Intro to Scientific Computing

Tim Hickey will be teaching a new course this semester, CS177 Introduction to Scientific Computing. The course meets MWT 9-10 and has no prerequisites.  The first part of the course will be an introduction to the lingua franca of the Scientific programming community Matlab/Octave. The second part of the course will cover the use of Matlab/Octave to solve a variety of scientific problems using various techniques including statistical analysis, curve fitting, optimization, ordinary and partial differential equation solving, image processing, SVD and other matrix factorizations, 2d and 3d plotting. Students will also learn to use  a number of tools for collaboration and dissemination of scientific results including LaTeX for scientific papers, GIT for source code sharing, google docs for shared editing and google sites for dissemination of results. For more info see the course website