MATH1070: Frontiers in Computational Science

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Lecture Material Semester 2, 2005 Lectures will demonstrate applications and the most important principles. However most of your learning will be in the labs.  Lectures will roughly follow the week by week plan below Here are links to some of the lecture notes. This material will be heavily annotated during class, and extra material will be given.  Simply printing these notes is not a substitute for attending class. MG Lecture 1 MG Lecture 2 MG Lecture 3 MG Lecture 4 To view PDF files you need a viewer like Acrobat.   Visit SI net for the lecture timetable and see the University map for the location.

Week	Start		Lecture Topic	Prac Session	Assessment
1	25 July	1	Introduction to Computational Science & Applications.  (Prof. B. Pailthorpe)	Introductory Matlab.
		2	Programming (I/O, Loops, iterations)
2	1 Aug	3	Solving Equations: Linear (matrix), non-linear (roots)	More Matlab
		4	DEs – exponential growth & decay
3	8 Aug	5	Physics Applications – Motion in 1D, 2D
		6	Projectiles
4	15Aug	7	Physics cont’d – Oscillations, Simple Harmonic Motion		Assignment (To be distributed Wed 24 August)
		8	No Lecture – public holiday
5	22 Aug	9	Physics cont’d – Energy flows & conservation in SHM	Chaos
		10	Chemistry Applications – reactions in the atmosphere; reaction rates; coupled DEs
6	29 Aug	11	Chemistry cont’d – couples reactions		Assignment due Mon31 Aug at 5.00pm
		12	Guest lecture (tba) – Computational Modelling of the Earth (Dr Dion Weatherly)
7	5 Sept	13	Hypothesis-driven models in biology	Comp Biol P1	Comp Biol Assignment 1: (Due Friday 9^th Sept )
		14	Problem Solving in Biol systems
8	12  Sept	15	Biology cont’d: Problem Solving in Biol systems 2	Comp Biol P2
		16	Enzyme Kinetics
9	19 Sept	17	Biology cont’d: Flow Models	Comp Biol P3	Comp Biol Assignment 2: (Due Friday 23^rd. Sept )
		18	Conclusion – models of biological systems
	26 Sept	Mid Semester Break
10	3 Oct	19	Complex Systems: Chaos (Dr Marcus Gallagher)
		20	Emergence
11	10 Oct	21	Complex Systems cont’d: Agents		Assignment (Due Friday 14^th Oct)
		22	Patterns
12	17 Oct	23	Complex Systems cont’d
		24	Complex Systems cont’d
13	25 Oct	25	Conclusion and Revision		Assignment (Due Friday 27^th Oct)
	31 Oct	Revision Period
Exams	7-14 Nov				Final Exam (50%)

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