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gibson:teaching:fall-2016:iam961:outline

IAM 961 course outline

We will follow Trefethen and Bau's text pretty closely, chapter by chapter. Here's a slightly different conceptual organization of the course than provided by Trefethen and Bau's table of contents, with rough dates. By the end of the semester, you should have a pretty good grasp of each of the topics mentioned herein.

Fundamentals, Aug 31 – Sept 23

  • linear algebra review: mat-vec mult, inverses, rank, span, etc.
  • orthogonality, norms, SVD
  • Trefethen lectures 1 – 5

Direct methods, Sept 28 – Oct 21

  • QR factorization: Gram-Schmidt and modified Gram-Schmidt algorithms, Householder algorithm, least squares
  • conditioning, stability, and accuracy
  • LU decomposition (a.k.a. Gaussian elimination), pivoting
  • Trefethen chapters 6-23

Iterative methods, Oct 26 – Nov 25

  • eigenvalue algorithms: Rayleigh quotient, inverse iteration, QR algorithm, shifts
  • SVD algorithms
  • Krylov subspace methods: Arnoldi iteration, GMRES, and conjugate gradients
  • Trefethen chapters 24-40

Optimization, (time permitting) Nov 30 – Dec 14

  • Newton's method, trust-region modifications
gibson/teaching/fall-2016/iam961/outline.txt · Last modified: 2016/09/02 07:42 by gibson