Calculating with sets: Interval methods in Julia

Workshop at JuliaCon 2020

These are materials for the live, online workshop "Calculating with sets: Interval methods in Julia " at JuliaCon 2020, which will take place on Monday 27 July, 2020 at 2pm UTC.

For access, please register for a free ticket at https://juliacon.org/2020

Setup

• Install the latest release (1.4.2) of Julia from here

• Run Julia. At the Julia prompt, add the packages we will need as follows (copy and paste):

    julia> using Pkg
  
    julia> Pkg.add("IJulia")
    julia> Pkg.add("Plots")
    julia> Pkg.add("Interact")
    julia> Pkg.add("IntervalArithmetic")
    julia> Pkg.add("IntervalRootFinding")
    julia> Pkg.add("IntervalConstraintProgramming")
    julia> Pkg.add("IntervalOptimisation")
  

• Once those packages have finished installing (which will install a collection of other packages that these depend on), type

    julia> using IJulia
    julia> notebook()
  

  This should launch the Jupyter notebook in your browser; this is a web application that provides a computational notegbook interface.

• Copy the notebook files (ending in .ipynb) from this repository to your computer by git clone-ing the repository or downloading the Zip file (hit the green button which says Code).

• Navigate inside the file browser in the Jupyter notebook to the place on your computer where the files you just downloaded are. Load notebook number 1!

Installation problems

• If you have installation problems you can also view the notebooks online at nbviewer and use e.g. the online service repl.it to write Julia code.

• If you are on the live call, you can try to describe your problem and ask for help via the chat; hopefully other attendees will be able to assist.

License

Code in this repository is licensed under the MIT license, and text under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license. Copyright David P. Sanders 2020

Author

David P. Sanders, Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (National University of Mexico, UNAM) & Department of Mathematics, MIT.