Objectives:
Computer programming is a core skill for geophysicists working in the industry and academia. The overall goal of this course is to provide the students with a good understanding of computational geophysics and why this topic is important in geophysics. A first subgoal of this course then is to provide the students with an intermediate level of understanding and programming skills in computational geophysics. A second subgoal of this course is for the students to learn how to do a literature study or a small research project on a topic in computational geophysics.
Content:
In this course the students will learn a number of tools from numerical mathematics, including interpolation, differentiation, integration, signal processing and solving simple ordinary/partial differential equations and write computer programs (in Matlab) that apply these methods on topics in geophysics. These topics include seismic exploration, earthquake seismology and gravity. The student will then do a literature or research project on a specific topic in computational geophysics, write a brief paper on this topic, with special emphasis on the numerical and programming aspects, and finally will give a presentation on this project.
On completion of the course the student should have the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:
Knowledge
The student
Skills
The student
General competence
The student
Total teaching of 12 weeks
First 8 weeks: Teaching using active learning techniques: 4 hours/week,
Last 4 weeks: research or literature project