Math 518 - Fall 2024 - Alexiades
ASSIGNMENTS
Labs are due by midnight of Due Date
Assignment Due Date Description
Lab1 S Aug 23 Warmup programming and plotting
Lab2 W Aug 27 Newton solver
read § 1   about Applied/Industial Math
Lab3 S Sep 6 Roots, free software
Lab4 W Sep 10 Roots and Equilibria
HW 1 practice on Euler schemes
Lab5 S 13 Sep Euler scheme
Project1 R 9 Oct Project1: Single-size crystals
Lab6 R 25 Sep Euler scheme for systems
HW 2 solving ODEs analytically
HW 3 R 23 Oct similarity solution for diffusion
Lab 7 W 29 Oct Explicit scheme for Diffusion
Project2 R 20 Nov Crystals of 2 sizes
Lab 8 W 26 Nov Advection - Diffusion
Assignment due Description

Important Dates  
  • Sep  1:  Submit topic(s) for Team-Project   (by email with Subject: TeamProject topics)
  • Sep 15:   Submit a Team-Project title, short description
  • Oct  1:   Submit Team-Project proposal
  • Nov  1:   Submit a rough draft of Team-Project Report
  • Dec 2: (last class)   Submit the Team-Project Report
  • Dec 10: Team-Project presentations, during final exam period, 1-3pm

    Lecture Notes:
    1. roots-Newton.pdf         2. crystal-precip.pdf         3. ODEs.pdf         4. single-size.pdf  
    5. Euler-scheme.pdf         6. errors.pdf             7. N-sizes.pdf       8. Euler-systems.pdf  
    9. chemReactions.pdf         10. AI-ML-NN-DNN.html  
    11. PDEbk-ch00.pdf        12. classfication.pdf 
    13. FV-mesh.pdf           14. FV-discr-BCs.pdf         15. CFL-code.pdf       16. erfSol.pdf  
    17. advection.pdf             18. adv-diff.pdf            19. adv-consistency.pdf  
    20. 2D-scheme.pdf           21. 2D-CFL.pdf  
    22. solvable.pdf  
    23. sts.CNME96.pdf         23. sts.pdf  
    24. approx.p1-5.pdf         25. approx.p6-9.pdf  

    Handouts: 0. About roundoff
    Supplementary (enrichment) materials:
  • The Future of AI, Nature, 14 Nov.2025, videos of 6 AI leaders/experts opinions, profound, must watch!
  • Learning to Code Still Matters in the Age of AI IEEE Spectrum, Oct.2025 (...an optimistic view...)
  • What Exactly Are A.I. Companies Trying to Build? NYT, Sep.2025 local copy
  • Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work National Academies Report, Nov.2024
  • How close is AI to human-level intelligence? Nature News, Dec.2024
  • timings of 17 ODE solvers (talk slides on laser ablation)
  • FFT: The 60-Year Old Algorithm Underlying Today’s Tech IEEE Spectrum, Aug.2025
  • Solving ODEs by Heng Li, 2009
    Teams and their Projects - Fall 2025
  • Team A:  Brophy, Joyner, Oyedeji Examining Dynamics of Phosphorus in Lakes
  • Team B:  Hartvig, McMullan-Gunsolus, Ramirez Optimizing Rush Hour Traffic around ORNL
                  Calendar: Fall 2025 (Aug 18 - Dec 2)   (if not aligned, use Firefox or Opera or Edge browser)
      
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