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Gordon Weinberg
Adjunct Instructor
University of Pittsburgh

I will be teaching part time at University of Pittsburgh Department of Statistics, and CMU Department of Statistics in Spring 2012.

Materials for Spring 2011 Pitt Course

All documents for my Pitt course will be available on http://courseweb.pitt.edu

Previous Courses Taught (by topic)

(materials taken offline, to free-up disk space)

Statistics:
- CMU Stat 201, Fall 2011
- Pitt Stat 1000 (Tues/Thurs section), Fall 2011
- Pitt Stat 1100 (business stat), Fall 2011
- CMU Stat 201, Spring 2011
- CMU Stat 202, Spring 2011
- Pitt Stat 1000, Spring 2011
- CMU Stat 201, Fall 2010
- Pitt Stat 200, Fall 2010
- CMU Stat 201, Spring 2010
- CMU Stat 201 - OLI (online version), Spring 2010
- Pitt Stat 1100 (business stat), Spring 2010
- Pitt Stat 1000, Spring 2010
- CMU Stat 201, Fall 2009
- Pitt Stat 1100 (business stat), Fall 2009
- Pitt Stat 200, Fall 2009
- CMU Stat 201, Spring 2009
- Pitt Stat 1100 (business stat), Spring 2009
- Pitt Stat 1000, Spring 2009
- CMU Stat 201, Fall 2008
- Pitt Stat 1100 (business stat), Fall 2008
- Pitt Stat 1100 (business stat), Spring 2008
- Pitt Stat 1000, Spring 2008
- CMU Stat 201, Spring 2008
- CMU Stat 201, Fall 2007
- Pitt Stat 200 (day section), Fall 2007
- Pitt Stat 200 (night section), Fall 2007
- Pitt Stat 200 (tuesday-only section), Spring 2007
- Pitt Stat 200 (twice-weekly section), Spring 2007
- CMU Stat 201, Spring 2007
- Pitt Stat 1000, Fall 2006
- CMU Stat 201, Fall 2006
- Pitt Stat 1000, Spring 2006
- CMU Stat 201, Spring 2006
- CMU Stat 201, Fall 2005
- CCAC-Allegheny, Summer 2005
- U. Pitt Stat 1000, Spring 2005
- CMU Stat 201, Spring 2005
- CMU Stat 201, Fall 2004
- CMU Stat 201, Summer 2004
- U. Pitt Stat 1000, Spring 2004
- U. Pitt Stat 200, Spring 2004
Calculus:
- Calc 3:
  - CCAC-Allegheny Calc 3, Summer 2011
  - CCAC-Allegheny Calc 3, Summer 2010
- Calc 2:
  - CCAC-Allegheny Calc 2, Summer 2008
  - U. Pitt Calc 2, Fall 2003
- Calc 1:
  - CCAC-Allegheny Calc 1, Summer 2007
  - CCAC-Allegheny Calc 1, Summer 2006
  - CCAC Calc 1, Summer 2004
  - U. Pitt Calc 1, Fall 2003
- Business Calc:
  - CCAC-Allegheny Business Calculus, Summer 2011
  - CCAC-Allegheny Business Calculus, Summer 2009
  - CCAC-Allegheny Business Calculus, Summer 2008
  - U. Pitt Business Calc, Fall 2004
Precalc:
- CCAC-Allegheny Precalc, Spring 2010
Trigonometry:
- CCAC-Allegheny Trigonometry, Spring 2008
Freshman Survey Mathematics:
- Carlow College Quantitative Reasoning, Fall 2003 and Spring 2004
College Algebra:
- CCAC-Allegheny, Summer 2007
- CCAC-Allegheny, Spring 2006
- CCAC-Allegheny, Fall 2005
- CCAC-Allegheny, Summer 2005
- Carlow College, Spring 2004

Professional Development

Faculty Advisor, Carnegie Mellon SURG-Funded Study, 'Identifying Risk Factors for Depression in the First Year of College,' Spring 2011 - Present
Faculty Advisor for undergraduate student survey project, funded through a $950 Small Undergrad Research Grant.
Content Developer, Carnegie Mellon CC-OLI-Statistics Working Group, Spring/Summer 2010
Paid participation for content development, to adapt the Carnegie Mellon Online Statistics Course to Community Colleges and other Universities.
CMU Department of Statistics Undergrad Committee, Fall 2009 - Present.
University of Pittsburgh Faculty of Arts and Sciences 'Speaking In the Disciplines' Fellowship, Fall 2008.
$1200 Fellowship for participation in semester-long faculty seminar to encorporate student speaking into Introductory Statistics.

Some Math in the News

Math Mistakes Kill
Nurses fail to realize they're giving wrong dosages.
Computing Errors Cause Disasters
Roundoff error killed 28 U.S. soldiers in the first Gulf War, overflow error caused the destruction of a 7.5 billion dollar European space rocket, and lack of careful computer modeling sank a 90,000 ton offshore oil rig.
Wrong Unit Conversion causes disaster
Misunderstood units caused loss of the Mars Orbiter.
Pure math saves money
"In the highly successful 1994 United States FCC auction of broadcast frequency wavelengths, experts in mathematical game theory had been consulted to carefully design the auction to maximize both the payoff for the government as well as the utility of the purchased wavelengths for buyers. By contrast, a similar New Zealand auction held without such careful attention to design resulted in the government realizing only 15% of the potential earnings, while the wavelengths were not efficiently distributed (in one case, a student bought a TV license for one dollar!)."
--source: Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 45, number 10, 1998, p. 1331, paraphrasing from "A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr." by Sylvia Nasar.

Last updated 1 January 2012 by Gordon Weinberg.
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