Place and time:

Block course,

first meeting: Monday 19.2. 10am!

We encourage to form teams of two students for the submission of the exercises!

20.2 ->., daily 09:15 - 17:00,

NOTE: 

For an overview check the latest information at:

UKNUM2024.html

Slack Channel UKNUM

Language:

German / English, if requested

Prerequisites:

Basic knowledge of mathematics and physics, at least basics of one programming language (e.g. C, Fortran, C++).

Daily routine:

• Monday only: start 10 am!!!  
• 09:15 - 09:45: Discussion of the exercise from the previous day (students and tutor) 
• 09:45 - 11:15: Introduction into the new topic (lecturer) 
• 11:15 - 11:30: Break 
• 11:30 - 13:00: Exercise with support of the tutor and lecturers  
• Afternoon: independent working time for students. 

Schedule:

• Feb.19th: Lecture 1 : Introduction, number representation in a computer 
• Feb.20th: Lecture 2 : Interpolation, Extrapolation, Splines 
• Feb.21st: Lecture 3 : Solving ordinary differential equations 
• Feb.22nd: Lecture 4 : Numerical integration 
• Feb.23rd: Lecture 5 : Finding roots, iterative Newton-Raphson method 
• Feb.26th: Lecture 6 : Sort algorithms 
• Feb.27th: Lecture 7 : Systems of linear equations 
• Feb.28th: Lecture 8 : Statistical methods, data modeling 
• Feb.29th: Lecture 9 : Random numbers, Monte Carlo methods 
• Fev.30th: Lecture 10  : Summary and concluding remarks 

Exercise sheets:

Please submit programs and solutions to (at) mpia.de., (or hand them in) before the lecture in the next morning.

• Exercise 1 : Deadline Feb 20th -> Email: Dhruv Muley  
• Exercise 2 : Deadline Feb 21st -> Email: Michael Cecil  
• Exercise 3 : Deadline Feb 22nd -> Email: Michael Cecil  
• Exercise 4 : Deadline Feb 23rd -> Email: Michael Cecil  
• Exercise 5 : Deadline Feb 26th -> Email: Michael Cecil  
• Exercise 6 : Deadline Feb 27th -> Email: Dominik Ostertag  
• Exercise 7 : Deadline Feb 28th -> Email: Dominik Ostertag  
• Exercise 8 : Deadline Feb 29th -> Email: Dominik Ostertag Dateien: dice.dat, grades.dat, data1.dat, data2.dat 
• Exercise 9 : Deadline Feb. 30th Email: Dominik Ostertag  

Bibliography / Information:

• previous Lecture of Prof. Spurzem 
• Numerical Methods for STEM Undergraduates (NUM). Some of the lectures und exercises are based on this script. Please regard Copyright conditions. 
• Numerical Recipes (2nd/3rd Edition). Press et al., Cambridge University Press. Online version. Free chapters of an older version. 
• Data Reduction and Error Analysis for the Physical Sciences. Bevington and Robinson, WCB/McGraw-Hill 
• Mathematical Physics, Bruce R. Kusse and Erik A. Westwig; Wiley-VCH, 2005 

Credit Points:

3 Credit Points for successful participation of the exercises (60% of the possible points) and presentation of at least one solution. 

Contact:

Hubert Klahr