Attend a Maple Tutorial at ECCAD 2004 Maplesoft is offering two free Maple tutorials for ECCAD 2004 attendees Date: Saturday, May 8, 2004 Time: 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm Location: TBD Title: Getting the most out of Maple's LinearAlgebra Package Maplesoft Presenter: Dave Linder, Team Lead, Mathematical Software The LinearAlgebra package in Maple is an environment for doing symbolic and numeric linear algebra computations. Several techniques can be used to get the most out of this package, in terms of efficiency, speed, memory consumption, and results. Without requiring prior knowledge of the package, this tutorial will present a number of such techniques, with examples from such areas as linear system solving at high precision, modular linear algebra, and use of datatypes. The session will involve the participants in using Maple themselves on supplied worksheet material. The goal of the material is to allow greater understanding through discovery, both of some potential difficulties and the means to avoid them. Prior knowledge of basic mathematical linear algebra will be useful to the participant. Links and references to further reading and documents will be provided. Title: Maplets - A Customizable Interface to Maple Maplesoft Presenter: Stephen Forrest, Developer, Mathematical Software This tutorial will introduce Maplets, a customizable interface to Maple that allows an author of Maple code to create windows, dialogs, and other visual interfaces that interact with a user to provide the power of Maple in a friendlier environment. We will see how to create simple Maplets with only a few lines of code, how to add simple buttons, boxes, and menus to your Maplet, and how to build programming logic into your Maplet so that complex Maple calculations can be performed with the click of a mouse. After a short introduction, the session will be interactive. Attendees will have the opportunity to write their own Maplets. We will begin with a simple example and build up to the point where we can create more advanced Maplets. To register for one of these tutorials please email Helene Chatterton at hchatterton@maplesoft.com with the following details: Name Title Institution Email Phone number Address Please note that these tutorials will run concurrently, so please specify which session you would like to register for. If you have any questions regarding the Maple tutorials contact: Helene Chatterton Maplesoft 615 Kumpf Drive Waterloo, ON N2V 1K8 hchatterton@maplesoft.com 519-747-2373 ext. 309 www.maplesoft.com