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Lecture Room

76-2155

Class Times

Tuesday & Thursday, 16:00-17:50

Required Textbooks

• Arfken and Weber, Mathematical Methods for Physicists, Sixth Edition (Elsevier, 2005). ISBN 978-0-12-059876-2
• Gregory, Bayesian logical data analysis for the physical sciences, First Edition (Cambridge, 2005). ISBN 978-0-52-184150-4

Recommended Textbooks

• Wall and Jenkins, Practical statistics for astronomers, First Edition (Cambridge, 2003). ISBN 978-0-52-145616-6
• Wasserman, All of statistics: a concise course in statistical inference, First Edition (Springer, 2005). ISBN 978-0-38-740272-7
• Sivia with Skilling, Data analysis: a Bayesian tutorial, Second Edition (Oxford, 2006). ISBN 978-0-19-856832-2
  Also available as an electronic book through the Wallace Library.

Other Useful References

• Matthews and Walker, Mathematical Methods of Physics, Second Edition (Addison-Wesley, 1970). ISBN 978-0-80-537002-7
• Vaughn, Introduction to Mathematical Physics First Edition (Wiley, 2007). ISBN 978-3-52-740627-2
• Byron and Fuller Mathematics of Classical and Quantum Physics, combined vols I and II (Dover, 1992) ISBN 978-0-48-667164-2
• Dennery and Krzywicki, Mathematics for Physicists (Dover, 1996) ISBN 978-0-48-669193-0
• Bendat and Piersol, Random Data: Analysis & Measurement Procedures Third Edition (Wiley, 2000) ISBN 978-0-47-131733-3
• Press, Teukolsky, Vetterling, and Flannery, Numerical Recipes Third Edition (Cambridge, 2007) ISBN 978-0-52-188407-5

Course Webpage

http://ccrg.rit.edu/~whelan/1060-710/ (this page)

Instructor

Dr. John T. Whelan

74-2063, 5-5083

john.whelan@astro.rit.edu

Office Hours

MW 16:00-17:50

Syllabus

Lecture Notes

• Mathematical Methods
  • See also Exercises on Fourier Series
• Statistical Methods

Homework Assignments

• Problem Set 1 -- Due 2010 September 14
• Problem Set 2 -- Due 2010 September 21
• Problem Set 3 -- Due 2010 September 28
• Problem Set 4 -- Due 2010 October 5
• Problem Set 5 -- Due 2010 October 19
• Problem Set 6 -- Due 2010 October 26
• Problem Set 7 -- Due 2010 November 2
  • data file
• Problem Set 8 -- Due 2010 November 11

Links

• 1060-710, Math/Stat Methods, Fall 2009
• Python
  • SciPy
    • NumPy
    • ipython
  • matplotlib
  • AstroPython
• Center for Astrostatistics