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PH 407 Honors: Computational eScience Thinking

Syllabus
Spring 2010
© RHLandau, Oregon State University

 

Assigments due on ?.

Submit each by sending email to rubin science.oregonstate.edu with URL of your report.

Wk Days Reading Topics Due (midnight)
1 Introduction, History, Petascale
Languages, Software, Intelligent Assistants vs Immersive Environments
2     Computability, Solvability, Hard Problems  
      Algorithms, Analytic Solution, Complexity & Intractability  
3     Python programming  
       Thinking Logically  
4     Complexity, Artificial Intelligence  
      Trial & Error Searching, Solution of Equations  
5     Simulations  
      Symbolic Computing, Problem Solving Environments  
6 Programming, File types, Semantic Web
7     High Performance Hardware   
      Parallel Computing, Scalability, Clouds, Bootable Cluster CD, Robust  
8     Data Centric Views, Managing Massive Data, Shannon, Compression  
9     Visualizing Equations & Numbers, Graphs, Surface, Slices, Animations  
10 Abstractions, Object Orientation