应理学院张广教授邀请，加拿大Trent大学Marco Pollanen教授于2015年8月16日至19日访问我校。在访问期间做如下活动安排：
1、学术交流。时间：2015年8月17日上午10:00-11:00；地点：1-806；报告内容分两部分，其摘要见后边。
2、同我校部分学生交流。时间：2015年8月17日下午2:00开始；地点：1-806. 欢迎大家积极参与，了解国外学习和教育、留学事宜等。有意参加讨论的同学请提前联系李晶杰博士.
李晶杰： email: lxyljj@tjcu.edu.cn
张广教授： email: lxyzhg@tjcu.edu.cn
3、Marco Pollanen教授的CV可以在附件中找到。
Online Technologies for Improving Student Engagement in Mathematics
Dr. Marco Pollanen
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics, Trent University
Peterborough, ON, Canada K9J 7B8
Office: GCS 334, Phone: (705) 748-1011 x7543
Web: http://euclid.trentu.ca/math/marco
Abstract:
In an introductory post-secondary mathematics course, the backgrounds and motivation of students may be quite diverse, making it challenging to meet the needs of everyone. Students with weaker backgrounds might become frustrated with material seeming to pose an unrealistic challenge, perhaps causing them to drop the course, while stronger students might not be pushed enough to realize their full potential. The result is that both sets of student may not be fully engaged in the learning process. One possible solution to this problem may lie with online technologies that allow students an individualized level of support. In this presentation we discuss technologies we have developed for interactive online assignments and to make online mathematical communication easier for students, as well as our experiences in using them to increase student engagement in mathematics courses.
Modelling and Simulating Drought Risk
Abstract:
In this talk we introduce stochastic models for temperature and precipitation for arid climates in order to model drought risk so as to improve food security. We validate the models by using historical weather data to simulate the price of hypothetical drought derivative contracts designed to protect agricultural producers from the negative financial impacts associated with drought.