Course Announcements

12/20/11

Final Exam grades posted.

12/12/11

A clarification of the coverage of the Final Exam and the reference materials allows has been posted.

12/9/11

The solution to Problem 4 on Exam 2 has been expanded somewhat to clarify the reasoning behind the selection of the initial condition.

Exam 2 grades have been posted.

12/6/11

Reminder: Those who plan to submit an update to Program 1 must do so before the beginning of the Final Exam.

Program 5 (optional) posted.

Homework 9 and its solutions have been posted.

Solutions for Exam 2 posted.

Comments on Program 4 posted.

Pseudocode for the steepest descent algorithm and the preconditioned steepest descent algorithm added to Set 12.

12/4/11

Added extra initial condition tables for Gauss-Seidel-Newton and Newton methods to show dependence of root found on initial guess. Set 10 reposted.

12/3/11

A clarification has been made about Question 2 on the exam on the Exam information page.

12/2/11

Exam 2 has been posted.

12/1/11

Set 12 has been posted. It discusses unconstrained optimization and the application of optimization ideas to solve symmetric positive definite linear systems of equations.

11/29/11

Set 10 has been rearranged, modified slightly and reposted.

Set 11 has been posted. It discusses Quasi-Newton (Secant) methods for systems. You are not responsible for it on the exams.

The solutions to Homework 8 have been posted early to assist in your completion of Program 4.

11/28/11

Since no objections have been made the Exam 2 plan has been updated as now indicated on the Exam Information page.

A request was made to change the time of Exam 2 due to overlap with an exam in another class for which there is overlap in student population. The request is that Exam 2 be distributed on the website on the morning of Friday December 2 and due before class on Monday December 5. Any objections must be made today November 28. If none are made the change will be posted this afternoon.

Slide 42 in Set 9 modified to be clearer.

A typo in the Comments on Program 3 has been fixed and the file reposted. It is the existence of a vector v such that the transpose of L times that vector is 0 that is required. Specifically, we know that at least L^Te_1=0. The superscript T on L was missing at three points in the comments.

11/23/11

Comments on Program 3 have been posted. It is strongly recommended you study them.

11/22/11

Homework 8 posted.

11/21/11

Set 10 of notes posted. As with Set 9 it is strongly recommended you read ahead in this set and the associated sections in the Text.

Program 4 posted.

Final Exam information posted.

Typo fixed in Set 9 on p. 55 in derivative of phi at the root.

Solutions for Homework 7 posted.

11/18/11

Exam 2 information posted.

11/14/11

Set 9 of the notes posted. It is strongly recommended that you read ahead in this Set and the associated sections in the Text.

Homework 7 posted.

The due date of Program 3 has been moved to Monday November 21.

Typos were fixed in the Solutions to Homework 6. On page 3, the reordered matrix tilde(A)_1 should have -2 as its (4,4) element. Note the determinant computation uses the correct value. On page 4, the reordered matrix tilde(A) should have elements (2,4) and (2,5) of -1 and 3 respectively. Note this does not affect the subsequent determinants or eigenvalue discussion. The corrected solutions have been posted.

11/8/11

Solutions for Homework 6 posted.

Program 3 posted.

Typo corrected on slide discussing iteration matrix of SGS method in Set 7 (definite replaced by semidefinite).

Richardson's Family form of methods moved from Set 8 into Set 7.

11/5/11

Slides added to Set 8 and reposted.

11/1/11

Exam 1 grades posted.

Some clarifying comments were added to the solutions for Exam 1.

10/31/11

Homework 6 posted.

10/28/11

Exam 1 solutions posted.

10/25/11

Sets 7 and 8 have been posted.

Exam 1 has been posted.

10/21/11

Typo fixed in Set 5 on slide about cancellation using second ordering of sum

Program 1 solutions may be revised and turned in for an adjustment of credit. This can be turned in any time before the last day of class.

10/19/11

Scores for Program 1 have been emailed.

The lowest program score will be ignored when assigning the semester grade.

10/17/11

As requested, the due date for Program 2 has been extended to Monday 24 October 2011.

10/14/11

Set 6 of class notes posted.

Solutions for Homework 5 posted.

10/12/11

Program 2 posted.

Homework 5 posted. Solutions will be posted early (this Friday to aid in preparing for Exam 1)

10/10/11

Exam 1 information posted.

Set 5 of class notes posted.

10/7/11

Solutions for Homeworks 3 and 4 posted.

10/3/11

A new slide was inserted into Set 4 with a table showing the encoding of integers (new slide 6)

9/30/11

Homework 4 posted.

Set 4 of the class notes has been posted.

9/27/11

Program 1 posted.

9/26/11

Typo in the solution of Homework 1 Problem 1.1.c.iii fixed and reposted.

Set 3 of the class notes has been posted.

Homework 3 has been posted.

9/21/11

Solutions for Homework 2 have been posted.

9/14/11

Homework 2 posted.

9/12/11

Solutions for Homework 1 posted.

9/6/11

Set 2 of the class notes has been posted.

Homework 1 posted.

8/29/11

The class syllabus has been posted.

Set 0 of the class notes has been posted.

Set 1 of the class notes has been posted.