CSC260F Introduction to Scientific, Symbolic and Graphical Computation

Fall 2008

• 15-12-2008: Assignment 4 is marked and available for pickup in my office 3-4 p.m. today, 15-12-2008.
• 3-12-2008: Office hours Friday 12 Dec, 1:30-2:30 p.m., and Monday 15 Dec, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
• 1-12-2008: All typed tutorials are now available. See further in the files section.
• 1-12-2008: For the students who run maple on cdf: If you try to run maple on redwolf, and you find that the licence does not work, please login to greywolf instead, and run maple there.
• 25-11-2008: Extra office hours, Mon 1 Dec 4-5 p.m. and Tue 2 Dec 4:30-5:30 p.m., in BA 4226.
• 19-11-2008: File for assignment 4: bisection.mp , newton.mp , script3nl.mp , exnonlin.mp , int_midpoint2.mp , int_trapezoid2.mp , int_simpson2.mp , script6quad.mp
• 16-11-2008: Extra office hours, Mon 16 Nov 4:30-5:30 and Tue 17 Nov 4:30-5:30, in BA 4226. I will also try to return assignment 2 at that time.
• 6-11-2008: Assignment 3 is due Wednesday, November 19 (not Tuesday as it was misprinted in the assigment sheet)
• 5-11-2008: Files for assignment 3: odemain.m, odefun.m, expoly.m, expp.m.
• 29-10-2008: Extra office hours, Mon 3 Nov 2008, 4:00 to 5:00.
• 20-10-2008: Extra office hours, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 4:30 to 5:30.
• 16-10-2008: The midterm exam is Wed 22 Oct, 6:10 p.m. in the usual classroom (BA1230). The material corresponding to the midterm exam consists of the first 5 chapters of the notes (weeks 1-5). It does not include the 6th chapter (differential equations). The exam will be about 1 hour long; then we will take a break, and continue with lecture.
• 8-10-2008: For assignment 2: q4.m, ellipse1.m
• 8-10-2008: Third and fourth year students may be interested in the Bloomberg fellowships
• 1-10-2008: Extra office hours, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 4:30 to 5:30.
  (I was wrong to say that this Monday is a holiday. Thanksgiving is the Monday after. But the extra office hours still hold.)
• 24-9-2008: The names of the servers that run maple (and xmaple) are redwolf.cdf.toronto.edu (address 128.100.31.203) and greywolf.cdf.toronto.edu (address 128.100.31.198). A way to login to them is to login to one of the computers in the second or third floor of Bahen, open a "terminal" (gnome-terminal or xterm) and type the command
  % ssh -X redwolf.cdf.toronto.edu -l yourloginname -f xterm
  % ssh -X greywolf.cdf.toronto.edu -l yourloginname -f xterm
  This will open a new window on redwolf or greywolf, where you can type the command maple or xmaple, as the guide says.
• 17-9-2008: For assignment 1: scriptcos.mp
• 17-9-2008: You may be interested in the following announcement.
• 3-9-2008: The first tutorial will be Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 6-7 p.m.

Links to certain documents

• A brief introduction to MATLAB, Christina C. Christara and Winky Wai
• Tutorial on MATLAB, Christina C. Christara
• A brief introduction to MAPLE, Christina C. Christara
• Tutorial on MAPLE, Christina C. Christara

Material covered or to be covered in the course
For each lecture, I mention the page numbers of slides covered, as well as related material from the textbook. Page numbers (pgs) refer to slides, while chapters and sections to the textbook. (As mentioned in class, you don't need to buy the text, but it is useful to consult it occasionally.) All lectures are 2 hours, except otherwise stated.

10-9-08: (2 hours), handouts: Outline of course, Week 1, Week 2 slides
pgs 1-23 (W1), Week1 slides: related material from text chapter 0
pgs 25-27 (W2), Week2 slides: sections 5.1, 5.1.1(1-2), 5.1.2(1-2)
17-9-08: tutorial on Maple
17-9-08: (2 hours), handouts: assignment 1, Week 3 slides
pgs 27-48 (W2), Week2 slides: sections 5.1, 5.1.1(1-2), 5.1.2(1-2)
24-9-08: tutorial on representation of numbers, computer arithmetic, catastrophic cancellation
24-9-08: (2 hours), handouts: Week 4 slides
pgs 49-62 (W3), Week3 slides: sections 5.2, 5.2.1
pgs 65-71 (W4), Week4 slides: sections 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.3
1-10-08: tutorial on Taylor series approximation
1-10-08: (2 hours), handouts: Week 5 slides
8-10-08: tutorial on parametric representations of curves and surfaces, rendering
8-10-08: (2 hours), handouts: Week 6 slides, assignment 2
pgs 92-96 (W5), Week5 slides: sections 1.5, 1.5.1(1-2)
pgs 97-101 (W6), Week6 slides: some related material section 1.5.1.1
15-10-08: tutorial on assignment 1
15-10-08: (2 hours), handouts: Week 7 slides
pgs 102-108 (W6), Week6 slides: some related material section 1.5.1.1
pgs 109-117 (W7)
Week7 slides: sections 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.4.1, some of 2.4.2, 3.1, some of 3.3
22-10-08: midterm
22-10-08: (2 hours)
pgs 117-131 (W7)
Week7 slides: sections 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.4.1, some of 2.4.2, 3.1, some of 3.3
29-10-08: tutorial on MATLAB
29-10-08: (2 hours), handouts: Week 8 slides
pgs 133-146 (W8), Week8 slides: sections 6.1, 6.3, 6.3.1, 6.3.2, 6.3.3, 6.3.4
5-11-08: tutorial on ODEs and MATLAB
5-11-08: (2 hours), handouts: Week 9 slides, assignment 3
page 147-152 (W8), 153-164 (W9)
Week9 slides: sections 4.1, 4.2, 4.2.1, 4.2.2(1-2, some of 3), 4.2.3, 4.3
12-11-08: tutorial on interpolation
12-11-08: (2 hours), handouts: Week 10 slides, Week 11 slides
pgs 165-168 (W9), pgs 169-183 (W10), Week10 slides: section 5.2.2
19-11-08: tutorial on numerical methods for nonlinear equations
19-11-08: (2 hours), handouts: assignment 4, Week 12 slides
course evaluations
pgs 185-193 (W11), Week11 slides: relevant material in section 5.3 and some in 3.4.1
26-11-08: tutorial on quadrature (numerical integration)
26-11-08: (2 hours)
pgs 197-214 (W12)
Week12 slides: sections 3.1.3, 3.4, 3.4.1, 3.5, 3.5.1, 3.5.2, 3.5.3
               some relevant material in 5.4[1-4], 5.5
3-12-08: (2+ hours)
assignment 3 discussion
summary, pgs 217-231
assignment 4 discussion

Files

Access to the following files requires that you use your CDF username and the last 5 digits of your student id.
Outline of course
Contents of course
Week1
Week2
assignment 1
Week3
Week4
Week5
Week6
assignment 2
Week7
Week8
Week9
assignment 3
Week10
Week11
Week12
assignment 4
Summary
Tutorial 1 -- Maple -- see above
Tutorial 2 -- Computer Arithmetic
Tutorial 3 -- Taylor polynomials
Tutorial 4 -- Representations of curves and surfaces, Rendering -- not typed
Tutorial 5 -- Matlab -- see above
Tutorial 6 -- Using MATLAB to solve ODEs
Tutorial 7 -- Interpolation
Tutorial 8 -- Nonlinear equation solvers (check the last page of this tutorial)
Tutorial 9 -- Quadrature

Usernames of accounts on the CDF system

Access to the CDF system requires that you use your CDF username and your CDF password. The username, followed by the (real) name of each student (in abbreviated form) is shown. The initial CDF password is the student id. You will be prompted to change it. (Note that this change does not apply to the password to access the above files. The password for the above files remains the last 5 digits of your student id.)

Username	Name
c8yujian	YuJH
c7dasilv	DaSi
c8fanjin	FanJ
c7letang	Let
c8kimand	KimAYS
c8wangwf	WangW
c8sincla	Sinc
c8kimjoo	KimJH
c8moqiux	MoQX
c7christ	Chri
c8yujing	YuJT
c8tianyu	Tian
c8shahin	Shah
c8okawah	Okaw
c7flemin	Flem
c7shiliu	ShiLQ
c8kimdoo	KimDY
c8bercas	Berc