550.386 Scientific Computing: Differential Equations

Spring 2008

Instructor: Greg Eyink

Department: Applied Mathematics & Statistics

Email: eyink `at' ams.jhu.edu

Phone: (410) 516-7201

Office: Whitehead 202-D

Office Hours: MF 1:30-2:30pm, or by appointment

Teaching Assistant: Vince Lyzinski

Department: Applied Mathematics & Statistics

Email: lyzinski `at' ams.jhu.edu

Office: Whitehead 306B

Office Hours: TW, 1-2pm

Classroom: Shaffer 1

Watch this space for important announcements, course information, and supplemental materials.
A good summary by Steve Hollasch of the IEEE 754 Floating-Point Number Standard is available here .
Notes for the class that was cancelled due to winter weather conditions are here .
A clear discussion of Brent's method (a generally fast, safeguarded algorithm for root-finding) is here .
The paper of John P. Boyd on Kepler's equation can be obtained here , or here .
Two sample midterms, some associated files, and solution keys are posted here
THE TAKE-HOME MIDTERM IS POSTED HERE and the solutions here.
Here is a website of Leon van Dommelen plotting the stability domains of Adams-Bashforth,
Adams-Moulton, BDF, and other methods.
A sample takehome final exam is posted here . Also, last year's in-class final exam is
here and its solution key here .
THE SOLUTION TO THE FINAL EXAM IS POSTED HERE .

Title	URL
Cleve Moler, `Numerical Computing with MATLAB'	http://www.mathworks.com/moler/
Michael Heath, `Scientific Computing: An Introductory Survey'	http://www.cse.uiuc.edu/heath/scicomp/notes
L. F. Shampine & M. W. Reichelt, `The Matlab ODE Suite'	http://www.mathworks.com/helpdesk/ode_suite.pdf

Chaos and Fractals A nice webpage by a physics grad student at JHU on chaos and fractals in solutions of ODE's