Numerical and symbolical methods for Bioinformatics (2KV)

Course no.:	365.046
Lecturers:	Josef Synka (e-mail: josef.synka@jku.at)
Times/locations:	Fri 10:15-11:45, HF 9915 Start: Fri 3 Oct 2008 (room HF 9905)
Mode:	KV, 2h, weekly
Registration:	KUSSS

Motivation:

The aim of this course is to introduce students in numerical methods for

• linear equations (direct and iterative solvers)
• nonlinear equations
• ordinary differential equations
• optimization (basics only, if still enough time)
• partial differential equations (basics only, if still enough time)

Different numerical methods for solving such problems will be discussed

1. by providing a brief theoretical background (contents and progress will be adjusted to the knowledge of the participants and are thus flexible - thus, no complete lecture notes will be provided, but only excerpts of different ones, where appropriate) and
2. by utilizing the commercial software package Matlab in order to solve some (practical) problems in the named areas.

A brief introduction to Matlab will be given at the beginning of the course and the usage of Matlab functions in our context will be demonstrated before they are to be applied by the students to solve some problems on their own.

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