Homepage of Math 551.2 (Introduction to Scientific Computing)
Meeting Information:
Classroom Location: Engineering Lab 304
Days and Times: TuTh 1PM - 2:15PM
Office hours: TuTh 11 AM - 12:30 PM or by appointment
Course Text:
A First Course in Numerical Methods, Authors: Uri M. Ascher and Chen Greif, Publisher:
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 2011.
Important note: UMass has an Institutional SIAM Membership. Thus,
a free e-book is available through the UMass library website.
Of course, a physical copy of the book can be purchased directly from the publisher,
SIAM at www.siam.org
Click here
for errata in the book.
Syllabus, Notes, Homework Assignments/Solutions can be found on Moodle
Matlab Programming
Any programming code should be written in
MATLAB,
or its clone, e.g., GNU Octave.
But it is your responsibility to make sure your code can be run in Matlab without any problem.
You can use OIT Computer
Classrooms which have copies of MATLAB for student, or get a free copy of Octave
here.
Here are a few links for help with MATLAB:
Midterm
Location: TBA
Days and Times: March 7 (Thursday) 7 PM - 9 PM
What to cover: TBD
Solution;
Final Exam
Location: TBD
Days and Times: TBD