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 13
Introduction, LU factorization (Lecture slides)
[TB] Chapter 1, pages 1-10
[TB] Chapter 20, pages 147-152

2
Sept 15
Cholesky factorization, tridiagonal, band matrices (Lecture slides) [TB] Chapter 12. pages 172-176

3
Sept 20
1D, 2D Laplacian (Lecture slides)
[Saad] Chapter 2
A1 out
4
Sept 22
Sparse Gaussian Elimination, graph representation (Lecture slides)
[Saad] Sect 3.1-3.2
5
Sept 27
Ordering methods (Lecture slides)
[Saad] Sect 3.3
6
Sept 29
Stability and image denoising (Lecture slides)
[TB] Chapter 22, pages 163-170
7
Oct 4
Image denoising and iterative methods (Lecture slides)


8
Oct 6
Iterative methods and steepest descent (Lecture slides)
[Saad] Chapter 4
A1 due
A2 out
9
Oct 11
Conjugate gradient (Lecture slides)
[TB] Chapter 38, pages 293-301
[Saad] Sect 5.3 and 6.7

10
Oct 13
Least squares problems (Lecture slides)
[TB] Chapter 11
11
Oct 18
QR Factorization and Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization (Lecture slides)
[TB] Chapters 7, 8
12
Oct 20
Householder reflections and Givens rotations (Lecture slides)
[TB] Chapter 10
13
Oct 25
Singular value decomposition and conditioning (Lecture slides)
[TB] Chapters 4, 12 A2 due
A3 out
14
Oct 27
Eigenvalue problems (Lecture slides) [TB] Chapter 24, 25, 26
15
Nov 1
Rayleigh Quotient Algorithm and QR Algorithm (Lecture slides)
[TB] Chapter 27, 28
Midterm
Nov 3



17
Nov 8
QR algorithm and reduction to Hessenberg (Lecture slides)
[TB] Chapter 28
18
Nov 10
QR method with shifts, Google PageRank (Lecture slides)
[TB] Chapter 29
Midterm review
Nov 15


A3 due
A4 out
20
Nov 17
Singular value decomposition (Lecture slides)
[TB] Chapter 31

21
Nov 22
Bidiagonalization, SVD Image Compression (Lecture slides)
[TB] Chapter 31

22
Nov 24
Search engine using SVD (Lecture slides)


23
Nov 29
Convergence of iterative methods (Lecture slides)


24
Dec 1
Convergence of conjugate gradient (Lecture slides)

A4 due