ASTRO 497D: Numerical Methods of Astrophysics

Text: "Numerical Recipes" by Press et al.

This is a hands-on course to learn methods for numerically solving problems that arise in astrophysics. Although programming is not a requirement nor is teaching programming the ultimate goal; nevertheless it is hoped that techniques for writing and debugging programs will be a useful side effect.

Outline

1. Overview, Programming languages, and programming style.

2. The Unix development environment

3. Interpolation and extrapolation

4. Integration

5. Ordinary Differential Equations

6. Linear Algebra

7. Root Finding

8. Optimization

9. Partial Differential Equations

10. Monte-Carlo methods

11. Data structures and algorithms

12. Parallel techniques

Evaluation

5 programming assignments, each worth 20% of the grade.

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