2015/16, University of Victoria

Time: Winter session, 2nd term, TWF 12:30 - 13:20pm

Room: MacLaurin Building D016

Instructors:

• Ryan Budney (Math & Stats)
  • bitbucket repo: Ryan Budney (ryan_budney)
  • Tuesday and Wednesday 2:00pm - 3:00pm. Office: SSM A516
• Falk Herwig (Physics & Astronomy)
  • Tuesday 1:30pm - 2:30pm. Office: Elliott 214
  • bitbucket repo: Falk Herwig (fherwig)

TAs:

• Christian Ritter
  • critter[at]uvic.ca
  • github/bitbucket: critter1
  • Monday 10:00am - 11:00am. Office: Elliott 403
• Shayla Redlin
  • shaylaredlin at gmail dot com
  • github/bitbucket: shaylaredlin

Math & Stats Assistance Centre: The assistance centre does not yet officially offer help for this course, but if you need a bit of extra help outside of classes and the tutorials, Shayla works in the assistance centre during the following times:

• Monday from 3:30 to 5:30 - Room 129 in the library
• Thursday from 5:30 to 7:30 - Room 129 in the library

Topics of this course:

• tools and utilities for this course, such as
  • the PhysMa Linux virtual machine, installing software packages
  • Linux command line
• introduction to python notebooks and the Python programming language, plotting data and functions with python
• symbolic computing with Sympy
• numerical analysis
  • differentiating
  • integrating
  • differential equations
• Newton-Raphson method
• linear algebra and applications
• data aquisition, analysis and visualization
• statistical methods, such as
  • least-square fitting and higher-order moments
  • Monte-Carlo methods and related techniques
• basic time series analysis
• how can computational math & physics fail
• emphasis on programming for the purpose of exploring mathematical constructions and data
• examples and applications from physics

Grades:

• 2 individual assignments (15%)
• 2 group assignments (2-3 students, 10%)
• midterm exam (25%)
• final exam (50%)