CAPS 492-11: Computer Simulations

Announcements

Good-bye Party: This Sunday, May 6, 3pm
Ben, Katharina, Martin & Miriam: 114 South Fourth St. (purple house, wrap-around porch, blue door)

Last Assignments due May 3:

Talk: pdf-file (or power point) in ~/share.dir/ & give read permission & email name to me
Program: sourcefile (*.cc) in ~/share.dir/ & give read permission & email name to me
Second Paper:
- hardcopy of first draft of 2nd paper with my comments
- hardcopy of final version of 2nd paper
- pdf-file of final version of 2nd paper in ~/share.dir/ & give read permission & email name to me

Symposium: Poster and Pamphlet: Front, Back, Middle 1, Middle 2

Members:

Jessica Bernstein, Miles Dawson, Dan Dillon, Meghan Frate,
Lia Harrington, Will Kanegis, Kin Fung Kei, Jacob Lusa,
Evan Palumbo, Sowande Parkinson, Matthew Segar, Kota Suenaga

Course & General Programming Hand-Outs

Course Information
Summary Of Linux Commands
Summary Of Emacs Commands
Summary Of C++ Commands
sample programs for printing Sample Programs are in ~kvollmay/classes.dir/capstone_s2012.dir/unix_C++_intro.dir/C++sample*.cc

Guidelines For Main Project

Previous Capstone Projects: Spring 2011, Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2005, Spring 2003
Traffic Flow Paper by D. Chowdhury et al.
Bibliography/Model
paper
In-Class Work: Latex & Xfig
Scientific Talks (How to Give Talks)
Talk Examples: Selforganized Criticality with LJ (BU 2009) , SiO2 (BU 2009) , Granular Gas / Hydrodynamics (APS 2011)
In-Class Work: Talk Tools (LaTeX Beamer, xmgrace)
Class Summary & Symposium Talks

In Class Work

In-Class Work: C++ Solutions are in ~kvollmay/classes.dir/capstone_s2012.dir/unix_C++_intro.dir/C++2a.cc etc.

In-Class Work: Game of Life Solutions are in ~kvollmay/classes.dir/capstone_s2012.dir/game_of_life.dir/game2.cc etc.

In-Class Work: Latex & Xfig

In-Class Work: Talk Tools (LaTeX Beamer, xmgrace)

In-Class Work: Traffic Flow Solutions are in ~kvollmay/classes.dir/capstone_s2012.dir/traffic.dir/traffic2a.cc etc.

In-Class Work: Random Walks Solutions are in ~kvollmay/classes.dir/capstone_s2012.dir/fractal.dir/rand1b.cc etc.

In-Class Work: Fractals (DLA) Solutions are in ~kvollmay/classes.dir/capstone_s2012.dir/fractal.dir/DLA3.cc etc.

Homework Assignments (listed by due date)

HW1: January 24 (use: Sign-Up Sheet for Capstone Meetings and Linux Exercise)

HW2: January 26

HW3: January 31

HW4: February 2

HW5: February 7

HW6: February 9

HW7: February 14

February 16 (First Paper)

HW8: February 21

February 23 (Mini-Project I)

March 2 & 6 (Main Project Paper & Flow Chart)

HW9: March 8 ( Sign-Up Sheet for Capstone Meetings (March 2012))

March 21 (First Version of Program)

March 27 (Mini-Project II)

Assignments March 29 - April 26

Assignment for April 5 (&April 3 classwork)

Cool Webpages

Nagel-Schreckenberg Model: Info and to play
Simulations: Dirk Helbing and Microsimulation of Road Traffic (M. Treiber)
Fractal Pictures (Nature) and Fractal Growth and Mandelbrot Set
Game of Life Info and to play and more to play II and more to play III
Random Walk

Literature Search Tools

Web of Knowledge
BU pages:
Library & IT , Databases
Books: BU Library Catalog, Worldcat
Physics Sources: APS Journals, IOP Journals, ADS Labs (NASA) search, arXiv.org
Citations: APA citation guide, BU citation guides

Computer Tools

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