Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Grow personally and professionally
• Have developed, in the context of chemistry, generic skills that are applicable in many other contexts, particularly in the use of the English language, scientific programming, and safety and risk in the laboratory

Learning Outcomes of UE

Acquire basic practical skills for the numerical solution of mathematical problems, especially in the context of modern chemistry

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

The course aims to train the students in the use of numerical tools, through the analysis and solution of cases of real interest in chemistry, following a "learn-by-practice" approach. In detail, the course will propose four pillars. Each pillar aims at solving a mathematical problem with direct applications in chemistry:
- statistical treatment of chemical measurements
- treatment of vectors and matrices in the 3d space for the analysis of molecular structures
- diagonalization of hermitian matrices for the numerical solution of the model of molecular orbitals. 
- numerical solution of one-dimensional differential equation for kinetic reaction models.

Prior Experience

General knowledge in the field of information and communication technology