PHYSICS C170M · PHYS C170MMachine Learning for Physical Sciences Laboratory
Physics · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
(Formerly numbered 170M.) Project-based course designed for students with no previous experience in machine learning to learn about methods and algorithms in machine learning and their application to scientific problems in physical sciences. Development of experience in compilation, analysis, and cleaning of data. Machine learning topics include classification, regression, dimensionality reduction, clustering, and kernel methods. Concurrently scheduled with course C270M.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 1A, 1B, 1C (or 1AH, 1BH, 1CH), Mathematics 32A, 33A, or equivalent. Preparation: some experience in programming using Python.
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- · mixed comma-level AND/OR in "courses 1A, 1B, 1C (or 1AH, 1BH, 1CH), Mathematics 32A, 33A, or equivalent" — grouping is a best reading
BruinTree reads · Preparation
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Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
PHYSICS C170M
- PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
- PHYSICS 1AHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics (Honors)
- MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
- MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields
- PHYSICS 1BHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields (Honors)
- MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
- PHYSICS 1CPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fieldsanother path to it
- PHYSICS 1CHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity (Honors)
- MATH 33BDifferential Equations
8 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 38 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.