Numerical Linear Algebra

Math 625 / CSI 740

Spring 2007


The following table contains the schedule for the course. It will basically cover Chapters I through V of the textbook. This page will be updated regularly throughout the semester.

Week Date Lectures, Notes
1 01/22 Review of Matrices and Linear Maps Lectures 1, 2, notes
2 01/29 Norms, Singular Value Decomposition Lectures 3, 4, notes
3 02/05 No class!
4 02/12 No class!
5 02/19 Singular Value Decomposition, Projectors Lectures 5, 6, notes
6 02/26 QR factorizations, Gram-Schmidt Method Lectures 7, 8, 9, notes, Matlab session, clgs.m
7 03/05 Householder Triangularization, Least Squares Lectures 9, 10, 11, notes, Matlab session, mgs.m
03/12 No class! (Spring Break)
8 03/19 Conditioning, Stability Lectures 12, 13, 14, notes, Matlab session, hello.m, house.m, formQ.m, lspoly.m
9 03/26 Stability of Specific Algorithms Lectures 15, 16, 17, notes, interpequi.m, plotpoly.m
10 04/02 Conditioning and Stability of Least Squares Lectures 18, 19, notes
11 04/09 Gaussian Elimination Lectures 20, 21, 22, notes
12 04/16 Cholesky Factorization, Eigenvalue Problems Lectures 23, 24, 25, notes
13 04/23 First Eigenvalue Algorithms Lectures 25, 26, 27, notes, Matlab session, deflate.m, rayleigh.m
14 04/30 QR Algorithm for Eigenvalues Lectures 28, 29, notes, Matlab session
15 05/07 Further Eigenvalue Algorithms, SVD Computation Lectures 30, 31, notes, Matlab session, jacobi.m, jacobi2.m, jacobireduce.m
16 05/14 Final Exam 7:30-10:15pm


Thomas Wanner, May 7, 2007.