Syllabus for CS 421 (Fall 2000)

Aug 25 - Sep 1: Linear algebra review; Gaussian elimination

Sep 4 - Sep 8: Triangular factors and symmetric systems

Sep 11 - Sep 15: Floating point numbers and norms

Sep 18 - Sep 22: Singularity, condition number and the SVD (Prelim 1 this week)

Sep 25 - Sep 29: Orthogonal matrices and Gram-Schmidt factorization

Oct 2 - Oct 6: Householder reflections and least squares problems

Oct 9 - Oct 13: Eigenvalues, Lanczos and Arnoldi (fall break this week)

Oct 16 - Oct 20: GMRES and conjugate gradient method

Oct 23 - Oct 27: Newton's method

Oct 30 - Nov 3: Constrained optimization and Lagrange multipliers (Prelim 2 this week)

Nov 6 - Nov 10: Initial value problems

Nov 13 - Nov 17: Order of accuracy; stiff problems

Nov 20 - Nov 24: Two-point boundary value problems (Thanksgiving break this week)

Nov 27 - Dec 1: Two-point boundary value problems

Stephen A. Vavasis, Computer Science Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, vavasis@cs.cornell.edu

handed out 8/25/00