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Prof. Kok-Ming Leung
Spring 2004, Tues. 6--8:15pm
In many areas of science and engineering, computer simulation and other computational methods now have a role equal in importance to the traditional theoretical and experimental approaches. Even in disciplines such as finance, management, and social sciences, which traditionally have not been considered as highly computational in nature, the use of simulation and other numerical methods have been steadily growing. The ability to compute by simulation has now become a part of the essential repertoire of many researchers in these areas.
The course CS 909 deals with basic computer simulation techniques, such as Monte Carlo, genetic algorithms and artificial life, random walks and diffusion, cellular automata, neural networks, and molecular dynamics. Students must have at least taken the complete sequence of introductory level mathematics courses, and have the ability to write computer programs in a high level computer language. Prior knowledge in numerical analysis is not required.