An Overview of MATLAB at VUW
Introduction | Topics Covered | Who Should Attend? | About MATLAB  About The Presenter | Seminar Details | Registration
		Introduction Victoria University has a License for MATLAB and many toolboxes, that can be used at no charge by all staff and students. It is a great tool for many kinds of numerical data analysis and presentation, and for symbolic mathematics as well. While having all the power of programming languages, it is much simpler to get started, and has many features available as tested, reliable functions that would otherwise have to be programmed from scratch. This seminar will introduce the basic concepts of the MATLAB environment as implemented at VUW. Brief examples will be given of some of the less obvious but very useful techniques.
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		Topics Covered • What is MATLAB? • What toolboxes does the VUW TAH have? • Basic features of MATLAB • Customising plots and re-using them • Simple programming techniques • Publishing programs • Creating a Graphical User Interface to your program • Compiling programs for distribution • Analysing data with the Statistics and Curve Fitting toolboxes • Introduction to Simulink • Modelling physical systems with SimScape • Symbolic calculations in Mupad • Using the Help Menu in MATLAB (For examples, troubleshooting, etc) •  Where to find MATLAB resources online (MATLAB Central, Student tutorials, Academic Resources, etc)
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		Who should attend? Professors, Academics, Researchers, Lecturers, Post Graduate Students, or anyone wanting to use MATLAB for their teaching and research.
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		About the Presenter Dr Ray Hoare has degrees in mathematics, physics and chemistry and worked for many years in industrial and environmental science. For more than 20 years he has been helping people to analyse engineering, science and business data, as well as presenting seminars and training people in the use of statistical software.
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		About MATLAB & Simulink MATLAB is a mathematical programming environment which combines an extremely easy-to-use programming language with a huge set of functions that you can call to facilitate your data analysis or model development. Many of these functions are provided in the base program, but toolboxes and other products work with MATLAB to give you application-specific tools for many engineering disciplines. Simulink extends MATLAB to enable you to use a block-diagram approach to modelling time-varying systems. As well as modelling the systems, Simulink can create code that can be directly loaded on to microprocessors, for instance when you need to build control rules into a device. To make modelling of physical systems easier, The MathWorks have introduced a set of products that work with Simulink, so that instead of using a block diagram of the mathematics, you can represent physical objects such as levers or motors in the diagram. The translation into mathematics is done automatically for you by SimScape or other products in this range. MATLAB and its associated products find extensive application in many fields of engineering, most scientific disciplines, and mathematical based business areas such as econometrics and financial analysis. Click here for more info on MATLAB. Click here for more info on Simulink.
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		Seminar Details The seminar will run for approximately 50mins. If you can not attend the seminar, email bruce@hrs.co.nz to obtain an information pack.
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		Registration To register for this FREE seminar click on the registration link below and fill in the form.