MATLAB® is a high-level language and interactive environment that enables you to perform computationally intensive tasks faster than with traditional programming languages such as C, C++, and Fortran.
You can use MATLAB in a wide range of applications including; signal and image processing, communications, control design, test and measurement, financial modelling and analysis, and computational biology. Add-on toolboxes (collections of special-purpose MATLAB functions, available separately) extend the MATLAB environment to solve particular classes of problems in these application areas.
Several users have got together under the guise of the MATLAB Special Interest Group, chaired by Meurig Gallagher (School of Mathematics), to enable users at the University of Birmingham to understand MATLAB and get the best out of this software. It is important to enable users to talk to each other and help overcome issues, thereby taking their research one step further.
MATLAB mailing lists
The following mailing lists have been created to keep you up to date on MATLAB courses, issues and success stories:
matlab-user-group-announce: This mailing list is used to give information about upcoming courses, seminars and tutorials by internal staff or external companies. This mailing list has a relatively low number of emails sent to it. If you need to send information to this mailing list, then please contact Meurig Gallagher, Assistant Professor (m.t.gallagher@bham.ac.uk), Chair of the MATLAB Specialist Interest Group.
matlab-user: This mailing lists is used to talk to other members of the lists, and is used primarily to talk about Matlab issues and/or how they were overcome. This is useful if you want to find answers to problems, or give general advice on how certain parts of MATLAB work.
How to subscribe to the mailing lists
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