CS 624 Syllabus (Spring 2006)

Jan 23 - Jan 27 Finite difference methods for IVP's
Jan 30 - Feb 3 Multistep methods, order and stability
Feb 6 - Feb 10 Stability regions & stiff problems
Feb 13 - Feb 17 Hamiltonian problems & dynamical systems
Feb 20 - Feb 24 Differential algebraic equations (prelim 1 this week)
Feb 27 - Mar 3 The diffusion equation & the wave equation
Mar 6 - Mar 10 Finite difference methods for PDE's
Mar 13 - Mar 17 Fourier analysis
Mar 20 - Mar 24 Spring break
Mar 27 - Mar 31 Von Neumann stability & CFL stability (prelim 2 this week)
Apr 3 - Apr 7 Hyperbolic conservation laws & shock waves
Apr 10 - Apr 14 L1 contraction and nonlinear stability
Apr 17 - Apr 21 Boundary value problems & the finite element method
Apr 24 - Apr 28 Isoparametric elements & mesh generation
May 1 - May 5 Multigrid
Stephen A. Vavasis, Computer Science Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, vavasis@cs.cornell.edu
handed out 1/23/06