?
Generally, if you have problem-sheet questions then first consult a tutor in your tutorial.
A duty tutor will be available for consultation.
Check the Mathematics and Statistics Learning Centre
for times and places.
You can also see the tutor coordinator - Sally Kuhlmann in G43.
Her consultation hours are:
Monday 10-11 and 2:15-3:15, Wednesday 1:10-2:10 and Thursday 3:15-4:15.
Sally's email address is S.Kuhlmann@ms.unimelb.edu.au
Of course you may consult me. My office consultation times are Mondays and Fridays
2pm until 3:30pm. If you need to contact me then email me: A.Rechnitzer@ms.unimelb.edu.au
or phone me: 8344 9731
Staff-Student-Liaison Committee representatives:
There are two class representatives.
Joshua De Bono - joshua_debono at hotmail.com
Ruth Muljadi - r.muljadi at ugrad.unimelb.edu.au
Generic skills
This link lists the generic skills this course aims for you to achieve.
