| Instructor | Paul Hertz |
| GMU, Sci & Tech I, room 113 (rarely) | |
| NASA, 202-358-0351 (weekdays) | |
| home, 703-455-8459 (evenings & weekends) |
| Class meets: | Thursday 7:20 - 10:00 p.m. |
| Enterprise Hall, room 279 | |
| Home page | http://astro.gmu.edu/classes/c76397/csi763.htm |
| http://astro.gmu.edu (and follow the link) |
Readings: (1) There is no text. However, you will find a copy of Numerical Recipes a very handy book to own. See their home page (http://cfata2.harvard.edu/nr/).
(2) There is a package of reprints from the astronomical literature for the course. Copying it at the students' expense will be arranged at the first class.
(3) There will be frequent handouts and reference lists for further
reading.
Homework: Homework will be assigned every class. It is
due the following class. Homework will be computational in nature,
and will typically consist of a task, or tasks, to be performed
on ASCII data sets available for download from the class home page.
I can also e-mail data sets to you -- let me know if you wish
this.
Software: If you have purchased a copy of Numerical
Recipes, then you are entitled to type the programs into the
computer and use them. I have the source code from the 1st Edition
of Numerical Recipes on HUBBLE as a text library. To extract the
source code for the subroutine FOO,
$ LIB/EXTRACT=FOO/OUT=FOO.FOR ODU6:[HERTZ.UTIL.NUMREC]RECIPES.TLB
| Grading | 65% Homework |
| 35% Final Exam |