AEP 3555 - Gaining Intuition Through Symmetry and Computation

Fall. 3 credits. Student option grading.

Prerequisite: AEP 3200. Co-meets with AEP 5555. Experience in MATLAB/Octave or Python is expected.

C. Fennie.

From Big Data to Small Molecules/Electrons, to Waves Propagating in Metamaterials, the problems of the future in the applied sciences require today’s students to be trained in advanced analytical and/or computational techniques, which are in fact already a core part of the curriculum. The goal of this course is understand how to reduce the complexity of a problem in a physically meaningful manner, before attempting to actually solve any particular problem, all the while gaining intuition as to what the answer might be.