Old announcements from
<A HREF="859E.html">
15-859E</A>:
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    18 Nov:
    <A HREF="http://www.skypub.com/news/news.shtml">
    reports on the Leonid meteor shower</A>,
    worldwide.
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    17 Nov: reading for Thursday is available -- see schedule below.
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    backyard astrophysics: look for the
    <A HREF="http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~astroc/">
    Leonid meteor shower</A>
    on 17 & 18 Nov.
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    talk by Marc Fasnacht (in our class) on Fri 13 Nov on
    <A HREF="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sss/">
    Monte Carlo Simulation of Proteins</A>
    that might be of interest.
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    30 Oct: I installed a new version of SVL which fixes some bugs on Linux.
    I suggest you do "rm *.o" and re-make to ensure that all of
    your .o files are using SVL's new header files.
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    30 Oct: <B>test pictures for wavelet assignment are available.</B>
    see wavelet assignment page (below).
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    29 Oct: new course pictures page, see below
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    29 Oct: see project handout below; note Thursday 11/5 proposal due date
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    24 Oct: The wavelet assignment is out.
    See below.
    It's image compression,
    not variational surface design, as previously announced.
    The latter looked too difficult for the limited time we have.
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    20 Oct: lecture notes for today are available (see schedule below)
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    16 Oct: reading for Tuesday is available outside
    my secretary, Cleah Schlueter's office, Doherty 4309.
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    13 Oct: <B>the multigrid assignment is out</B>.  see below.
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    8 Oct: if you ordered a "Multigrid Tutorial" book, pick it up
    by tomorrow because we'll sell off the unclaimed books after that.
    If you didn't order the book but you want a copy, go to Cleah Schlueter
    in Doherty 4309 next week.
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    2 Oct: the group order of the book
    <A HREF="http://www.siam.org/catalog/mcc07/brigggs.htm">
    <I>A Multigrid Tutorial</I></A>
    arrived.
    If you ordered one, you can pick it up in Doherty 4309.
    The cost is $16.20.
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    6 Oct: kinetic energy is .5*m*v^2, not m*v^2.
    Sorry, my error.  -Paul.
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    5 Oct: If reading particle2 files into nbody.cc isn't working, try
    changing %F to %lf in read_number subroutine.
    On Suns, this fixes a bug in my code.
    See news group for more info.
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    On Tuesday 6 Oct. there's no lecture (see schedule below).
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    3 Oct: <B>see the updated n-body assignment handout</B> (below),
    which now discusses testing and submission.
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    2 Oct: code to read the particle2 file format is in
    pub/src/nbody/nbody.cc.
    See also the test file orbit.p2 in that dir and the program
    randsq.cc.
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    In class 1 Oct.,
    sign up for group order of Briggs' book,
    <A HREF="http://www.siam.org/catalog/mcc07/brigggs.htm">
    <I>A Multigrid Tutorial</I></A>,
    about $17 or $18 each,
    which we'll be reading starting the following week.
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    1 Oct: Use the news group cmu.cs.class.cs859e for discussion
    related to the class (programming assignments, etc.).
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    22 Sept: the first programming assignment is now available -- see below
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    <A HREF="szalay.html">
    Astrophysics talk, Mon 9/21 4pm</A>,
    may be of interest
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