Course Work and Grading Policy for CAAM 551
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Course work  will consist of written exercises or short  matlab
codes.  These will be assigned roughly every two weeks. 

Occasionally, these may be pledged assignments.   

There will no examinations.

I will also ask you to do one major computing project.  This will 
be assigned during the middle third of the semester and based upon
the material covered on iterative methods for large linear systems
of equations.  

The project will involve a significant computational experiment 
and a thorough presentation of results through a written report.
Equal weight will be given to the writing and to the quality of
the mathematics and computational work.

The written project will be reviewed.  Suggestions for improvement
will be made and then you will be required to turn in a final
re-written version.  This assignment will have due dates specified for first and
second versions.  NO LATE PAPERS WILL BE ACCEPTED.

All other assignments will also have due dates specified.  You will 
be expected to turn assignments in on the due dates.   Late
assignments will be accepted up to the next lecture following
the due date and will not be accepted after that.  There will 
be a 10% penalty for a late paper.

Regular attendance and class participation is essential.  A
considerable portion of the course content will be conveyed
through the lectures.

Honor Code Policy:  You are welcome to discuss the standard
           exercises with other members of the class.  However
           the final solution, computer codes and writeup must 
           be your own work.   No collaboration will be allowed
           on pledged assignments.  The major computer/writing
           project will have specific instructions gi

Grading:  The standard written exercises will be worth 60 %, 
          class participation will be 5%, and the computing/writing 
          project will be 35% of the final grade.   

          I realize that some of you are taking this course to obtain 
          some grasp of the material to use elsewhere in computational 
          work associated with a scientific or engineering discipline.  
          Others will be doing research specifically on developing and 
          analyzing numerical methods.  I want to try to accommodate 
          both goals.  Even if you are not planning to do research in 
          computational mathematics, I think you need to do some 
          exercises and get some experience with proof techniques to 
          grasp the material.  However, basic understanding of the 
          methods, how and why they work, and how to implement and use 
          them is the main goal of the course.