Lectures
Week 15 (April 14+16, 2009)Introduction to Linear Programming
Reading: Sections 13.1-13-3 and 14.1, 14.2 in
J. Nocedal and S. J. Wright: Numerical Optimization. Week 14 (April 7+9, 2009)Solution of systems of nonlinear equations
Reading: Chapter 11 in
J. Nocedal and S. J. Wright: Numerical Optimization. Week 13 (March 31, 2009 (Thursday April 2 is spring recess))Nonlinear Least Squares
Reading: Chapter 10 in
J. Nocedal and S. J. Wright: Numerical Optimization. Week 12 (March 24+26, 2009)Solution of the trust-region subproblem; introduction to quasi-Newton methods
Reading: Chapters 4 and 6 in
J. Nocedal and S. J. Wright: Numerical Optimization. Week 11 (March 17+19, 2009)Line search methods and trust-region methods
Reading: Chapters 3 and 4 in
J. Nocedal and S. J. Wright: Numerical Optimization. Week 10 (March 10+12, 2009)Local convergence of Newton and Newton-type methods, line search methods.
Reading: Chapter 3 in
J. Nocedal and S. J. Wright: Numerical Optimization. Week 9Spring BreakWeek 8 (Feb 24+26, 2009)Overview of methods for unconstrained optimization, convergence of sequences, local convergence of Newton and Newton-type methods.
Reading: Section 2.2, 3.3, 7.1 in
J. Nocedal and S. J. Wright: Numerical Optimization. Week 7 (Feb 17+19, 2009)Note: This week we will have an extra lecture on Thursday 2/19, 4pm-5:30pm in KH 105Convergence analysis of Krylov subspace methods, preconditioning. Introduction to unconstrained optimization
Reading: Lectures 38, 35, 40 in
Lloyd N. Trefethen and David Bau, III: Numerical Linear Algebra. Week 6 (Feb 10+12, 2009)Note: This week we will have an extra lecture on Thursday 2/12, 4pm-5:30pm in KH 105The conjugate gradient method; convergence analysis of Krylov subspace methods
Reading: Lectures 38 and 35 in
Lloyd N. Trefethen and David Bau, III: Numerical Linear Algebra. Week 5 (Feb 3+5, 2009)The Arnoldi iteration; GMRES; Lanczos
Reading: Lectures 33, 35, 36 in
Lloyd N. Trefethen and David Bau, III: Numerical Linear Algebra. Week 4 (Jan. 27 + 29, 2009)No class. Classes will be made up in February.Week 3 (Jan. 20 + 22, 2009)Introduction to Krylov subspace methods; background.
Reading: Lectures 32 in
Lloyd N. Trefethen and David Bau, III: Numerical Linear Algebra.
Week 2 (Jan. 13 + 15, 2009)Convergence results for Jacobi, Gauss-Seidel, SOR; Application to linear system arising from finite difference discretizations of differential equations.
Reading: Section 4.2.3 - 4.2.5 in
Y. Saad: Iterative methods for sparse linear systems
Week 1 (Jan. 6 + 8, 2009)Basic iterative methods; Jacobi, Gauss-Seidel, SOR; Convergence of basic iterative methods.
Reading: Section 4.1.1 - 4.2.1 in
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