12.747 Lecture and Homework Schedule Fall 2008

Schedule last modified 24 September 2008

Lecture Dates 2008

Lecture

Short Title

Problem Sets

4 September (Jenkins)

Lecture 1

Resources & SVD

PS01 out: 4 Sep; due: 11 Sep

9 September (Glover)

Lecture 2

Measurement, Hypotheses, Error

 

11 September (Doney)

Lecture 3

Least squares

PS02 out: 11 Sep; due: 18 Sep

16 September (Glover)

Lecture 4

Factor analysis, part 1

 

18 September (Glover)

Lecture 5

Factor analysis, part 2

PS03 out: 18 Sep; due: 2 Oct

23 September (Glover)

Lecture 6

Time series analysis

 

25 September

No Classes

40th Joint Program Anniversary

 

30 September (Glover)

Lecture 7

Fourier analysis

 

2 October (Glover)

Lecture 8

Objective mapping, part 1

PS04 out: 2 Oct; due: 9 Oct

7 October (Glover)

Lecture 9

Objective mapping, part 2

 

9 October (Jenkins)

Lecture 10

ODEs and 0-D Box Models

PS05 out: 9 Oct; due: 23 Oct

14 October (Jenkins)

Lecture 11

Tutorial of Numerical Modeling

 

16 October (Jenkins)

Lecture 12

Model Analysis and Optimization

 

21 October (Jenkins)

Lecture 13

Advection-diffusion, part 1

 

23 October (Glover)

Lecture 14

Advection-diffusion, part 2

PS06 out: 23 Oct; due: 30 Oct

28 October (Jenkins)

Lecture 15

Finite Differences, part 1

 

30 October (Jenkins)

Lecture 16

Finite Differences, part 2

PS07 out: 30 Oct; due: 6 Nov

4 November (Doney)

Lecture 17

1-D open ocean models

 

6 November (Glover)

Lecture 18

1-D sediment models

PS08 out: 6 Nov; due: 13 Nov

11 November

No Classes

Veterans Day

 

13 November (Jenkins)

Lecture 19

1-D upper ocn model

PS09 out: 13 Nov; due: 20 Nov

18 November (Doney)

Lecture 20

2-D gyre models

 

20 November (Doney)

Lecture 21

3-D GCMs

PS10 out: 20 Nov; due: 2 Dec

25 November (Doney)

No Lecture today

 

 

27 November

No Classes

Thanksgiving Holiday

 

2 December (Doney)

Lecture 22

Inverse Methods & Assimilation Techniques

 

4 December (Doney)

Lecture 23

Ocean inversions and Data Assimilation

 

9 December (Doney)

Lecture 24

Scientific Visualization