Scientific Computing Lab

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Scientific Computing Lab
Scientific Computing in Computer Science
Institut für Informatik

• Organization

Dr. Miriam Mehl
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Tasks

• feeling for Scientific Computing
• model
• numbers
• pictures

• quality?
• accuracy
• costs
• robustness

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Contents

• ordinary differential equations
• initial value problems
• partial differential equations
• boundary value problems
• boundaryintitial value problems

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Prerequisites

• login and password
• operating system Linux
• programming language MATLAB
• helpful knowledge
• differential equations
• linear algebra

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Organization

• 6 worksheets
• two weeks working time
• implementation
• tests
• questions

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Organization

• lecture every two weeks
• new subjects
• results
• office hours every two weeks

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What Determines the Grading?

• functionality of programs
• answers to questions during presentation
• no final written or oral exam

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How to Get the Worksheets?

• every two weeks
• during the lecture
• from our webpagehttp//www5.in.tum.de/lehre/prakt
  ika/scicomp/ws07/

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How to Submit the Results?

• two weeks time per worksheet
• submission per email (Monday)
• personal presentation (Tuesday afternoon)
• be prepared for questions

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Rules

• no example solutions!
• no lecture notes!
• write your own (in your own language)!
• delayed submission
• requires a medical certificate

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Rules

• office hours Wed 1230-1400
• in weeks without lecture, room 02.05.041
• for further questions fix a date per emailDr.
  Miriam Mehl mehl_at_in.tum.de Markus Brenk
  brenk_at_in.tum.de Tobias Neckel
  neckel_at_in.tum.de