Ay/Bi 199b:  Planned lecture topics (subject to changes)

Date      Topic (Instructor)

Mar 29    Introduction, logistics, wikis & blogs (Djorgovski, Mahabal)
Mar 31    Best Programming Practices (Mahabal)
Apr 5     Introduction to data mining (Djorgovski)
Apr 7     Flavors of languages (Mahabal)
Apr 12    Supervised classifiers (Donalek)
Apr 14    Unsupervised classifiers (Donalek)
Apr 19    Scientific visualization I (Lombeyda)
Apr 21    Scientific visualization II (Lombeyda)
Apr 26    Hardware evolution trends (Kogge)
Apr 28    Parallel computing (Upchurch)
May 3     Databases I (Graham)
May 5     Databases II (Graham)
May 10    Semantics (Graham)
May 12    Introduction to Bayesian methods (Mahabal)
May 17    Bayesian methods (Moghaddam)
May 19    R package for statistics I (Mahabal)
May 24    R package for statistics II (Mahabal)
May 26    Computational science and engineering (Stalzer)