Syllabus
The following is a tentative syllabus for the course.
| week # | Brief Description |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Numerical algorithms and errors (Ascher and Grief Ch 1 & 2) |
| Weeks 2-3 | Nonlinear equations in one variable (Ascher and Grief Ch 3) |
| Week 4 | Iterative methods (Ascher and Grief Ch 7) |
| Week 5 | Eigenvalues and Singular Values (Ascher and Grief Ch 8) |
| Week 6 | Nonlinear Sytems and Optimization (Ascher and Grief Ch 9) |
| Week 7-9 | Monte Carlo computations |
| Weeks 10 | Course wrap up and individual project presentations (via ZOOM) |