Syllabus for CS 421 (Fall 2002)

Aug 30 - Sep 6 Linear algebra review; Gaussian elimination
Sep 9 - Sep 13 Triangular factors and symmetric systems
Sep 16 - Sep 20 Floating point numbers and norms
Sep 23 - Sep 27 Singularity, condition number and the SVD
Sep 30 - Oct 4 Orthogonal matrices and Gram-Schmidt factorization
Oct 7 - Oct 11 Householder reflections and least squares problems
Fall break Oct 14-15 Oct 14 - Oct 18 Eigenvalues, Lanczos and Arnoldi
Oct 21 - Oct 25 GMRES and conjugate gradient method
Oct 28 - Nov 1 Newton's method
Nov 4 - Nov 8 Constrained optimization and Lagrange multipliers
Nov 11 - Nov 15 Initial value problems
Nov 18 - Nov 22 Order of accuracy; stiff problems
Thanksgiving break Nov 27-29 Nov 25 - Nov 29 Two-point boundary value problems
Dec 2 - Dec 6 Two-point boundary value problems
Stephen A. Vavasis, Computer Science Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, vavasis@cs.cornell.edu

handed out 8/30/02