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Winter Semester 2025\/2026 (lecture notes<\/a>; exercises<\/a>; codes)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Lectures:<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
Mon., 09:00-11:00, Room 02.116; <\/strong><\/span>Tue., \u00a0 11:00-13:00, Room 02.116<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Changes to this schedule are announced in the Hochschulportal<\/a>\u00a0and will reported here as well (here<\/a> the information about the tutoring and exercises). Planned changes are: 20.10, 21.10<\/span><\/strong> (moved to 23.10, 24.10<\/strong>) and 08.12, 09.12<\/span><\/strong> (moved to 18.12, 19.12<\/strong>).<\/span><\/div>\n
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Exercises:<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
Wed., 14:00-16:00, Room 02.120; Frid., 12:00-14:00, Room 02.120.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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The tutors for the course are Ivan Garibay<\/a>, and Keneth Miler<\/a>. Two \u00a0groups will be organised distributing students in the different time slots.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Please register to the course by sending an email to Frau Steidl<\/a>; this will help create a mailing list.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Information on the course<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n

The course aims at providing\u00a0<\/span>the student with many of the “tools” frequently used in the solution of\u00a0<\/span>physical problems. The course is meant to be an applied course, in\u00a0<\/span>which the actual programming is a key feature. For this reason, each\u00a0<\/span>lecture will have one or more exercises involving the solution of a\u00a0<\/span>specific physical problem via the use of numerical codes implementing the\u00a0<\/span>techniques discussed in the lecture. The codes can be written in any of\u00a0<\/span>the following languages: fortran (77, 90, 95), C, C++, python. H<\/span>owever no specific computational knowledge is necessary. Each exercise\u00a0<\/span>must be completed (ideally) before the subsequent lecture in the course\u00a0<\/span>starts. Topics covered include:<\/span><\/p>\n