** Mathematics 471 CALENDAR **

• Read the assigned section(s) in the text.
• Prepare notes summarizing the Algorithms, Analysis and Software discussed in the assigned reading.
• Run the M-Files that appear in the reading assignment, and observe what they do.

WEEK 1	8-12 January

		Floating Point Arithmetic; Roots of Nonlinear Equations

	What every computer scientist should know about floating-point arithmetic
		Retrieve this article, and read §§ 1.1-2.


WEEK 2	15-19 January

Mon 15	     Martin Luther King Holiday



WEEK 3	22-26 January

Thu 25		FIRST HOMEWORK DUE (PostScript) (Acrobat)



WEEK 4	29 January - 2 February

		Linear Systems of Equations - Direct Methods
		References: AMATH 352, Scientific Computing.1


WEEK 5	5-9 February



WEEK 6	12-16 February

Tue 13	SECOND HOMEWORK DUE (PostScript) (Acrobat)

Thu 15	     MIDTERM EXAM I
		1998 Midterm Exam [PostScript] [Acrobat]



WEEK 7	19-23 February

	Linear Systems of Equations - Iterative Methods
	Jacobi, Gauss-Seidel, SOR


WEEK 8	26 February - 2 March

	Linear Systems of Equations - Iterative Methods
	Conjugate Gradient



WEEK 9	5-9 March

Thu 8	THIRD HOMEWORK DUE (PostScript) (Acrobat)


		
MARCH 12-16 	***SPRING BREAK***
		


WEEK 10	19-23 March

		Nonlinear Systems of Equations



WEEK 11	26-30 March

		Computation of Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors



WEEK 12	2-6 April

Tue  3		FOURTH HOMEWORK DUE  (PostScript) (Acrobat)

Thu  5	     MIDTERM EXAM II



WEEK 13	9-13 April

		Linear Least Squares Problems

	

WEEK 14	16-20 April



WEEK 15	23-27 April

 National TV Turnoff Week April 23-29  

 


Thu 26		FIFTH HOMEWORK DUE  (PostScript) (Acrobat)

                                      



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EXAM WEEK	30 Apr - 4 May

Thu  3		Final Exam 9:45-11:45 AM.
		1998 Final Exam [PostScript] [Acrobat]

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Document last modified Wed Apr 4 2001