33456 – Advanced Computational Physics
This course extends the study of the topics of 33-241 emphasizing practical numerical, sym-bolic and data-driven computational techniques as applied to a selection of currently active research areas. It is taught by faculty and staff actively engaged in a variety of areas of com-putational science. Numerical methods may include SVD decomposition, chi-squared mini-mization, and Fast Fourier Transforms and Monte Carlo simulation of experiments. Applica-tions may include data analysis, eigenvalue problems and others depending on the research activities of the instructors. The students will be expected to become proficient in a specif-ic programming language and to gain the ability to move to other languages and algorithms as their future computationally intensive efforts may require.