Schedule

The schedule is provisional and subject to change.

Lecture Date Topic Reading
1 9/23 Linear algebra review: span, linear dependence, bases, matrices, matrix-vector multiplication, matrix-matrix multiplication, column space, rank, outer product matrices Solomon 1.1-1.3
2 9/28 Floating-point number representation, Sources of error, Conditioning, stability, accuracy Solomon 2.1-2.3
Heath 1.2-1.3
3 9/30
4 10/5 Linear systems, Existence and uniqueness of solutions, LU factorization Solomon 3.1-3.5
Heath 2.1-2.2, 2.4
5 10/7
6 10/12 Special linear systems, positive definite matrices, sparse matrices Matrix and vector norms, sensitivity analysis Solomon 4.2-4.3
Heath 2.5, 2.3
7 10/14
8 10/19 Orthogonality, orthonormal set of vectors, orthogonal matrix Projections, Gram-Schmidt, modified Gram-Schmidt, Householder transformations Solomon 5.1-5.6
Heath 3.5
9 10/21
- 10/26 Review session
Thursday - MIDTERM
- 10/28
10 11/2 Eigenvectors, characteristic polynomial, Power iteration, inverse power iteration, shifting QR iteration, Krylov subspace methods Solomon 6.1-6.5
Heath 4.1, 4.4-4.5
11 11/4
12 11/9 Singular Value Decomposition and applications
Thursday - HOLIDAY
Solomon 7.1-7.2
Heath 4.7
- 11/11
13 11/16 Nonlinear systems, root finding, fixed point iteration, Newton's method, single variable, convergence rates Solomon 8.1-8.3
Heath 5.1-5.6
14 11/18
15 11/23 Systems of nonlnear equations, Newton's method for systems, Unconstrainted optimization, optimality
Thursday - HOLIDAY
Solomon 9.1
Heath 6.1-6.2.2
- 11/25
16 11/30 Tuesday - Review Session
Thursday - FINAL
17 12/2