The contents of this course will be 60% of a nominal computational physics plus 40% of experimental particle physics related materials. Minimum skill on computer languages is needed.
The outlines are given as below:
* Introduction and example applications
* Linear algebra
- basic operations
- eigenvalue problems
* Calculus in computers
- Evaluating numerical differentials and integrals
- Solving differential equations
- Simple physics applications in classical mechanics
* Monte Carlo
- Random number generators
- A little bit on the statistics
- Physics applications
* Numerical analysis
- Fits: least square and maximum likelihood
- Multi-variable analysis and learning machines
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