MAS.864 - The Nature of Mathematical Modelling

Instructor: Neil Gershenfeld. Spring 2011

1: A Bouncing Ball

2: Ordinary Differential Equations

3: Random Numbers

4: Finite Differences: Numerical Solutions to ODEs

5: Partial Differential Equations

6: Finite Elements

7: Cellular Automata

8: Function Fitting

9: Transforms

10: Search

11: Constrained Optimization

Final Project: Structural Optimization