Lab Exercises

Computer Lab exercise will emphasize and extend concepts presented in lecture.

The following links are to individual exercises, which are for you to work on during the latter part of each class.

Thanks to Carleton Detar for providing material used in many of these lab exercises.

exercises

  due date description

Wed, 8-Apr. Lab 20 Quantum computing simulation

Wed, 3-Apr. Lab 19 A final PDE with eigenvectors and a brief review of LateX

Wed, 1-Apr. Lab 18 PDEs: the wave equation + a 2-D BVP

Wed, 27-Mar. Lab 17 Intro to PDEs: diffusive, IVP

Mon, 25-Mar. Lab 16 ODE solvers

Wed, 20-Mar. Lab 15 Multiresolution + wavelets

Mon, 18-Mar. Lab 14 Optimization

Wed, 06-Mar. Lab 13 Root finding and optimization.

Mon, 04-Mar. Lab 12 ML and return to clustering.

Wed, 27-Feb. Lab 11 Classification and machine learning

Mon, 25-Feb. Lab 10 PCA

Wed, 19-Feb. [MIDTERM]

Mon, 17-Feb. [PRESIDENTS DAY]

Wed, 13-Feb. [REVIEW]

Mon, 11-Feb. Lab 09 FIsher information.

Wed, 06-Feb. [SNOW DAY!!]

Mon, 04-Feb. Lab 08 Hypothesis testing.

Wed, 30-Jan. Lab 07 Intro to MLE!

Mon, 28-Jan. Lab 06 SVD and data fitting, possibly intro to MLE

Wed, 23-Jan. Lab 05 MCMC and emcee, possibly intro to MLE

Wed, 16-Jan. Lab 04 Covariance, correlations and power spectra

Mon, 14-Jan. Lab 03 Python related to numerical integration and basic statistics.

Wed, 9-Jan. Lab 02 Intro to python

Mon, 7-Jan. Lab 01 Intro to Unix and the emacs editor.