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# Weekly Schedule and Overview of Topics
## Weekly Schedule
Below you can find an outline of the weekly schedule for Weeks 1.1-1.8 and 2.1-2.8. In addition, the first lecture (Week 1 of Q1), on a Tuesday, is an exception.
## Overview of Topics
Quarter 1:
- **Week 1.1**: Landing zone / Introduction to modelling
- **Week 1.2**: Uncertainty Propagation
- **Week 1.3**: Observation Theory, Part 1
- **Week 1.4**: Observation Theory, Part 2
- **Week 1.5**: Numerical Analysis, Part 1, Numerical Analysis Techniques
- **Week 1.6**: Numerical Analysis, Part 2, Finite Difference Method
- **Week 1.7**: Continuous (univariate) Distributions
- **Week 1.8**: Multivariate Distributions
Quarter 2:
- **Week 2.1**: Finite Volume Method
- **Week 2.2**: Finite Element Method
- **Week 2.3**: Signal Processing
- **Week 2.4**: Time Series Analysis
- **Week 2.5**: Optimization
- **Week 2.6**: Machine Learning
- Holiday Break (2 weeks)
- **Week 2.7**: Extreme Value Analysis
- **Week 2.8**: Risk and Reliability
**Exams** are typically scheduled as follows:
- Q1 Exam: Monday of Week 1.10
- Q2 Exam: Thursday of Week 2.9
- Q1 Resit: Wednesday of Week 2.10
- Q2 Resit: Monday of Week 3.10
Tuesday Question Hours (10:45-12:30) are additionally scheduled during Weeks 1.9, 2.9, 2.10 and 3.9 for exam review.