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COS 323 - Computing for the Physical and Social Sciences |
Fall 2013 |
| Course home | Outline and lecture notes | Assignments |
Please note that this schedule is very tentative, and will change.
| Date | Topic (click for lecture notes) | Readings | Assignments |
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| Thu, Sep 12 | Intro; numerical computation and accuracy | Ch. 1, 2; Yikes.java; Article on top 10 algorithms |
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| Tue, Sep 17 | Root finding | Ch. 3.1-3.4 | |
| Thu, Sep 19 | Optimization | Ch. 3.5, 9.2 Golden section search Java applet | |
| Tue, Sep 24 | Constrained optimization and linear programming | Ch. 9.3 (optional) | Assignment 0 due |
| Thu, Sep 26 | Solving linear systems | Ch. 5 | |
| Fri, Sep 27 | Help session | Notes | |
| Tue, Oct 1 | Linear systems: iterative and sparse methods | Ch. 7 | |
| Thu, Oct 3 | Continuation of linear systems: sparse methods, stability | ||
| Fri, Oct 4 | Help session | Notes | |
| Tue, Oct 8 | Data modeling and least squares fitting | Ch. 6 | Assignment 1 due |
| Thu, Oct 10 | Nonlinear least squares; robust fitting | ||
| Fri, Oct 11 | Help session | Notes | |
| Tue, Oct 15 | QR, SVD and application to least squares | Ch. 8 | |
| Thu, Oct 17 | Applications of SVD; Kalman filtering | UNC notes on Kalman filter | |
| Fri, Oct 18 | Help session | Notes | |
| Tue, Oct 22 | Review | Assignment 2 due | |
| Thu, Oct 24 | In-class exam #1 | List of covered topics Last year's exam #1 |
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| Tue, Oct 29 | No class - fall break | ||
| Thu, Oct 31 | No class - fall break | ||
| Tue, Nov 5 | Integration | Ch. 15 | |
| Thu, Nov 7 | Monte Carlo integration | ||
| Tue, Nov 12 | Ordinary differential equations | Ch. 16 | |
| Thu, Nov 14 | More on ODEs; Chaos | ||
| Tue, Nov 19 | Finite-difference
approximations for derivatives; Partial differential equations | Assignment 3 due | |
| Thu, Nov 21 | Simulation | ||
| Tue, Nov 26 | Statistics | ||
| Thu, Nov 28 | No class - Thanksgiving | ||
| Tue, Dec 3 | Signal processing, convolution | Final Project Proposal due | |
| Thu, Dec 5 | Fast Fourier transform | Ch. 13 | |
| Tue, Dec 10 | Review | ||
| Thu, Dec 12 | In-class exam #2 | List of covered topics Last year's exam #2 |
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| Fri, Dec 13 | Assignment 4 due | ||
| Tue, Jan 7 | Project Checkpoint due | ||
| Tue, Jan 14 | Dean's date | Final project writeup due |