Lecturer

Teaching Assistants

  • Dr. Julija Zavadlav (Head TA)
  • Dr. Nikos Karathanasopoulos
  • Pantelis Vlachas
  • Adrian Esser
  • David Bachmann
  • Philipp Müller

Class Room

  • Lecture: HG F1
  • Exercise: CHN E42, ML F38, ML H43, NO C6, CHN D 44

Class Times

  • Lecture:
    • Friday, 10:15 – 12:00 (HG F 1)
  • Exercise:
    • Tuesday 15:15 – 16:00
      • CHN E 42 – Pantelis
      • NO C 6 – Adrian
      • ML F 38 – David
      • ML H 43 – Philipp
    • Wednesday 16:15 – 17:00
      • CHN D 44 – Nikos
  • Help with coding:
    • Thursday 17:15 – 18:00 (LFW C 4)

Info:

Homework Grade submission

  • Deadline: 18.06.2018 midnight
  • Email: mad_fs18@sympa.ethz.ch, subject: [grading], attachment: table with HW grades example: xx-xxx-xxx.txt (x's correspond to the legi-ID)
  • For more info read the FAQ

Exam

  • Time: 08.08.2018 9:15-11:15
  • Room: HIL G 15
  • Personal summary 4 pages (2 sheets) handwritten or machine-typed
    (single-spaced, font size at least 8 pts.), non-scientific calculator
  • Mockup exam

Exam Review

  • 06.09.2018 10:00-12:00, HG G 26.1
  • 13.09.2018 14:00-16:00, HG G 26.1

Textbooks

  • Numerical Analysis (R. L. Burden and J. D. Faires)
  • The Nature of Mathematical Modeling (N. Gershenfeld)
  • Introduction to Applied Mathematics (G. Strang)
  • Analysis of Numerical Methods (Isaacson and Keller)

Advanced reading material

Additional Material

Great AI movie The Thinking Machine

Machine Learning for Flappy Bird using Neural Network & Genetic Algorithm

Lectures Lecture recordings from 2015

Miscellaneous

  • Portability issues: zip-file (info for Windows, VirtualBox and Libraries)
  • Cross-Validation Matlab Demo: zip-file
  • Additional notes on 'Nonlinear Systems' (Prof. Heath, UIUC): PDF
  • Instructions for installing and using the GNU Scientific Library (gsl) on Windows, by Leonard Bauersfeld: zip-file

Useful Links