Calculating with sets: Interval methods in Julia

Workshop at JuliaCon 2020

These are materials for the live, online workshop "Calculating with sets: Interval methods in Julia " at JuliaCon 2020, which will take place on Monday 27 July, 2020 at 2pm UTC.

For access, please register for a free ticket at https://juliacon.org/2020

Setup

Install the latest release (1.4.2) of Julia from here

Run Julia. At the Julia prompt, add the packages we will need as follows (copy and paste):

  julia> using Pkg

  julia> Pkg.add("IJulia")
  julia> Pkg.add("Plots")
  julia> Pkg.add("Interact")
  julia> Pkg.add("IntervalArithmetic")
  julia> Pkg.add("IntervalRootFinding")
  julia> Pkg.add("IntervalConstraintProgramming")
  julia> Pkg.add("IntervalOptimisation")

Once those packages have finished installing (which will install a collection of other packages that these depend on), type
```
  julia> using IJulia
  julia> notebook()
```
This should launch the Jupyter notebook in your browser; this is a web application that provides a computational notegbook interface.
Copy the notebook files (ending in .ipynb) from this repository to your computer by git clone-ing the repository or downloading the Zip file (hit the green button which says Code).
Navigate inside the file browser in the Jupyter notebook to the place on your computer where the files you just downloaded are. Load notebook number 1!

Installation problems

If you have installation problems you can also view the notebooks online at nbviewer and use e.g. the online service repl.it to write Julia code.
If you are on the live call, you can try to describe your problem and ask for help via the chat; hopefully other attendees will be able to assist.

License

Code in this repository is licensed under the MIT license, and text under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license. Copyright David P. Sanders 2020

Author

David P. Sanders, Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (National University of Mexico, UNAM) & Department of Mathematics, MIT.

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