Summer 2006

Professor C. D. Cantrell, UT-Dallas

Course Information

Where and when the class will meet

Where: ECSN 2.126

When: Monday and Wednesday from 3:00 to 4:50 PM, beginning May 15, 2006

Teaching Personnel

Office Hours: Saturday afternoons 1-3; other times by appointment.

Prof. Cantrell's office is located in EC 2.302.

Send email to Prof. Cantrell

(cantrell@utdallas.edu)

Telephone numbers:

• Voice: (972) 883-2868
• FAX: (972) 883-2813

Textbooks

Modern Mathematical Methods for Physicists and Engineers, by Prof. Cantrell. Published by Cambridge University Press (ISBN 0-521-59827-3) (Required). There is a UTD Web site for this book with a discussion area. Also, a corrected index is available.

Numerical Recipes (in C, FORTRAN or Pascal), by Press, Teukolsky, Vetterling and Flannery (Recommended).

Grading

Project Report: The course grade will be based primarily on a written report on a significant computational project. When possible, the topic of the project should be chosen from the field of the student's graduate research or employment. The project should use an appropriate subset of the methods taught in this course. For this reason, the report should emphasize the numerical and computational properties of the algorithm used for the project, and not the engineering or scientific results obtained with the aid of that algorithm. The primary purpose of doing homework in this course is to learn, not to accumulate points towards a grade. However, homework performance may be taken into account in borderline cases.

If you have trouble coming up with a suitable project topic, please consult Prof. Cantrell early in the semester. The books Projects in Scientific Computation and Topics in Advanced Scientific Computation, by Richard E. Crandall, have many projects that, suitably refined and/or limited, could be suitable for this course.

Homework Policy: Homework may be handed in via email, by FAX or on paper, but must reach Prof. Cantrell by the end of class on the day when the homework is due. He will post the solutions within a day or two after the class at which the homework is due.