Pre-Course Mathematics
Date
14 – 18 October 2024
Time
9 AM – 12:30 PM
Mode
on-site: room 0.101 IFI
If you want to participate but are not in Göttingen at the time of the course, please get in touch with Anna Platte
Responsible
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schmitzer
Contents
We will not focus on proofs and derivations but on good intuition and practical working knowledge.
Tentative list of topics:
Tentative list of topics:
- analysis and calculus (limits, derivatives, integrals, differential equations)
- linear algebra (eigendecomposition, inverses, linear systems, polytopes)
- probabilities and statistics (distributions, covariance and correlation, Bayes' rule, hypothesis testing)
- optimization (optimality conditions, Lagrange multipliers, convexity, gradient descent, Newton method)
See here for a more detailed list.
Registration
Registration via StudIP
Python
In case you do not have any prior knowledge in Python or feel that your Python skills need a little refresh, the online self-study material of Prof. Bela Gipp’s group might be interesting for you. After you have registered here, you can access the course. Please note that a University of Göttingen account is required for registration.
- Contact Dean of Studies Computer Science
Georg-August-University Göttingen
Student Advisory Service
Goldschmidtstr. 7
37077 Göttingen
studienberatung@informatik.uni-goettingen.de