Math 391R

Introduction

This seminar covers various computation techniques for students in the mathematical sciences.

Requirements

Each student is required to attend all sessions of the seminar (some absences may be excused) and contribute to at least one session by presenting a topic and contributing resources on that topic for the topics website.

Schedule

January13 Course Overview and Review
Jeremy West
20 Programming in C
Jonathan Baker
27 Accessing databases from Python and MATLAB
Spencer Patty and Taylor Redd
February3 Programming in Fortran
Todd Wight
10 Database normalization and stored procedures
Jeff Humpherys
24 Database normalization and stored procedures
Jeff Humpherys
March3 Libraries and cross-source programming
McKay Heasley
10 Introduction to GSL and GMP
Sarah McBride and Stasha Bown
17 Introduction to threading and supercomputing
Mary Li and Tina Benhaim
24 Introduction to OpenMP
The Lutz Brothers
April31 Introduction to MPI
Ian Fillmore
7 BLAS and LAPACK
Blake Barker and Bryant Angelos
14 PHP, XHTML, and CSS
Ryan McClurkin