GNU-Octave, un ambiente free di alto livello per il calcolo scientifico

Mercoledi` 11 novembre dalle ore 15.30 alle ore 16.30 in aula E si terra` il seminario in oggetto. Il seminario e` rivolto a tutti gli studenti, soprattutto a quelli di matematica applicata e di matematica, soprattutto ancora a quelli che seguono Metodi Numerici per le Equazioni Differenziali (che tacera` dalle 15.30 alle 16.30). Di seguito l'abstract (in inglese, ma il seminario sara` in italiano).

Speakers

Jacopo Corno (Graduate School of Computational Engineering, Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany and MOX - Department of Mathematics - Politecnico di Milano) e Carlo de Falco (MOX)

Abstract

GNU Octave is a Free high-level environment for numerical computations. It provides
capabilities for the numerical solution of a wide range of linear and nonlinear problems
which may be accessed via an interpreted scripting language, mostly compatible with
that of Matlab, or via a C++ API. It also provides extensive graphics capabilities for
data visualization and manipulation.
In this talk we first present an overview of some of the most advanced, yet least
known, of the features of GNU Octave, which may be of interest to the Scientific Com-
puting community.
Then we focus, more in particular, on the tools (both currently available and under
development) in Octave and in the extension package odepkg for solving systems of Ordi-
nary Differential Equations (ODEs) and Differential Algebraic Equations (DAEs). This
part of Octave is currently undergoing a major revision process and therefore it offers
many opportunities for those interested in contributing to the project, such opportunities
will be detailed in the talk.