CS 530 Geometric and Probabilistic Methods in Computer Science

Fall 2007

MW 2:00-3:15

Dane Smith 132

Instructor:

    Joe Michael Kniss
    Ferris 301G
    277-2967
    jmk (at) cs.unm.edu
    Office Hours: MW 3:30-5:30

Info:

    Official class web page:
    www.cs.unm.edu/~jmk/cs530

Recommended Text

    The Nature of Mathematical Modeling Neil Gershenfeld, ISBN 0-521-57095-6
    This book is available at the bookstore.
    Note: text is not required, but recommended for the class.
    Fall 06 notes.
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Description

    This is a course in applied mathematics for computer scientists, with an emphasis on information theory and linear systems theory. The goal of this course is to introduce computer science graduate students to the practical kind of mathematics useful for computer simulation and mathematical modeling and by researchers in scientific computation, computer vision and graphics, image processing, robotics, machine learning, and neural networks.

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