Introduction meeting

Schedule

Literature

W.H. Press, S.A. Teukolsky, W.T. Vetterling and B.P. Flannery, Numerical Recipes in C: The Art of Scientific Computing (Cambridge University Press, second edition): chapters 1, 3, 4, 7, 10, 16 och 19.

Lecture notes.

Hand-outs for the computer assignments and exercises.

Computer introduction

Course evaluations

It is obligatory to complete the web-based course evaluations.

You can do the course evaluation for HT08 here.

Here are links to some older course evaluations:

• VT06
• VT07
• HT07

Lectures

1-2:	Errors. Interpolation and extrapolation. Numerical integration.
3-6:	Random numbers and Monte Carlo.
7-8:	Optimization.
9-12:	Ordinary differential equations.
13-16:	Partial differential equations.
17-18:	Open.

Computer assignments

	Supervisor	Deadline
Monte Carlo integration (the HP model)	Iskra Staneva	08.10.02
Ordinary differential equations, Runge-Kutta	Iskra Staneva	08.10.16
The Poisson equation, successive overrelaxation	Iskra Staneva	08.10.30

Examination

Written exam on October 27.
A written reexamination will be given on the 27th of November 09:00-13:00 in seminar room NB.

Course responsible person

Leif Lönnblad, Leif.Lonnblad@thep.NOSPAM.lu.se, phone 046-2227780.