CS357 Calendar

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Examlet 5 (April 26, 2017 - April 30, 2017)

As you may have seen in our class policies, our "examlets" will take place in a computer-based testing facility ("CBTF") in Grainger Library.

You must schedule your test appointment with the Computer-Based Testing Facility at this link. This examlet is now available for scheduling.

Find out more about the testing facility, such as:

  • where it is
  • when to show up
  • what to bring (and not to bring)

The exam will be 110 minutes in length, and it will cover the material up to and including the lecture of April 20 and Quiz 27.

Examlet 5 Study Guide

Lecture Day 23 (April 11, 2017)
Examlet 4 (April 5, 2017 - April 10, 2017)

As you may have seen in our class policies, our "examlets" will take place in a computer-based testing facility ("CBTF") in Grainger Library.

You must schedule your test appointment with the Computer-Based Testing Facility at this link. This examlet is now available for scheduling.

Find out more about the testing facility, such as:

  • where it is
  • when to show up
  • what to bring (and not to bring)

The exam will be 110 minutes in length, and it will cover the material up to and including the lecture of March 30 and Quiz 21.

Examlet 4 Study Guide

Examlet 3 (March 14, 2017 - March 17, 2017)

As you may have seen in our class policies, our "examlets" will take place in a computer-based testing facility ("CBTF") in Grainger Library.

You must schedule your test appointment with the Computer-Based Testing Facility at this link. This examlet is now available for scheduling.

Find out more about the testing facility, such as:

  • where it is
  • when to show up
  • what to bring (and not to bring)

The exam will be 110 minutes in length, and it will cover the material up to and including the lecture of March 9 and Quiz 17.

Examlet 3 Study Guide

Examlet 2 (Feb. 22, 2017 - Feb. 26, 2017)

As you may have seen in our class policies, our "examlets" will take place in a computer-based testing facility ("CBTF") in Grainger Library.

You must schedule your test appointment with the Computer-Based Testing Facility at this link. This examlet is now available for scheduling.

Find out more about the testing facility, such as:

  • where it is
  • when to show up
  • what to bring (and not to bring)

The exam will be 110 minutes in length, and it will cover the material up to and including the lecture of February 16 and Quiz 11.

Examlet 2 Study Guide

Lecture Day 9 (Feb. 14, 2017)

Quiz: Monte Carlo II (Quiz 9)

  • Finish Monte Carlo (integration and convergence)
  • Pseudorandom number generation
  • Absolute and relative error
  • Condition numbers

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Lecture Day 8 (Feb. 9, 2017)

Quiz: Monte Carlo (Quiz 8)

  • Integration by Monte Carlo
  • (Section M) Expected values by sampling a different distribution

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Lecture Day 7 (Feb. 7, 2017)

Quiz: Interpolation II (Quiz 7)

  • Monte Carlo methods
  • Expected values by sampling a different distribution
  • (Section N) proof of Central Limit Theorem

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Lecture Day 6 (Feb. 2, 2017)

Quiz: Interpolation (Quiz 6)

  • Intro to Interpolation
  • Intuition for error in Interpolation
  • Monte Carlo basics
  • (Section N) Expected values by sampling a different distribution

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Examlet 1 (Feb. 1, 2017 - Feb. 4, 2017)

As you may have seen in our class policies, our "examlets" will take place in a computer-based testing facility ("CBTF") in Grainger Library.

You must schedule your test appointment with the Computer-Based Testing Facility at this link. This examlet is now available for scheduling.

Find out more about the testing facility, such as:

  • where it is
  • when to show up
  • what to bring (and not to bring)

The exam will be 110 minutes in length, and it will cover the material of the first four lectures.

Examlet 1 Study Guide

Lecture Day 5 (Jan. 31, 2017)

Quiz: Error in Taylor series approximation (Quiz 5)

  • (Section M) Taylor Remainder Theorem
  • (Section M) Using polynomial models: Computing $\pi$ using Taylor
  • Intro to Interpolation
  • Truncation error in Interpolation

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Lecture Day 4 (Jan. 26, 2017)

Quiz: Taylor Series and Python (Quiz 4)

  • Taylor series: error
  • Computational experiments on Taylor truncation error
  • Taylor truncation in Big-O
  • (Section N) Taylor Remainder Theorem
  • (Section N) Using polynomial models: Computing $\pi$ using Taylor

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Lecture Day 3 (Jan. 24, 2017)

Quiz: Big O and Python (Quiz 3)

  • More Numpy
  • Taylor series: Derivation
  • Taylor series: Shifting the center
  • Using sympy to derive Taylor series
  • Computational experiments with Taylor series

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Lecture Day 2 (Jan. 19, 2017)

Quiz: Policies

  • Big-O Notation
  • Python
  • Numpy
  • Intro: Building Models with Polynomials

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Lecture Day 1 (Jan. 17, 2017)

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