ASTR 8150 - Computational Methods for Physics and Astronomy

3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Some prior programming experience is expected.
Description
Solving astronomical problems using modern numerical methods, with a practical “hands-on” approach to code-writing. A wide range of subjects will be covered including numerical analysis (integration, differentiation, differential equations), error analysis (error propagation, bootstrapping), modeling and fitting (maximum likelihood, maximum a posteriori), time series analysis (correlations, Fourier transforms, principal component decomposition, wavelets), optimization (root finding, minimization engines), image processing (filtering, registration and comparison, inverse methods) and parallel programming.