Schedule

The schedule is tenative and subject to change. The up-to-date schedule can be found here.

Class Date Topic Reading Assigned Due
1 9/27 Preliminaries - Sources of error - Floating point - Well-posedness Heath, Chapter 1
2 10/2 Solving linear systems - Existence and Uniqueness of solutions Heath, Chapter 2 HW1
3 10/4 Vector and Matrix Norms - Sensitivity and conditioning Heath, Chapter 2
4 10/9 Matrix condition number - Solving linear systems - SPD systems - Cholesky factorization Heath, Sections 2.3.3, 2.3.4, 2.4.7, 2.5 HW1
5 10/11 Orthogonality - Projectors - SVD - Overdetermined systems Heath Sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.6 HW2
6 10/16 no class
7 10/18 Least squares and QR decomposition Heath Sections 3.4, 3.5 HW2
8 10/23 Eigenvalues and eigenvectors Heath Sections 4.1, 4.2, 4.4, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.5.4, 4.5.5
9 10/25 Nonlinear Equations Heath Sections 5.1-5.5.3
10 10/30 Nonlinear Equations (cont.) Heath Sections 5.5.4, 5.5.7, 5.6.1-5.6.3
11 11/1 no class
12 11/6 Midterm 1
13 11/8 Optimization - unconstrained - one-dimensional Heath Sections 6.1, 6.2.2., 6.3, 6.4.1, 6.4.3 HW4
14 11/13 Optimization - multi-dimensional Heath Sections, 6.5.2-6.5.6
15 11/15 Conjugate Gradients An Introduction to the Conjugate Gradient Method Without the Agonizing Pain by Jonathan Richard Shewchuk HW4
16 11/20 Polynomial Interpolation Heath, Sections 7.3.1-7.3.3, 7.4
17 11/22 no class
18 11/27 Numerical Integration and Differentiation Heath Sections 8.1, 8.2, 8.3.1, 8.3.3, 8.3.6, 8.4.3, 8.4.4, 8.6.1, 8.7 HW5
19 11/29 Numerical ODEs Heath Sections 9.1-9.3.2
20 12/4 Midterm 2 HW5
21 12/6 Review
22 TBA Final