MATH 270A: NUMERICAL LINEAR ALGEBRA

Instructor: Randolph E. Bank

Fall Quarter 2017

Syllabus

Lecture Topics Remarks
Week 0
Fri. 9/29 Stability Analysis
of Linear Systems (3.1)
 
Week 1
Mon. 10/2 Solution of Triangular
Systems (3.2-3.3)
 
Wed. 10/4 Triangular Factorization
(3.3-3.4)
 
Fri. 10/6 Pivoting (3.5)
Iterative refinement (3.12)
 
Week 2
Mon. 10/9 Gram Schmidt
QR factorization
 
Wed. 10/11 QR factorization
(3.3.4) and (5.6.1)
 
Fri. 10/13 QR factorization
(3.3.4) and (5.6.1)
 
Week 3
Mon. 10/16 Linear Least Squares
(3.13)
 
Wed. 10/18 Linear Least Squares
(3.13)
 
Fri. 10/20 Singular Value
Decomposition (1.9)
 
Week 4
Mon. 10/23 Eigenvalue Problem
Background (1.7-1.8)
 
Wed. 10/25 Schur Decomposition
Power Method (5.3)
 
Fri. 10/27 Rayleigh Quotient
Iteration
 
Week 5
Mon. 10/30 Hessenberg Form
QR Algorithm (5.6)-(5.7)
 
Wed. 11/1 QR Algorithm
Sturm Sequences (5.10)
 
Fri. 11/3 Sturm Sequences (5.10)
Computing the SVD (5.8)
 
Week 6
Mon. 11/6 Sparse Matrices (3.9)  
Wed. 11/8 Graph Model
for Gaussian Elimination
  Sparse Matrix Paper0
Fri. 11/10   Veterans Day Holiday
Week 7
Mon. 11/13 Fill-in and
Ordering Algorithms
  Sparse Matrix Paper1
Wed. 11/15 Iterative Methods
(4.1-4.2)
 
Fri. 11/17 Iterative Methods
(4.1-4.2)
 
Week 8
Mon. 11/20 Work Estimates
Convergence
 
Wed. 11/22    
Fri. 11/24   Thanksgiving Holiday
Week 9
Mon. 11/27 Conjugate Gradients
(4.3)
 
Wed. 11/29 Conjugate Gradients
(4.3)
 
Fri. 12/1 Preconditioned
Conjugate Gradients (4.3.5)
 
Week 10
Mon. 12/4 Lanczos and
Biconjugate Gradients (4.4.3)
 
Wed. 12/6 Lanczos and
Biconjugate Gradients (4.5)
  BiCG Paper
Fri. 12/8 Review  
Finals Week
Mon. 12/11 Office Hours 2:00-4:00  
Tues. 12/12 Final Exam, 11:30-2:30