CS 323E: Elements of Scientific Computing

Spring 2004

Unique Number: 50940

Time: T-Th 9:30-11am
Place: ETC 5.132
Course URL: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/inderjit/courses/cs323e
Computer Lab: Elements Lab PAI 5.38
Prerequisites: CS 303E or equivalent, M408C, M408D, and Credit with a grade of at least C or registration for M 341 (or 311) or 340L.

Professor: Inderjit Dhillon
Email: inderjit@cs.utexas.edu
Office: ACES 2.332
Office Hours: Tue 11am-noon (other times by appointment)

TA: Yuqiang Guan
Email: yguan@cs.utexas.edu
Office Hours: Mon 3:30-5pm in PAI 5.38

Textbook

  • Introduction to Scientific Computing by Charles F. Van Loan, Second Edition, Prentice Hall, 1999
  • It is highly recommended that you purchase the Student Edition of MATLAB
  • A sample MATLAB Tutorial.

    • Syllabus

  • Basics of MATLAB
  • Floating point number systems and roundoff errors
  • Interpolation (polynomial and piecewise polynomial)
  • Solving systems of linear equations
  • Numerical integration
  • Ordinary differential equations

    • Grading

  • 30% homeworks (due in class every Tuesday 9:30am)
  • 10% class attendance and participation
  • 60% exams (1 midterm + final)

    • Handouts

  • Class Survey, Jan 20.
  • Homework 1 (Postscript, PDF).
  • Homework 2 (Postscript, PDF).
  • Homework 3 (Postscript, PDF).
  • Homework 4 (Postscript, PDF).
  • Homework 5 (Postscript, PDF).
  • Homework 6 (Postscript, PDF).
  • Homework 8 (Postscript, PDF).
  • Homework 9 (Postscript, PDF).
  • Homework 10 (Postscript, PDF).
  • Homework 11 (Postscript, PDF).

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