Numerical Analysis II

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General Information

           
Lecturer: Prof. Habib Ammari   Coordinator: Konstantinos Alexopoulos  
           
First lecture: Mon. 20.02.2023   First Exercise Class: Thu. 02.03.2023  

Teaching Arrangements

The course will be held remotely in person in HG G 3.

Exercise classes will be done mainly in person. Your tutor will contact you with details. We strongly encourage you to take part in these classes, as they will be the most effective way to have any questions answered.

Assignments will be published each week. You should submit all your solutions using the SAM Upload Tool, including scans or photos of any handwritten solutions. Students are strongly enocuraged to complete the assignments, particularly since the Python programming skills they develop will form a large part of the final exam.

As last year, bonus points can be earnt by completing the "Mid-term summary assignment" and "End-term summary assignment". These replace the mid-tem and end-term tests of previous years. See below for details.

Lecture Notes

Here, you can find the lecture notes:

Lecture Notes

Here are the slides used in the lectures:

Introduction

Lecture 1

Lecture 2

Lecture 3

Lecture 4

Lecture 5

Lecture 6

Assignments

There will be weekly homework assignments available for download from the course web page each Wednesday afternoon. Homework will include theoretical problems and programming problems, which are to be prepared using Python 3 (available at the student computer pools at ETH).

All solutions (both codes and scans or photos of written solutions) should be submitted using the SAM Upload Tool. Since we are not using a server for permanent storage, everything on the server might disappear after several weeks so please don't rely on it for storing files. Instructions on how to use the upload tool can be found in the User Guide.

The deadline for the subimssion of the assignments is at the beginning of the tutorial session of each group the week after the assignment has been given out, i.e. one week later.

Programming problems

Here is a Python cheat sheet, it contains instructions on how to install Python 3 and gives some useful commands. We also recommend these scipy lecture notes and Python for Scientists by John Stewart (available as a pdf on the ETH network) as other resources for learning Python.

Testate condition

As testate conditions are not in place anymore, it is not compulsory to hand in the assignments for correction. It is, however, recommended to submit the assignments as this will develop your understanding of the material and help you be better prepared for the exams.

Assignments

You can download the assignments (with templates) and solutions here:

Problem Set Templates Published on Submit by Solutions

Exercise Groups

All registered students will receive an email with the registration link (for MyStudies) to exercise groups before the starting of the first exercise class (24th February).

Group Time Classroom Tutor
1 Thu. 10:00-12:00 LFW B 2 L. Machado Poletti Valle
2 Thu. 12:00-14:00 LFW B 2 X. Zeng
3 Thu. 14:00-16:00 Zoom (Meeting ID: 933 1317 3040, Password: NM2FS23KS) K. Shakhnovich

Summary Assignments

Students will have the opportunity to earn bonus points by completing the "Mid-term summary assignment" and "End-term summary assignment". These will be two additional assignments consisting of simple and routine problems. Completing these assignments is not compulsory but doing so to a good standard will earn a student bonus points. Suppose a student gets x points (out of 60 points) in the mid-term summary assignment and y points (out of 60 points) in the end-term summary assignment, then they will get 0.25 bonus points added to their final grade if x+y > 80.

No programming problems will be involved in the mid-term and end-term summary assignments. The problems will focus on the important definitions and theorems from the course, with some examples.

The mid-term summary assignment will take place on the 3rd of April (Monday) and the end-term summary assignment will take place on the 22nd of May (Monday). In both cases, the assignments will be published here at 9am (Zurich time) and students will need to submit solutions via the SAM Upload Tool within 24 hours (i.e. by 9am the next morning). You will need to take photos or scans of your handwritten solutions. You can either fill in the white boxes or use your own paper. The assignments are designed to take around an hour to complete and will be similar to the mid-term and end-term tests of previous years (see below).

Exam

The final exam will be a (computer-aided) written exam. Programming with Python will be involved. Spyder will be available as the default editor. The lecture notes (in the form of the pdf, as given above) will be available during the exam.

Previous Mid-term and End-term Exams

Mid Term   End Term
2017 2017
2018 2018
2019 2019
2020 2020
2021 2021

Literature

Note: Extra reading is not considered important for understanding the course subjects.

  • Deuflhard and Bornemann: Numerische Mathematik II - Integration gewohnlicher Differentialgleichungen, Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1994.
  • Hairer and Wanner: Solving ordinary differential equations II - Stiff and differential-algebraic problems, Springer-Verlag, 1996.
  • Hairer, Lubich and Wanner: Geometric numerical integration - Structure-preserving algorithms for ordinary differential equations}, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2002.
  • L. Gruene, O. Junge "Gewoehnliche Differentialgleichungen", Vieweg+Teubner, 2009.
  • Hairer, Norsett and Wanner: Solving ordinary differential equations I - Nonstiff problems, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1993.
  • Walter: Gewöhnliche Differentialgleichungen - Eine Einuhrung, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1972.
  • Walter: Ordinary differential equations, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1998.