CSC2302H -- Numerical Solution of Initial Value Problems for Ordinary Differential Equations

Current announcements

• There will be no office hours on Tuesday, April 22. Instead I will be available on Wednesday Morning April 23, 9-12:00.
• Assignment Number three is now posted. It is due on April 1.
• Information on the course project is now posted. You should be thinking about a suitable topic over the next few weeks and have the topic approved by early March. Feel free to send email or drop by to dicuss your choice.
• Assignment Number two is now posted. It is due on March 4.
• Assignment Number one is now posted. It is due on February 4.

General Information

• The general information handout for the course is available here .
• Tentative lecture schedule as of December 2013 (before classes start).
• The expected background and prerequisites for the course.
• Lecture notes will be made available and updated as much as possible as the course progresses. Please report any errors or typos.

Textbooks

• The textbook for the course is: Computer methods for Ordinary Differential Equations
  and Differential-Algebraic Equations,
  by U. M. Ascher and L. R. Petzold; SIAM, 1998.
• Check the list of other related references (html file).

Policies

• on plagiarism (html file)
• on lateness (html file)

Lectures per month

Assignments and Project

• Assignment No. 1
• Assignment No. 2
• The Project: You should be deciding in the next few weeks on the topic for your course project. Possible projects and guidelines can be found from this link. Any required source code and documentation can be obtained from the links associated with the assignments, or by emailing me.
• Assignment No. 3 using either the method RADAU or ode15s from MatLab.

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