CS475/CM375 - Schedule

This is a tentative schedule only.  As the course progresses, the schedule will be adjusted.

Lecture
Date
Topics
Complementary Readings
Notes
1
Sept 14
Introduction, LU factorization
[TB] Chapter 1, pages 1-10
[TB] Chapter 20, pages 147-152

2
Sept 16
1D, 2D Laplacian
[Saad] Chapter 2

3
Sept 21
Cholesky factorization, tridiagonal, band matrices [TB] Chapter 23, pages 172-176 A1 out
no lecture
Sept 23



4
Sept 28
Sparse Gaussian Elimination, graph representation
[Saad] Sect 3.1-3.2

5
Sept 30
Ordering methods
[Saad] Sect 3.3
6
Oct 5
Stability
[TB] Chapter 22, pages 163-170

7
Oct 7
Image denoising


8
Oct 12
Iterative methods
[Saad] Chapter 4
A1 due
A2 out
9
Oct 14
Steepest descent and conjugate gradient
[TB] Chapter 38, pages 293-301
[Saad] Sect 5.3 and 6.7

10
Oct 19
Least squares problems
[TB] Chapter 11

11
Oct 21
Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization
[TB] Chapter 8

12
Oct 26
QR factorization
[TB] Chapter 7

13
Oct 28
Householder transformation
[TB] Chapter 10

14
Nov 2
Eigenvalue problems, Schur form [TB] Chapter 24-25
A2 due
A3 out
15
Nov 4
Reduction to Hessenberg [TB] Chapter 26

Midterm Nov 9



16
Nov 11
Power iteration, inverse iteration
[TB] Chpater 27

17
Nov 16
QR method with shifts, Google PageRank
[TB] Chapter 28-29

18
Nov 18
Singular value decomposition
[TB] Chapter 31
A3 due
A4 out
19
Nov 23
Bidiagonalization


20
Nov 25
Search engine using SVD


21
Nov 30
Convergence of iterative methods


22
Dec 2
Preconditioning techniques

A4 due