Tentative Course Schedule - Last Revised 01/29/08

WEEK DATE TOPICS
1 1/21 Scientific Computing - Goals and Fundamentals (Chap 1)
2 1/26 Scalar Nonlinear Equs (Chap 5, secs 1, (2), 4 ?)
3 2/02 Linear Equations (Chap 2, secs 1-4, up to 2.4.7)
4 2/09 Linear Equations (Chap 2, secs 1-4, up to 2.4.7)
5 2/16 Nonlinear Equations -- Systems (Chap 5, secs 4-6)
6 2/23 MIDTERM - Date to be announced, but probably in Week of Feb 23
6 2/23 Polynomial Interpolation (Chap. 7, secs 1-3)
7 3/02 Splines (Chap 7. sec 4)
8 3/09 Numerical Integration and Quadrature (Chap 8, secs 1-4,7)
--- 3/16 Spring Break
9 3/23 Linear Least Squares (Chap 3, secs 1, 2, 4)
10 3/30 ... continued
11 4/06 MIDTERM - Date to be announced, but probably in Week of Apr 06
11 4/06 Uncontrained Optimization Problems (Chap 6, esp. secs 1-5)
12 4/13 ... continued
13 4/20 Constrained Optimization Problems (Chap 6, sec 7)
14 4/27 Finish Constrained Optimization. Fast Fourier Transform (Chap 12, secs 1-3)
15 5/04 Review.
16 5/11 (tentative) FINAL (date to be confirmed)

Back to class home page.