MATH 364: Introduction to Scientific Computing

This course is intended to help students develop a basic competence in scientific computing. Students will be given a high level introduction to computing in MATLAB and LATEX as well as the creation, access and manipulation of databases. A broad collection of basic numerical techniques will be presented, including approximation methods, iterative methods for root finding, linear algebra applications solving matrix-vector problems and linear systems. The course is taught online and we use Sakai http://www.sakaiproject.org/ and Elluminate Live for virtual lectures, e-whiteboard and office hours. Each student will have an account to access Sakai to drop off homework, see grades and get copies of the lecture notes among other features. Every Saturday the student will access Elluminate for the live lecture, interact with the professor and the other students in the class.