Lectures

Times: Tuesdays 12–1pm · Thursdays 12–1pm · Fridays 9–10am
Location: Ray Dolby Centre auditorium, Cavendish Laboratory
Calendar: Google Calendar · .ics file

#	Date	Topic	Theme	Lecturer
1	Thu 8 Oct	Course environment	Foundations	Boris Bolliet
2	Fri 9 Oct	Numbers in memory	Foundations	Boris Bolliet
3	Tue 13 Oct	Computer systems and the command line	Foundations	Boris Bolliet
4	Thu 15 Oct	Reproducible Python environments	Foundations	Boris Bolliet
5	Fri 16 Oct	Version control with Git	Foundations	Boris Bolliet
6	Tue 20 Oct	Algorithms: easy versus hard	Complexity	Alessandro Favero
7	Thu 22 Oct	Divide and conquer	Complexity	Alessandro Favero
8	Fri 23 Oct	Dynamic programming	Complexity	Alessandro Favero
9	Tue 27 Oct	The Python execution model: names, objects, scope and closures	Python	Boris Bolliet
10	Thu 29 Oct	Higher-order functions and decorators	Python	Boris Bolliet
11	Fri 30 Oct	Classes and object-oriented design for simulation code	Python	Boris Bolliet
12	Tue 3 Nov	From scripts to an installable package	Packages and quality	Boris Bolliet
13	Thu 5 Nov	Graphs and greedy algorithms	Complexity	Alessandro Favero
14	Fri 6 Nov	Complexity V	Complexity	Alessandro Favero
15	Tue 10 Nov	Testing, documentation and continuous integration	Packages and quality	Boris Bolliet
16	Thu 12 Nov	Complexity VI	Complexity	Alessandro Favero
17	Fri 13 Nov	Array programming: Turing patterns	Scientific computing	Boris Bolliet
18	Tue 17 Nov	Large matrices: the randomised SVD	Scientific computing	Boris Bolliet
19	Thu 19 Nov	Debugging and profiling scientific code	Scientific computing	Boris Bolliet
20	Fri 20 Nov	Research software as a web service	Software services	Boris Bolliet
21	Tue 24 Nov	Distribution and deployment: wheels and containers	Software services	Boris Bolliet
22	Thu 26 Nov	Time series and spectral methods	Scientific computing	Boris Bolliet
23	Fri 27 Nov	Differentiable and compiled Python with JAX	Accelerated computing	Boris Bolliet
24	Tue 1 Dec	Cloud computing and accelerators	Accelerated computing	Boris Bolliet