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Experimental Design for Materials Development

Instructor: Prof. Kristofer Reyes ([email protected])

Course time and location: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:30 - 10:50 AM, Baldy 126

Office hours and location: Mondays 2 PM, Bell 134

Course Website: www.csms.io/mdi-508-s25

Textbook: None. Refer to assigned reading and lecture notes. Some commonly referred to sources that we shall use throughout the class and made available online are:

• Bayesian Data Analysis, by Andrew Gelman, John Carlin, Hal Stern, David Dunson, Aki Vehtari, and Donald Rubin. [GELMAN]
• Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, by Christopher M. Bishop [BISHOP]
• Introduction to Uncertainty Quantification, by Tim. J Sullivan [SULLIVAN]
• Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction, by Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto [SUTTON]

The bracketed codes after these books are the abbreviations I will use to reference them.

Other Resources:

MDI508 S25 Cheat Sheet

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