MATH 4721/6721			Schedule of Lectures and Exams			Spring 2012
Numerical Analysis						Dwiggins
	MONDAY		WEDNESDAY		FRIDAY
Week # 0					Jan 13
						Introduction
						Overview of Course
Week # 1	Jan 16	LABOR DAY	Jan 18		Jan 19
			§§ 1.1-2	Numerical	§§ 1.3-4	Error Sources,
				Representation and		Propagation,
				Computation Errors		and Control
Week # 2	Jan 23		Jan 25	HW # 1 Due	Jan 27
	§§ 1.5-6	Introduction to	§§ 2.1-2	Bisection Method	§§ 2.3-5	General Theory
		Error Analysis		and Newton's Method		of Iteration
				for Finding Roots		Methods
Week # 3	Jan 30		Feb 1		Feb 3	HW # 2 Due
	§§ 2.6-8	Comparison of	§§ 2.9-11	Finding Roots of	§§ 3.1-2	Interpolation
		Newton's Method		Systems of Equations		Theory
		with other methods
Week # 4	Feb 6		Feb 8		Feb 10
	§§ 3.3-4	Finite Difference	§§ 3.5-6	Interpolation	§§ 3.7-8	Spline
		Tables		Error Analysis		Theory
Week # 5	Feb 13	HW # 3 Due	Feb 15		Feb 17	TEST # 1
		REVIEW		REVIEW		Chapters 1-3
Week # 6	Feb 20		Feb 22		Feb 24
	§§ 7.1-2	A Review of	§ 7.3	Linear Spaces	§ 7.4	Convergence
		Linear Algebra		Vector Norms		and Perturbation
				Matrix Norms
Week # 7	Feb 27		Feb 29	HW # 4 Due	Mar 2
	§§ 8.1-2	Gaussian	§§ 8.3-4	Residuals and		Wilkinson's
		Elimination		Error Analysis		"Fig Leaf"
Week # 8	Mar 5	SPRING BREAK	Mar 7		Mar 9
MATH 4721/6721			Schedule of Lectures and Exams			Spring 2012
Numerical Analysis						Dwiggins
	MONDAY		WEDNESDAY		FRIDAY
Week # 9	Mar 12		Mar 14		Mar 16
	§ 8.4	The Condition	§ 8.5	Iteration Methods	§ 8.6	Iteration Methods:
		Number for		with Residuals		Further Topics
		a Matrix
Week # 10	Mar 19	HW # 5 Due	Mar 21		Mar 23
	§§ 8.7-9	Special Matrices	Ch. 9	Numerical
		and corresponding		Approximation		REVIEW
		algorithms		of Eigenvalues
Week # 11	Mar 26	TEST # 2	Mar 28		Mar 30
			§ 4.1	From Taylor	§§ 4.2-4	Inner Product
		Chapters 7-8		to Weierstrass		Spaces and
						L2 Approximation
Week # 12	Apr 2		Apr 4		Apr 6
	§§ 4.4-6	Least Squares	§ 5.1	Numerical	§ 5.2	Splines and the
		Regression		Integration		Newton-Cotes Method
Week # 13	Apr 9		Apr 11		Apr 13
	§ 5.3	Gaussian	§ 5.4	Error	§§ 6.1-2	Differential
		Quadrature		Analysis		Equations
Week # 14	Apr 16		Apr 18		Apr 20
	§§ 6.2-3	Euler's	§ 6.10	Runge-Kutta	§§ 6.4-5	Other
		Method		Methods		Methods
Week # 15	Apr 23		Apr 25		Friday, Apr 27, 10:30-12:30
					FINAL EXAM
		REVIEW		REVIEW	Wednesday, May 2, noonish
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