MA/CSC 580 - Numerical Analysis I

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Fall 2023 Tentative Course Schedule

Week 1

  • 08/22 Lecture 1: Welcome and Course Overview; Review of Linear Algebra
  • 08/24 Lecture 2: Review of Linear Algebra, Vector Norms

Week 2

  • 08/29 Lecture 3: Matrix Norms
  • 08/31 Lecture 4: Matrix Norms II, Errors and Floating-Point System

Week 3

  • 09/05 Lecture 5: Conditioning of Subtraction, Banach Lemma
  • 09/07 Lecture 6: Conditioning of matrix inverse, linear systems

** Homework 1 due Tuesday

Week 4

  • 09/12 Lecture 7: Conditioning of linear systems, LU factorization
  • 09/14 Lecture 8: Pivoted LU Factorization

Week 5

  • 09/19 Wellness Day. No Class.
  • 09/21 Lecture 9: Cholesky factorization

** Homework 2 due Monday

Week 6

  • 09/26 Lecture 10: Sparsity, Least Squares: Normal Equations
  • 09/28 Lecture 11: QR factorization; Givens

Week 7

  • 10/03 Lecture 12: Gram-Schmidt; Householder; Summary of QR
  • 10/05 Lecture 13: SVD

** Homework 3 due Thursday

Week 8

  • 10/10 Fall break; No class
  • 10/12 Lecture 14: SVD II; Review

Week 9

  • 10/17 Midterm Exam
  • 10/19 Lecture 15: SVD and Least Squares. Sensitivity of Least Squares.

** Homework 4 due Friday

Week 10

  • 10/24 Lecture 16: SVD III
  • 10/26 Lecture 17: Eigenvalues and eigenvectors, Eigendecompositions

Week 11

  • 10/31 Lecture 18: Power methods
  • 11/02 Lecture 19: Rayleigh Quotient, QR iteration

Week 12

  • 11/07 Lecture 20: Stationary Iterative Methods
  • 11/09 Lecture 21: Krylov subspaces; Arnoldi; GMRES

** Homework 5 due Wednesday

Week 13

  • 11/14 Lecture 22: GMRES, Conjugate Gradient
  • 11/16 Lecture 23: Conjugate Gradient II

Week 14

  • 11/21 Lecture 24: Preconditioning
  • 11/23 Thanksgiving Holiday; No class

Week 15

  • 11/28 Lecture 25: Nonlinear Equations, Newton’s method
  • 11/30 Lecture 26: Special topic: Intro to Deep Learning

** Homework 6 due Friday

Week 16

  • 12/05 Lecture 27: Review

** 12/06: Reading Day

Final Exam: Thursday December 7, 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm.