Schedule

The schedule is provisional and subject to change.

Lecture Date Topic Reading
/ 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
/ Floating-point number representation, Sources of error, Conditioning, stability, accuracy Solomon 2.1-2.3
Heath 1.2-1.3
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/ Linear systems, Existence and uniqueness of solutions, LU factorization Solomon 3.1-3.5
Heath 2.1-2.2, 2.4
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/ Special linear systems, positive definite matrices, sparse matrices Matrix and vector norms, sensitivity analysis Solomon 4.2-4.3
Heath 2.5, 2.3
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/ Orthogonality, orthonormal set of vectors, orthogonal matrix Projections, Gram-Schmidt, modified Gram-Schmidt, Householder transformations Solomon 5.1-5.6
Heath 3.5
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- / Review session
Thursday - MIDTERM
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/ 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
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/ Singular Value Decomposition and applications
Thursday - HOLIDAY
Solomon 7.1-7.2
Heath 4.7
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/ Nonlinear systems, root finding, fixed point iteration, Newton's method, single variable, convergence rates Solomon 8.1-8.3
Heath 5.1-5.6
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/ Systems of nonlnear equations, Newton's method for systems, Unconstrainted optimization, optimality
Thursday - HOLIDAY
Solomon 9.1
Heath 6.1-6.2.2
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/ Tuesday - Review Session
Thursday - FINAL
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