CS 370 - Intro. to Scientific Computing Fall Semester 2010, Section 001 Tu/Th 2:10 - 3:25pm, Claxton 205

Instructor Office Hours: Mo (9:00-10:00am) or by appointment, CL318 Teaching Assistant: Andrey Puretskiy, Office Hours: (see Lab Section below), Office Phone 974-4196 Possible online book suppliers for our textbook are: Bookpool, Efollet, and allbookstores.com. The Lab Section for this class meets in CL103 (Cetus Lab) on Friday from 2:30pm to 5:30pm. This 3-hour period will serve as office hours for the TA to provide guidance and help on all assigned programming tasks. Please email the TA by the end of class each Friday if you plan to attend lab/office hours.   Class lecture: Dr. Judy Day with a joint faculty appointment between the Math and EECS Departments will lecture on Mathematical Modeling for Biomedical Applications on Thursday, Sept 16 during our regular class period. Students should sign the attendance sheet and turn in a two-paragraph summary of the lecture at the beginning of class on Tuesday, Sept. 21.   Special lecture: Dr. Suzanne Shontz from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Penn State will give an invited colloquim entitled Meshing Techniques for Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations and Shape Matching at 2:00pm in Claxton 205 on Thursday, October 7. Selected talk-related images: Image 1, Image 2. Click here for the abstract of Dr. Shontz's talk. Refreshments will be served afterwards at 3:00pm in the Claxton 203 Conference Room. CS370 students who attend this lecture can receive extra credit points for writing a 2-paragraph summary of the presentation. [Announcement]   High-performance scientific computing applied to molecular chemistry: partitioning and distribution of a protein's atoms,© INRIA.