Skip to Main Content Skip to Search
File Exchange
MATLAB Newsgroup
Link Exchange
  Blogs  
 Contest 
MathWorks.com

Loren on the Art of MATLAB

May 9th, 2007

MATLAB Tour Legs 1,2, and 3

I've just returned home from three weeks in Europe on the MATLAB World Tour where I visited Italy, Spain, France, and Switzerland, accompanied by various colleagues. We met great staff from our local offices in each place, and had a wonderful time meeting many of you. There's more of the tour to follow, throughout other European countries, as well as sites in Australia and Asia, so please visit our website and sign up, if possible, so we can meet you.

Contents

Italy

Scott and I started off in Milano.

Scott got this beautiful cup of coffee. It reminds me of this submission on the File Exchange.

Here's a shot of my master class. The class was very interactive, with some participants "earning" a MATLAB T-shirt for asking a good question or answering a complex question well.

Spain

Scott and I then went to Madrid.

More T-shirts rewarded for participation. (Hint: this is worth keeping in mind for the future, if you come to visit us on the tour elsewhere.)

France

Next stop, meeting Mike in Toulouse.

We met some customers throughout, including during the outdoors coffee break. Here's Jérôme Briot and Gaetan Guerin. Jérôme is an active participant on the MATLAB newsgroup when he is not doing his research in biomechanics.

We used Mike's clock as our timekeeper in France.

In Paris, we met Charles Lehalle who uses MATLAB heavily for his finance work, such as tools he's posted here.

Ambling around Paris, I saw tables of people playing chess in the park.

And these charming mice showed up at the Musée d'Orsay.

Switzerland

Next stop, Zurich, where Sam

and I met up with another great group of users.

Souvenirs

I didn't buy much on my trip, but here are a few delicacies that I brought home for gifts. Such beautiful packaging!

All in all, great memories, including those from meeting with so many curious customers!


Get the MATLAB code

Published with MATLAB® 7.4

2 Responses to “MATLAB Tour Legs 1,2, and 3”

  1. Scott Hirsch replied on :

    Thanks for sharing these pictures with all of us, Loren! The tour continues to be a blast - we just presented to large crowds in Stockholm, Sweden and Ulm, Germany, and are preparing for a big group tomorrow in Hannover. Thanks also for posting that very flattering picture of me at the beginning of your blog :)

  2. lehalle replied on :

    thank you for your talks during the tour, Loren, hoping to see you again soon.

Leave a Reply


Loren Shure works on design of the MATLAB language at The MathWorks. She writes here about once a week on MATLAB programming and related topics.

  • J.B. Brown: Ah, and I am at fault for simply testing collinearity with the origin in the example above.
  • J.B. Brown: Indeed, > collinear( [0 3],[0 8],[0 -1e21+2e-15] ) ans = 1 > collinear( [0 3],[0 8],[0 -1e22+2e-15]...
  • OkinawaDolphin: Loren, thank you for telling me where to download timeit. Here are the two functions I just tested...
  • Loren: JB- It looks to me like Ilya’s solution and therefore yours are equivalent to the determinant. As Tim...
  • Loren: OkinawaDolphin, timeit can be downloaded from the File Exchange. Steve Eddins is the author. It does not ship...
  • OkinawaDolphin: It seems that neither R2007a nor R2007b have the function timeit, but I investigated computation time...
  • J.B. Brown: It would appear to me that Ilya Rozenfeld’s solution would be the cleanest. Just to help those who...
  • Loren: Markus- Congratulations on winning! And a nice illustration of how the size matters. Small enough, and the...
  • Markus: Hi Loren, which version is fastest also depends very much on the matrix dimensions. Look at my test function:...
  • Duncan: OkinawaDolphin, Regarding why your third example is slower than your second example, the result is in fact...

These postings are the author's and don't necessarily represent the opinions of The MathWorks.

Related Topics