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The Workshop
on applications of the Taylor Center software
for teaching and numeric experimentation

As explained in the other sections, the Taylor Center software has a great potential as an assisting tool:

• For teaching applied ODEs, graphics, and the adjacent topics engaging (and entertaining) the students with its 2D and 3D (stereo) real time animation;
  
• For teaching dynamics, particularly in general and celestial mechanics and physics.

Due to its ability to achieve the highest accuracy of integration (with 64 bit mantissa of the real type extended), this software is also indispensable for numeric experiments and obtaining solutions of some challenging problems where other types of software fail.

With that in mind, the teachers and researchers in the above mentioned fields are invited to participate in the Workshop functioning mostly remotely via the Internet tools such as email, Skype conferences, or telephone.

There are at least three forms of participation and collaboration:

• For those wishing to install the software at their own PC in order to experiment with the particular features for advancing their challenging numeric problems.
• For those not wishing to run this software on their own, but ready to share their challenging problems with me (see the contact) so that I try to solve them using this software and to share the results with the authors.
  
• For authors of the existing or future (text-) books on ODEs wishing to enrich their books by adding a set of dynamic samples in 2D and 3D (played via this software), and to illustrate every example and problem in their textbook, therefore making the textbook more attractive and catching. Please send me your suggestions.
  

The necessary consultations and exchanges will take place on a regular basis via the usual means of communication. We will accumulate the problems successfully solved with this software into a special section at this site, and for discussions at our workshops. If this activity grows, in the future we may wish to meet physically for such a workshop either as a small independent event, or in a frame of some bigger mathematical events.  

Here is a categorized list of over 70 samples (coming with the installation of the software) collected randomly during the years of developing of this project. These samples give an idea of how much more may be gathered with collective efforts to establish a growing Exploratorium. 

Welcome to the Workshop!

Alexander Gofen
The Taylor Center
10/17/2017