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