Spring 2016

MA2501 Numerical Methods

Welcome to all of you who have signed up for this course.

Course lecturer: Asif Mushtaq

Course News

Suggested Exam Solution 2016

Solution

(09.06.2016) Very important: Respond me as quickly as possible. See the following list of candidates. Those who are marked with red check carefully either the provided information is correct.

Permitted aids for exam:

  • The textbook: Cheney & Kincaid, Numerical Mathematics and Computing, 6. or 7. edition
  • The list of known errors
  • Rottmann, Mathematical formulae
  • Photocopies of Ch 1 and Ch 4 of the textbook: An introduction to Numerical Analysis by Suli and Mayers (Provided on webpage).
  • No handwritten material is allowed.

The rules for modifying the textbook are:

  • You are not allowed to write anything other than your name anywhere in the book
  • You may mark pages with paper marks (lapper) without annotation or by dog-earings (eselører)
  • You may mark text in the book by underlining/highlighting it (understreking/markering)

Project result has been announced and replied to same email addresses from where the projects were sent. Those who got the results has the responsibility to inform the other mates.

Good Luck with your Exams

New:

Q & A Session:

Day & time & Room Name
Tuesday 31.05.2016 (10:15 to 12:00) 656 Asif Mushtaq
Wednesday 01.06.2016 (11:15 to 12:00) 656 Asif Mushtaq

Office hours:

Day & time & Room Name
Monday 09.05.2016 (14:15 to 15:00) 1340 Eirik Hoel Høiseth
Wednesday 18.05.2016 (14:15 to 15:00) 1340 Eirik Hoel Høiseth
Monday 23.04.2016 (14:15 to 16:00)1340 Eirik Hoel Høiseth

25.04.16 Special hours

Day & time & Room Theme
Wednesday 11.04.2016 (12:00 to 14:00)F6 We will mainly discuss about the leftover of the course
Wednesday 11.04.2016 (14:15 to 16:00)F6 Review of the course and Q&A session

21.04.16: Final reference groups meeting of the course will be held in room 734 at 10:15. Prof. Harald will also attend the meeting.
21.04.16: Exercise 11 with solution is available on Exercise page. 10.04.16: Office hours for project and exercises discussion

Day& time Room #
Monday 11.04.2016 (15:00 to 16:00) 656
Tuesday 12.04.2016 (14:00 to 15:00) 634
Wednesday 13.04.2016 (14:00 to 16:00) F6
Friday 15.04.2016 (12:00 to 13:00) 656

08.04.16: Exercise 10 with solution is available on Exercise page.

30.03.16: Exercise 9 with solution is available on Exercise page.

17.03.16: Next class will be after Easter holidays on 30th March, 2016.
Exercise 8 with solution is available on Exercise page.

16.03.16: Project description is available under the Project webpage. Deadline is settled to April 17, 2016. An updated groups list is also available.

10.03.16: Exercise 7 with solution is available on Exercise page.

08.03.16: Project page is functional now. You can find the group list on Project page. Those who did not find their names in the provided list, contact me as soon as possible.

02.03.16: Exercise 6 with solution is available on Exercise page.

01.03.16: After some corrections updated assignment 5 with solution is available now.

26.02.16: Second reference group meeting will be held on Monday 7th March, 2016. Agenda of this meeting is to discuss the progress of course and in particular discussion about the upcoming project. All are advised to record your feedback, suggestions or comments to your reference group members for discussion, if any.

25.02.16: Exercise set 5 is available with solution set.

17.02.16: No exercise is uploaded this week, so there will be no exercise session on week 8. Everyone is encouraged to work on already given 5 exercises and try to implement examples from your text-book by using provided MATLAB codes.

10.02.16: Those who did not provide the information on distributed sheet are advised to provide the information by the end of week 7. These information are very important in order to make groups.
Exercise 4 with solution is available under Exercises page. Our next exercise session will be on 17.02.2016 in F6 from 14:15 to 16:00.

03.02.16: Exercise 3 with solution is available under Exercises page. Our next exercise session will be on 10.02.2016 in F6 from 14:15 to 16:00.

1st February, 2016 is the deadline for the registration of exam.

27.01.16: Exercise 2 with solution is available under Exercises page. Our next exercise session will be on 03.02.2016 in F6 from 14:15 to 16:00.

25.01.16: First reference group meeting will be on Tuesday 26, 2016 at 10:00 am in meeting room 738 sentralbygge II. Class students may give feedback, suggestions or comments to the member of the reference group. Prof. Harald Krogstad will also attend the meeting.

20.01.16: Exercise 1 with solution is available under Exercises page. Our next exercise session will be on 27.01.2016 in F6. MATLAB code is also available, it would be nice if you run through all available code before coming to next exercise session.

13.01.16: Starting exercise with solution is available under the Exercise page section. Three Matlab code files are also available for your exercise. Introduction to MATLAB page is also updated.

04.01.16: The first introductory lecture will be on Monday January 11, 2016 at 14:15 in EL4. Full timetable can be found here.

2016-06-20, Asif Mushtaq