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    • PHY1610 Scientific Computing for Physicists (Winter 2026)

      This course is aimed at reducing your struggle in getting started with computational projects, and make you a more efficient computational scientist. Topics include well-established best practices for developing software as it applies to scientific computations, common numerical techniques and packages, and aspects of high performance computing. While we will introduce the C++ language, in one language or another, students should already have some programming experience. Despite the title, this course is suitable for many physical scientists (chemists, astronomers, ...).

      This is a graduate course that can be taken for graduate credit by UofT PhD and MSc students. Students that wish to do so, should enrol using ACORN/ROSI.

      This is an in-person course.

      Teacher: Ramses van Zon
      Start date: 1 Jan. 2026
      End date: 1 May 2026
      Scientific Computing Credits: 28
      High Performance Computing Credits: 8

    • Lecture Location: SciNet Teaching Room, 11th floor on the MaRS West Tower,  661 University Ave., Suite 1140, Toronto, ON M5G 1M1

      Date and Time: Tue/Thu 11:00 am - 12:00 noon EST

      Office Hours: In-person Wed 11 AM - 12 PM EST

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