26097 - CALCOLO NUMERICO (NUMERICAL CALCULUS)

Academic Year 2007/2008

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LS) in Bioinformatics (cod. 0443)

Learning outcomes

The knowledge of the basic instruments of the Numerical Computation and of their use in a computational environment.

Course contents

Floating point numbers, direct methods for the solution of linear systems, least squares data approximation, zeros of nonlinear functions, one step methods for the solution of initial values problems.

Guided exercises in Matlab

Readings/Bibliography

C. Moler, Numerical Computing with Matlab, Siam. Available from the site:

http://www.mathworks.com/moler

Slides of the teacher

Teaching methods

theoretical lessons and guided exercises in the Laboratory

Assessment methods

Oral examination

Links to further information

http://www.dm.unibo.it/~piccolom/CNbioinf/CNbioinf.html

Office hours

See the website of Elena Loli Piccolomini