Topics for Ay/Bi 199b, Spring 2009, Methods of Computational Science, part II
(no. of lectures) [instructor(s)]

Virtual scientific organizations and collaboration tools (1) [Djorgovski]
Web services and data access (2) [Williams]
Semantic Web (2) [Graham]
R package and statistics software (2) [Mahabal]
{Michael to provide titles} (2) [Aivazis]
"Software systems housekeeping" (1) [Mahabal]
Scientific databases, another look (1) [Bunn]
Into to Matlab (1) [Donalek]
Intro to Mathematica (1) [Aivazis]
{expanded lecture or one of these} (1) [Donalek/Aivazis/?]
Markov chains (1) [Pepke]
Grid computing and cloud computing (1) [Upchurch, Bunn, Williams?]
Numerical libraries and tools (1) [Petzold?]
Parallel computing (1) [Upchurch?, others?]

We can afford to nix one of the lectures.  Topic substitutions are still welcome.  Please let me know if you have a correct assignment, and are willing and able.

The calendar slots (17) are:

Thu Apr 2
Tue Apr 7
Thu Apr 9
Tue Apr 14
Thu Apr 16
Tue Apr 21
Thu Apr 23
Tue Apr 28
Thu Apr 30
Tue May 5
Thu May 7
Tue May 12
Thu May 14
Tue May 19
Thu May 21
Tue May 26
Thu May 28

Please let me know what time slots are optimal/acceptable/impossible for you.  We'll iterate by email. Thanks!

George