Instructor: Peter Siegel, Room 8-223,Email: pbsiegel@cpp.edu, Home Page.

Office Hours: MWF 9-10; Tu 10-11; M 2-3

Lecture Hours: Tu 4-6 in room 4-3-567

Textbook: There is no specic textbook for the course. I will post my lecture notes online as well as some sample programs. There are a number of good texts on computational physics. A nice one I have used in the past is Computer Simulation Methods: Applications to Physics Systems, by Gould and Tobochnik.

Grading: Programming Projects 100%

Course Material
Computers are used in many ways in solving physics problems. One goal of this course is to teach you some numerical methods and give you experience of writing computer programs to solve problems in nuclear and particle physics. Another goal is to give you a good introduction to the ROOT software used at CERN. Below is a tentative outline of the numerical methods and physics topics that I plan to cover this quarter. These can vary depending upon the interest of the students.

Programming Projects
There will be 5 programming projects assigned thoroughout the quarter. For each project you will be writting a computer program in the ROOT environment from CERN. I will try and design the assignment so that there is a basic part which I hope everyone will be able to complete, plus a more challenging part.