CSCI-3656 Numerical Computation

Quick info from the Syllabus

CU Boulder: CSCI 3656 (Spring 2020)

Meeting Time: Tue/Thu 9:30-10:45pm in HALE 230

Office Hours

Jed: Mon/Fri 10-11am, Thu 2-3:15pm, or by appointment. ECOT 824.
Sourav (GSS): Friday 3-4pm in CSEL.
Nithin (GSS): Wed 2:30-3:30pm in CSEL.

Follow this calendar for updates/exceptions

Activities

2020-01-14: First day activity
2020-01-16
2020-01-21: Homework 1: Rootfinding
2020-01-23: Activity: Newton
2020-01-28: Activity: Conditioning
2020-01-30: Activity: Stability
2020-02-04: Canceled due to weather
2020-02-06: Activity: Geometry of Linear Transformations
2020-02-11: Moodle "quiz" on projections
2020-02-13
2020-02-18: Homework 2: QR factorization of polynomials, due 2020-02-28
2020-02-20: Activity: QR
2020-02-25: Resources: LAPACK dgeqrf to compute QR factorization in-place, dormqr to apply action of Q to a matrix C in-place. Compare Julia's qr, which is simultaneously a full and reduced factorization, with Python's, which flattens to naive representation of Q.
2020-02-27: Quiz and Midterm study guide
2020-03-03
2020-03-05 Midterm
2020-03-10: Activity: low-rank matrices
2020-03-12
2020-03-17: Activity: polynomial interpolation Recorded Zoom
2020-03-19: Activity: piecewise interpolation Recorded Zoom
2020-03-31: Activity: bias-variance tradeoff
2020-04-02: Introduction of regression as optmization; assign reading for next class: Numerical Differentiation (check your email for access code)
2020-04-07: Activity: numerical differentiation
2020-04-09: Activity: regression
2020-04-14: Individual Project and Activity: surface projections
2020-04-16
2020-04-21: Activity: integration
2020-04-23
2020-04-28
2020-04-30 (last day of classes) Activity: Avalanche control
Final projects (team presentations and peer evaluation in groups)

Git and Jupyter

Course materials and assignments are maintained on GitHub. You will need to create a GitHub account (free) if you don't already have one. Please submit issues in the class repository to report problems or ask questions.

Moodle

Please enroll in this class on Moodle.