Class Schedule
08:15am --9:30am . - MW: ME 108
Instructor:
Yousef Saad
e-mail: saad =at= umn
Office: Keller H. 5-225B -- Office Phone: (612)624-7804
Teaching Assistant:
Jack Perisich [ peris025 =at= umn ]
Office Hours
| Who: | When: | Where: |
| Yousef Saad | Mo 2:30-3:30pm, Tu 1:00 -- 2:00pm | Keller H. 5-225B |
| Jack Perisich | We Th 10:00 -- 11:00am | Keller H. 2-209 |
Short description of course:
This course introduces the basic numerical techniques of linear algebra.
The emphasis of the course is on
the design of these algorithms and their analysis, with some coverage
of related applications to motivate and support the material.
Because of this emphasis, it
requires a good background in mathematics, and more
specifically in linear algebra. For a detailed description see the
syllabus
At the minimum the students in this class should
be familiar with linear
algebra and matrices at the level of csci 2033.
A knowledge of matlab is assumed as this will
constitute the only language used for programming and testing
algorithms in the class.
Relations with csci 5302:
CSCI 5302 used to be a prerequisite for this class but this is no longer
the case now. Having taken 5302 will help
-- at least from the perspective that you would have acquired a better
understanding of numerical methods in general. The overlap between the two
courses is minimal. They are in fact complementary and taking the two courses
will give the student an excellent coverage of numerical methods.