Course: PHY1610 Scientific Computing for Physicists (Winter 2023)

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- PHY1610 Scientific Computing for Physicists (Winter 2023)
  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.
  Teacher: Ramses van Zon
  Start date: 10 Jan 2023
  End date: 30 Apr 2023
  Scientific Computing Credits: 28
  High Performance Computing Credits: 8
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- 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 2-3 PM EST; Virtual Fri 12-1 PM EST
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  Slides for lectures 1-4 File
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  Slides for lecture 5 on Modular Programming File
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  Slides for lecture 6 on Version Control with git File
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  Lecture 7: Working with Libraries File
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  Lecture 8: Multidimensional Arrays in C++, rarray library, OOP basics File
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  Lecture 9: Testing and debugging File
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  Lecture 10: Representing numbers File
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  Lecture 11: Ordinary Differential Equations File
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  Lecture 12: File I/O and NetCDF
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  Lecture 13: Numerically Solving Partial Differential Equations File
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  Lecture 14: Basic linear algebra packages File
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  Lecture 15: Randomness File
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  Lecture 16: Fast Fourier Transformations File
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  Lecture 17: Measuring Performance File
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  Lecture 18: Intro to Parallel Computing File
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  Assignment 1: C++
  
  Opened: Thursday, 12 January 2023, 12:00 AM
  
  Due: Thursday, 19 January 2023, 11:59 PM
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  Assignment 2: Code refactoring
  
  Opened: Thursday, 19 January 2023, 12:00 AM
  
  Due: Thursday, 26 January 2023, 11:59 PM
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  Assignment 3: Modularize with make and git
  
  Opened: Friday, 27 January 2023, 12:00 AM
  
  Due: Friday, 3 February 2023, 11:59 PM
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  Assignment 4: Two dimensional wave
  
  Opened: Friday, 10 February 2023, 12:00 AM
  
  Due: Friday, 17 February 2023, 11:59 PM
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  Assignment 5: Solve ODE and store in NetCDF file
  
  Opened: Monday, 20 February 2023, 12:00 AM
  
  Due: Sunday, 5 March 2023, 11:59 PM
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  Assignment 6: Using BLAS for the 1d wave
  
  Opened: Wednesday, 8 March 2023, 12:00 AM
  
  Due: Wednesday, 15 March 2023, 11:59 PM
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  Assignment 7: Gravitational wave detection using FFT
  
  Opened: Thursday, 16 March 2023, 12:00 AM
  
  Due: Thursday, 23 March 2023, 11:59 PM
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