Alex - scientific computing
syllabus
- numerical differential equations
- Matrices and Eigenvalues solutions
- Partial Differential Equations
- fast fourier transforms
- chaos (maybe at the end?)
- ... (Alex: please think about what you want...)
journal
- Sep 6 - pendulum
- Tue Sep 10 - gnuplot, discussion of schedule
- Tue Sep 17 - (oculus rift distraction) still on numerical diffeq 101
- Tue Sep 24 - Numerical Tests
- Tue Oct 1 - Numdif Library, FFT, Nature Article about Cosmology and concerns of Modeling Black Holes
- Tue Oct 8 - FFT, Shooting Methods, Numerical Relativity
- Tue Oct 17 - runfour Documentation
- Sun Oct 20 - Shooting method (reading)
- Mon Oct 21 - Implement Shooting method, Basics with FT
- Tue Oct 22 - Testing out iPython, ploting, rewritting the algorithms in IJulia
- Wed Oct 23 - IJulia html and plotting
- Thu Nov 15 - Eigenvalues and vectors
- Thu Nov 26 - Diagonalization, Linearization of Quantum Wave functions, Quantum Variational Principle
- Tue Dec 3 - Hartree-Fock on a Helium Atom, a discussion of their approach, and perturbations theory
- Wed Dec 18 - emailed last work
jim's explanations
- jim on oct 21: diffeq, harmonic oscillator, quantum shooting, DFT example + questions
- protected files (grades and other private materials)
