Schedule for CS249 Fall 2008 (built as we go!)

week ofTuesdayThursday
Sept 1
Week One		 no class
  • Unit One: The Lotka-Volterra Model
  • Topic Searches
    		•
    Sept 8
    Week Two
  • Unit One: The Lotka-Volterra Model
  • Topic Searches
    		•
  • Intro to Vpython
    		•
    Sept 15
    Week Three
  • Unit Two: The Lorenz Attractor
    		•
    Sept 22
    Week Four
  • Unit Three: Network Topologies and Parallel Programming
  • Parallel Programing with lam and MPI
    		•
    Sept 29
    Week Five    		 Unit Four: Newton's Basins
  • Newton's Method
  • The Complex Plane
  • PPM format
    • Oct 6
    Week Six
  • Newton's Basin's
  • The Farm Model of Parallelism
    • Oct 13
    Week Seven
  • Student Presentations - Computational Science Applications
  • Newton's Basins - Farm Model - MPI
    		•
    Oct 20
    Week Eight
  • Heat Diffusion
  • LaPlace's Equation
  • Central Difference Approximation
    		•  Midterm Break
    Oct 27
    Week Nine    		 Computational Science Workshop at Purdue
    student lab day
    Nov 3
    Week Ten
  • Newtonian Gravity
  • N-body problems
  • Uniform Circular Motion
  • Runge-Kutta for linear DEQs
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    Nov 10
    Week Eleven
  • Newtonian Gravity
  • Colliding Galaxies
  • Runge-Kutta for linear DEQs (Zelle's hack)
    • Nov 17
  • Flocking Behavior
  • Boids
    • Nov 24 Thanksgiving Break - no class
    Dec 1 T. B. A.
    Dec 8 T. B. A. study day
    Dec 15 Final exam - 8:00 A.M. Tue Dec 16