Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: courses 81, 115, 117, and Computer Science 30 or 31 or Program in Computing 10A. Designed for upper-division Astrophysics and Physics majors. Project-based introduction to data and computation in astrophysics context. Students develop core computational toolkit for data retrieval, processing, analysis, visualization, and interpretation. Topics include analysis of large, heterogeneous datasets; high-performance computation; numerical simulations; and scientific numerical methods. P/NP or letter grading.

Units: 4.0