This schedule is tentative and subject to change.

Week Date Topic Reading
1 1/24 Introduction Heath 1.1, Notes, Slides
1/26 Intro to errors and condition numbers Heath 1.2-1.3, Notes
2 1/31 Floating point Notes, Goldberg floating point article
2/2 SNOWED OUT Notes
3 2/7 Matrices, vectors, MATLAB Notes
2/9 Norms and condition numbers Notes
4 2/14 Gaussian elimination Notes
2/16 Gaussian elimination Notes
5 2/21 Least squares Notes
2/22 First prelim!
2/23 Least squares and SVD Notes
6 2/28 Nonlinear equations Notes
3/2 Nonlinear equations Guest lecture: Van Loan
7 3/7 SNOWED OUT
3/9 Nonlinear equations and optimization Notes
8 3/14 1D optimization Notes
3/16 Higher-dimensional optimization Notes
9 3/21 Spring break
3/23 Spring break
10 3/28 Interpolation Notes
3/30 Interpolation Notes
11 4/4 Differentiation and integration Notes
4/6 Numerical integration Notes
4/7 Second prelim!
12 4/11 Special integrands; ODE solvers Notes
4/13 Consistency and 0-stability Notes
13 4/18 Runge-Kutta and multistep ODE solvers Notes, The MATLAB ODE Suite
4/20 ODE solving examples Notes
14 4/25 Random numbers and simulation Notes
4/27 Random numbers and simulation Notes
15 5/2 Variance reduction Notes
5/4 Review Notes