Syllabus for CS 621 (Fall 1997)

Aug 29 - Sep 5: Linear algebra review; Gaussian elimination

Sep 8 - Sep 12: Triangular factors and symmetric systems

Sep 15 - Sep 19: Floating point numbers and norms

Sep 22 - Sep 26: Singularity, condition number and the SVD (Prelim 1 this week)

Sep 29 - Oct 3: Orthogonal matrices and Gram-Schmidt factorization

Oct 6 - Oct 10: Householder reflections and least squares problems

Oct 13 - Oct 17: Symmetric eigenvalue problem (fall break this week)

Oct 20 - Oct 24: Symmetric eigenvalue problem

Oct 27 - Oct 31: Unsymmetric eigenvalue problem

Nov 3 - Nov 7: Iterative methods (Prelim 2 this week)

Nov 10 - Nov 14: Iterative methods

Nov 17 - Nov 21: Iterative methods

Nov 24 - Nov 28: Weighted least squares (Thanksgiving break this week)

Dec 1 - Dec 5: Sparse Cholesky factorization

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

handed out 8/29/97