Computer Science


Lectures: COMPSCI 369 Semester 1, 2012, City Campus


The following schedule overviews the syllabus for the course. The lectures are from the noon to 1:00 pm on Monday (Owen G. Glenn Bldg / Bldg 260: Case Room 4 [260-009]), from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm on Tuesday (Arts2 / Bldg 207: Lecture Theatre C303), and from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm on Friday (Arts2 / Bldg 207: Lecture Theatre C303): see the City Campus map below.

2012 lecture schedule (supplementary materials for lectures see in the Resources folder):

LectureDateTopicLecturerLecture notes
1 Feb 27 Introduction to Computational Science GG Lecture slides
2 Feb 28 Finding Roots of Non-linear Equations and Solving Systems of Linear Equations GG Lecture slides
3 Mar 2 Solving Systems of Linear Equations (SVD; PCA) GG Lecture slides
4 Mar 5
5 Mar 6
6 Mar 9 Nonlinear Unconstrained and Constrained Optimisation GG Lecture slides: UO

Lecture slides: CO

7 Mar 12
8 Mar 13
9 Mar 16 Least Squares Methods GG Lecture slides
10 Mar 19
11 Mar 20Finite Difference Methods and Finite Element Methods GG Lecture slides
12 Mar 23
13 Mar 26 Dynamic Programming GG Lecture slides
14 Mar 27
15 Mar 30 Local Search Algorithms GG Lecture slides
16 Apr 2 Introduction to Backtracking and Branch-and-Bound GG Lecture slides
April 3Midterm test
17 Apr 23 Introduction to probability DW Lecture notes
18 Apr 24 Distributions and inference DW Lecture notes
19 Apr 27 Inference and connections to computer science DW Lecture notes
20 Apr 30 Simulation DW Lecture notes
21 May 1 Simulation and Markov chains DW Lecture notes
22May 4More Markov chain and intro to geneticsDW Genetics slides
23May 7Genetics, homology and scoring alignmentsDW Notes for lectures 22, 23, 24
24May 8Pairwise alignmentDW Pairwise slides
25May 11Multiple Sequence Alignment and UPGMADW Lecture notes
26May 14Progressive alignment, ultrametric and additive distancesDW Lecture notes
27May 15Neighbour joining and parsimonyDW Lecture notes
28May 18Maximum parsimony DW Lecture notes
29May 21Models for treesDW Lecture notes
30May 22Models for sequence mutationDW Lecture notes
31May 25Special Topics on Bioinformatics DW
32May 28
33May 29
34June 1Course reviewGG,DW Lecture slides for Pt.1

The City Campus map with pointers to the lectures' venues:

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