Splash Biography
JAMES ZHOU, ESP Teacher
|
Major: Math College/Employer: UChicago Year of Graduation: 2020 |
|
Brief Biographical Sketch:
Not Available. Past Classes(Clicking a class title will bring you to the course's section of the corresponding course catalog)A1797: Intro to Film Projection at Doc Films in Droplet Winter 2020 (Feb. 08, 2020)
Everybody's seen movies in theaters, but have you ever wondered how the image actually makes it onto the big screen? Now you get to try it yourself! You will learn to project both 16mm and 35mm film as well as digital formats with a projectionist at the University theater and film society, Doc Films.
M1719: P vs NP: What's the Problem? in Splash Spring Splash 2018 (May. 05, 2018)
The P vs NP problem is one of the major unsolved problems in math and computer science today. It even has a million dollar prize. But what exactly is it?
It's a problem about other problems, from finding solutions to systems of equations to Sudoku, asking how fast they can be solved. While we won't be able to solve P vs NP in this class, we will go through what it is and why it is so important.
A1626: What are the Chances of That? in Splash Splash Spring 2017 (Apr. 29, 2017)
Have you ever wondered:
What are the chances of winning the lottery? Rolling two sixes? Drawing an ace? Picking a perfect bracket? Having the same birthday as somebody else?
In this class, you will discover how to find the chances of various events, both everyday and one-in-a-million.
|
|