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Course of Computational Methods for Astronomy. Universidad de Antioquia

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Computational Methods for Astronomy

by: Sebastian Bustamante 2014/2015

This course is intended for students of Astronomy and Physics at the Universidad de Antioquia and will cover some numerical methods commonly used in science and specially in astronomy. These topics will be addressed from a formal context but also keeping a practical and computational approach, illustrating many useful applications in problems of physics and astronomy.

The practical component will be almost entirely developed in Python and slightly less in C (when computational performance is required). However students with knowledge in other programming languages (except privative languages like MatLab, Mathematica) are also aimed to use them.

In this repository it can be found all the related material of the course, including the detailed program, notes and presentations, examples (ipython notebooks) and homeworks. (This repository may be subject to changes continuously as the course advances).

SYLLABUS: detailed description of the program of the course, including a brief motivation and presentation, topics to be covered, evaluation and bibliography.

Contents

1. Python (1 week)

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  • Activity 01: Solve the problems in the section Exercises.

2. Mathematical Preliminaries (1 week)

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3. One Variable Equations (2 weeks)

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4. Interpolation Techniques (2 weeks)

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5. Numerical Calculus (2 weeks)

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6. Linear Algebra (2 weeks)

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7. Differential Equations (2 weeks)

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8. Statistics (1 week)

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