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2017 Course Calendar

Lecture 1 9/6	Automatic Differentiation. Julia is fast.	Github	SIAM paper
Lecture 2 9/11	MCMC	Github
Lecture 3 9/13	Machine Learning with Knet.jl	Github
Lecture 4 9/18	Regression	Github
Lecture 5 9/20	Backpropagation	Github
Lecture 6 9/25	ApproxFun	Github
Lecture 7 9/27	Parallel Prefix	Github
Lecture 8 10/2	Spectral Partitioning
Lecture 9 10/4	Guest Lecture: Jeremy Kepner
No Lecture 10/9
Lecture 10 10/11	SVD and GSVD
Lecture 11 10/16	Recurrent Neural Network Lab
Lecture 12 10/18	Quantum Computing (Ramis Movassagh)
Lecture 13 10/23	Guest Lecture: Dave Sanders Metaprogramming	Github
Lecture 14 10/25	Midterm Projects
Lecture 15 10/30
Lecture 16 11/1	Celeste (Guest lecture by Keno Fisher)
Lecture 17 11/6
Lecture 18 11/8
Lecture 19 11/13
Lecture 20 11/15
Lecture 21 11/20
No Lecture 11/22
Lecture 22 11/27
Lecture 23 11/29
Lecture 24 12/4
Lecture 25 12/6
Lecture 26 12/11
Lecture 27 12/13

2016 Course Calendar

See the 2015 course calendar (or other past years) for a more detailed view of what might be covered.

Lecture 1 9/7	What is Julia? Why is it fast? Random walks example	Github	Fast track to Julia
Lecture 2 9/12	Generic programming; the power method as an example	Github	Invitation to Julia
Lecture 3 9/14	Abstractions for parallel hardware: DistributedArrays, ArrayFire; defining an operator; parallel prefix algorithm	Github	HPC is dying
Lecture 4 9/19	Parallel prefix algorithm	Github	National Strategic Computing Initiative
Lecture 5 9/21	Metaprogramming: expressions, macros and code generation	Github
Lecture 6 9/26	GPUs: Guest lecturer Valentin Churavy	Github
Lecture 7 9/28	PageRank case study: Guest lecturer Andreas Noack	Github	MPI.jl
Lecture 8 10/3	Optimization with JuMP: Guest lecturer Miles Lubin	Miles's Github
Lecture 9 10/5	Prefix in practice, the star topology, tridiagonal matrices, MPI, Elemental		Eka Palamadai's thesis
[10/10	No lecture	Columbus Day]
Lecture 10 10/12	Number representations: integers, fixed-point, floating point	Github
Lecture 11 10/17	IEEE floating point: 1/x, subnormals	Github
Lecture 12 10/19	Set calculations with interval arithmetic		Gustafson Arith 22 Talk Slides
Lecture 13 10/24	Mid-term presentations	Presentations
Lecture 14 10/26	Mid-term presentations	Presentations
Lecture 15 10/31	The Singular-Value Decomposition (SVD)	Github
Lecture 16 11/2	Least squares; the "\" operator; the FFT	Github
Lecture 17 11/7	Parametric types in Julia	Github
Lecture 18 11/9	Spectral partitioning	Github
Lecture 19 11/14	Automatic differentiation: Forward mode and backward mode	Github
Lecture 20 11/16	Geometric partitioning; Escher.jl
Lecture 21 11/21	Guest lecturer Shashi Gowda: Interact and Escher.jl	Github
[Lecture 22 11/23	No lecture	Thanksgiving travel]
Lecture 23 11/28	Fast multipole	PDF
Lecture 24 11/30	Guest lecturer Jiahao Chen: Amdahl's law
Lecture 25 12/5	Chebyshev approximation; spectral methods; ApproxFun.jl	Github
Lecture 26 12/7	Final project presentations
Lecture 27 12/12	Final project presentations
Lecture 28 12/14	Final project presentations