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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):
| Lecture | Date | Topic | Lecturer | Lecture 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 | |
| 7 | Mar 12 | ||||
| 8 | Mar 13 | ||||
| 9 | Mar 16 | Least Squares Methods | GG | Lecture slides | |
| 10 | Mar 19 | ||||
| 11 | Mar 20 | Finite 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 3 | Midterm 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 | |
| 22 | May 4 | More Markov chain and intro to genetics | DW | Genetics slides | |
| 23 | May 7 | Genetics, homology and scoring alignments | DW | Notes for lectures 22, 23, 24 | |
| 24 | May 8 | Pairwise alignment | DW | Pairwise slides | |
| 25 | May 11 | Multiple Sequence Alignment and UPGMA | DW | Lecture notes | |
| 26 | May 14 | Progressive alignment, ultrametric and additive distances | DW | Lecture notes | |
| 27 | May 15 | Neighbour joining and parsimony | DW | Lecture notes | |
| 28 | May 18 | Maximum parsimony | DW | Lecture notes | |
| 29 | May 21 | Models for trees | DW | Lecture notes | |
| 30 | May 22 | Models for sequence mutation | DW | Lecture notes | |
| 31 | May 25 | Special Topics on Bioinformatics | DW | ||
| 32 | May 28 | ||||
| 33 | May 29 | ||||
| 34 | June 1 | Course review | GG,DW | Lecture slides for Pt.1 | |
The City Campus map with pointers to the lectures' venues:
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