This is a tentative schedule.   Please check the course web pages for changes and updates. Readings refer to Computational Physics   by Giordano and Nakanishi.
 

Week	Topics	Reading	Lab
Week 1 (W 1/11 - F 1/13)	Differentiation, Integration	Appendix E	N/A
Week 2 (W 1/18 - F 1/20)	Root finding, ODE	Appendix B, Ch. 1	Precision
Week 3 (M 1/23 - F 1/27)	ODEs: Initial value problems	Ch. 3, Appendix A	Error Analysis
Week 4 (M 1/30 - F 2/3)	ODEs: Boundary value and eigenvalue problems	Ch. 10	Stability
Week 5 (M 2/6 - F 2/10)	Matrices; PDEs	Ch. 10, Appendix H	Shooting/matching: quantum wells
Week 6 (M 2/13 - F 2/17)	PDEs; Molecular dynamics	Ch. 9	Electronic states: atoms/molecules/solids
Week 7 (W 2/22 - F 2/24)	Molecular dynamics: clusters	Ch. 9	LJ dimer
Week 8 (M 2/27 - F 3/2)	Molecular dynamics: extended systems	Ch. 9	Exam 1
Week 9 (M 3/12 - F 3/16)	Random numbers; simple stochachastic models	Appendix F, Ch. 7	Melting of LJ solid
Week 10 (M 3/19 - F 3/23)	Simple stochastic models	Ch. 7	DLA
Week 11 (M 3/26 - F 3/30)	Monte Carlo Integration	Ch. 8, Appendix E.4	Variational Monte Carlo
Week 12 (M 4/2 - W 4/4)	Monte Carlo: Ising Model	Ch. 8	TBD
Week 13 (T 4/10 - F 4/13)	Phase transitions	Ch. 8	Equilibration and fluctuations
Week 14 (M 4/16 - F 4/20)	TBD	TBD	TBD
Week 15 (M 4/23 - M 4/30)	TBD	TBD	Exam 2