Introduction to Scientific computing
Math 551, Fall 2004 - - - - T, Th 1-2:15, room 219
Instructor:  Dr. Alexandros Sopasakis Grader:
 Ishani Roy
Office hours : T 2:30-4:00, Th 4:00-5:30
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Office : LGRT 1426
LGRT 1235 C
phone : 413 - 545 0823
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email : sopas@math.umass.edu


Daily Schedule - Notes and Assignments
(Blue background denotes exam dates)
Tuesday

Thursday




9/9
 Calculus Review
Floating point arithmetic
Error Analysis
* Assignment 1 *

14/9
 Calculus Review (cont.)
Root Finding I
* Assignment 2 *
16/9
 Root Finding II
Due: Assignment 1

21/9
 Root Finding III
Due: Assignment 2
(Last day to add/drop)
23/9
 Root Finding III (cont.)
* Assignment 3 *

28/9
 Lagrange Interpolation
Newton Interpolation
30/9 Hermite Interpolation
* Assignment 4 *
Due: Assignment 3

5/10
   Spline Interpolation
* Assignment 5 *
7/10 - - No Class - -
Just work on your assignments

12/10
 Numerical Differentiation
Due: Assignment 4
14/10 Numerical differentiation
(cont.)

19/10
 Review for Midterm Exam
Due: Assignment 5
21/10
 Midterm Exam
Bring 1 page of hand-written notes (both sides),
calculator and pen/pencil

26/10
 Returning Midterm Exam
Richardson Extrapolation
* Assignment 6 *
28/10
 Numerical Integration
Composite Integration
* Assignment 7 *
Due: Assignment 6

2/11
 Adaptive Integration
Gaussian Integration
4/11
 Romberg Integration
Matrix Algebra introdunction
* Assignment 8 *
Due: Assignment 7

9/11 Direct Methods
(LU,  Choleski,  Crout's, etc.)
* Assignment 9 *
11/11
 Veterans Day
(no class)

16/11
 Iterative Methods
(Jacobi, Gauss-Seidel, etc.)
Due: Assignment 8
* Assignment 10 *

18/11
 Partial Diff. Equations (PDEs)
Due: Assignment 9

23/11
 Parabolic PDE's
Due: Assignment 10
* (last) Assignment 11 *

Nov. 25
 Happy Thanksgiving
(no class)

Nov. 30
 PDE Example
Dec. 2
  Hyperbolic PDE's

Dec. 7
 Review for final exam
(Your grades to date will also
be provided during this meeting)
Due: Assignment 11
Dec. 9
 Final Exam (Last class day)
In class, from 1pm-2:15pm
Bring 1 page of hand-written notes (both sides),
calculator and pen/pencil










18/12 Final Exam (option)
  at 2:00pm
in LGRT 321

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