CS 3200 - Introduction to Scientific Computing

The following schedule is approximate and subject to change.

Date	Topic
Aug 18	Syllabus Introduction to Scientific Computing
Aug 20	Model Problems Euler Methods
Aug 25	Tools: Matlab and SciPy
Aug 27	Random Numbers and Monte Carlo Methods
Sept 1	*No Class* - Labor Day
Sept 3	Numeric Integration
Sept 8	Errors
Sept 10	Vectors, Matrices, and Linear Systems
Sept 15	1D Finite Difference
Sept 15	2D Finite Difference
Sept 22	Vector Norms, Matrix Norms and Condition Number
Sept 24	Gaussian Elimination LU Decomposition
Sept 29	Iterative Solvers Jacobi, Gauss-Seidel, SOR
Oct 1	Iterative Solvers Steepest Descent and Conjugate Gradients
Oct 6	*No Class* - Fall Break
Oct 8	*No Class* - Fall Break
Oct 13	Introduction to Meshing
Oct 15	Introduction to Meshing (cont.)
Oct 20	Introduction to Visualization and Perception
Oct 22	Introduction to Visualization and Perception (cont.)
Oct 27	Interpolation and ML
Oct 29	Scalar Field Visualization Using Isosurfacing
Nov 3	Scalar Field Visualization Using Volume Visualization
Nov 5	Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
Nov 10	Vector Field Visualization
Nov 12	SVD and PCA
Nov 17	Root Finding
Nov 19	Guest Lecturer - Machine Learning and Data Mining
Nov 24	Guest Lecturer - Virtual Reality
Nov 26	Guest Lecturers - Medical Visualization
Dec 1	Guest Lecturer - Jixian Li - Machine Learning and Visualization
Dec 3	Last Day of Class - What I Hope you Learned

SCI Institute Distinguished Lecture Schedule