Day
| Topics
| Reading
| Assignment
| Week 0 | 9/11-Thurs
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Outline 0.1: Modeling, applications survey
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Assignment 1: Simulation (population genetics)
| Week 1 | 9/16-Tues
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Outline 1.1: Simulation, population genetics example
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| Quiz 1
| 9/18-Thurs
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Outline 1.2: Using random numbers
| NR: 274-290
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| Precept, week 1
| Plotting options
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| Week 2 | 9/23-Tues
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Outline 1.3: Interpreting results, descriptive statistics
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| Quiz 2
| 9/25-Thurs
| Student reports, discussion
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| Assignment 1 DUE | Assignment 2: Root Finding and Optimization (Economics Applications) Precept, week 2
| Re: Assignment 1
| NR: 5-31
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| Week 3 | 9/30-Tues
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Outline 2.1: Rootfinding
| NR: 347-374;379-384
| Quiz 3
| 10/2-Thurs
| Class cancelled
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| Precept, week 3
| Symbolic computation using mathematica and maple
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| Week 4 | 10/7-Tues
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Outline 2.2: Optimization, 1-dim.
| NR: 394-408
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| 10/9-Thurs
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Outline 2.3: Optimization, n-dim.
| NR: 408-430
| Quiz 4
| Precept, week 4
| Re: Assignment 2
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| Week 5 | 10/14-Tues
| Student reports, discussion
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| Assignment 2 DUE | Assignment 3: Ordinary Differential Equations (Chemical Oscillator) 10/16-Thurs
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Outline 3.1: Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs): basics
| NR: 707-710
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| Precept, week 5
| Matlab
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| Week 6 (Midterm Week) | 10/21-Tues
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Outline 3.2: ODEs continued
| NR: 710-714
| Quiz 5
| 10/23-Thurs
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Outline 3.3: ODEs continued; nonlinear pendulum examples
| NR: 714-722; 734-737
| Quiz 6
| Precept, week 6
| Re: Assignment 3
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| FALL RECESS | Week 7 | 11/4-Tues
| Student reports, discussion
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| Assignment 3 DUE | 11/6-Thurs
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Outline 4.1: Partial differential equations (PDEs): basics
| NR: 827-834
| Quiz 7 | Assignment 4: Partial Differential Equations (Wave Equation) Precept, week 7
| EIN: listen to your work, | Part I
[LS95]
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| Week 8 | 11/11-Tues
| Student reports, discussion
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Midterm Proposals DUE | 11/13-Thurs
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Outline 4.2: PDEs continued
| NR: 834-842
| Quiz 8 | Precept, week 8
| EIN: listen to your work, | Part II
[LS95]
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| Week 9 | 11/18-Tues
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Outline 4.3: PDEs continued; nonlinear Schrödinger equation
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| Quiz 9
| 11/20-Thurs
| Student reports, discussion
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| Assignment 4 DUE | Assignment 5: Image Processing and the the FFT code Precept, week 9
| Re: Assignment 4
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| Week 10 | 11/25-Tues
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Outline 5.1: The Fourier Transform
| NR: 496-504
| Quiz 10
| 11/27-Thurs
| THANKSGIVING BREAK
| No Precept
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| Week 11 | 12/2-Tues
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Outline 5.2:The FFT Algorithm
| NR: 504-532
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| 12/4-Thurs
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Outline 5.3: Using the FFT
| NR: 537-558
| Quiz 11 | Precept, week 11
| Re: Assignment 5
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| Week 12 | 12/9-Tues
| Student reports, discussion
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| Assignment 5 DUE
| 12/11-Thurs
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Outline ca.1: Cellular automata
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| No Precept
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| Reading Period, dates TBA | -
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NR = [PTVF92] = text = ``Numerical Recipes in C''