/ISC2018

ETHZ 2018 ISC course

Primary LanguageJupyter Notebook

Introduction to Scientific Computation Course

This repo follows Fall2018 track for ETHZ and UZH students.

Lecture and seminar materials for each week are in ./week* folders.

General info

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Syllabus

  • week00 (19.09.2018) Introduction, Rules, Git
    • Lecture: Code execution lifecycle, compilation vs interpretation, Python, Environments, Git
    • Seminar: Git + python (deadline in 10 days)
  • week01 (26.09.2018) Complexity, Representation of numbers, Stability
    • Lecture: Git, Complexity, Fixed and floating point representations, Vector norms, Stability issues
    • Seminar: numpy, python, linalg, loops, matplotlib (mini)
  • week02 (03.10.2018) Linear systems of equations, SVD, FFT
    • Lecture: Linear systems of equations, SVD, FFT
    • Seminar: comparison of linear systems solvers, svd and applications, fft and applications
  • week03 (10.10.2018) Fourier transform
    • Lecture: Fast Fourier transform
    • Seminar: solving seminar 2 due to high workload
  • week04 (17.10.2018) Learning from data
    • Lecture: Basic definitions, perceptron
    • Seminar: Features, Perceptron, pandas, plots

Contributors & course staff

Course materials and teaching performed by (in random order)

The course is heavily based on the lectures and seminars attended by Mikhail Usvyatsov at different time. Materials is a compilation of resources for courses of:

  • Ivan Oseledets, Numerical Linear Algebra
  • Eugene Zuev, Compilers Construction
  • David Vernon, Algorithms and Data Structures
  • Ivan Tsibulin, Numerical methods
  • Oleg Ponomarev, Introduction to Python
  • Konstantin Vorontsov, Mathematic methods of learning by precedents