Practical Numerical Analysis (2025-26)
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- Lecturer: Profile: Kathryn Gillow
Section outline
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Opened: Friday, 10 October 2025, 12:00 AMDue: Wednesday, 29 October 2025, 5:00 PM
1D interpolation (including splines). The material for this sheet is contained in Lecture 1: Interpolation and Lecture 2: Splines and Radial Basis Functions.
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Opened: Friday, 17 October 2025, 12:00 AMDue: Monday, 10 November 2025, 12:00 PM
Quadrature and rootfinding. The material for this sheet is contained in Lecture 3: Quadrature and Lecture 4: Rootfinding.
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Opened: Sunday, 19 October 2025, 12:00 AMDue: Monday, 24 November 2025, 12:00 PM
The \(\theta\)-method and Runge Kutta schemes for ODE initial value problems. The material for this sheet is contained in Lecture 5: Initial Value Problems: ODEs and Lecture 6: Initial Value Problems: ODEs.
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Opened: Sunday, 19 October 2025, 12:00 AMDue: Monday, 1 December 2025, 12:00 PM
Adaptive Runge-Kutta methods, linear multistep methods and the 1D heat equation. The material for this sheet is contained in Lecture 7: Initial Value Problems: ODEs and Lecture 8: 1D Parabolic PDEs: Finite Difference Methods.
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The \(\theta\)-method for solving initial value ODE problems.
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Runge-Kutta schemes for solving ODE initial value problems.
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Adaptive Runge-Kutta schemes & linear multistep methods.
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Registration start: Monday, 6 October 2025, 12:00 PMRegistration end: Friday, 7 November 2025, 12:00 PM
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Class Tutor's Comments Assignment
Class tutors will use this activity to provide overall feedback to students at the end of the course.
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