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MATH 170A

Winter 2020

This is the website for lecture B (3 pm). Lecture A is running in parallel (10 am) and is lead by Ioana Dumitriu. We are teaching the same chapters from the textbook, and we have the same homework assignments. We also have a joint Piazza group for lecture A and B. Exams will be different, however.

Information for lecture B:

Instructor: Caroline Moosmüller

Email: cmoosmueller (at) ucsd (dot) edu

Office: AP&M 6442

Office hours: Th 10 am - 12 pm, F 4 - 5 pm, in AP&M 6303

Lecture room: PETER 104

Lecture time: MWF 3 pm - 3:50 pm

Podcasting: I am podcasting my lecture (audio and screen). You can access it through UCSD's podcasting site with your UCSD account.

Piazza: We will be using Piazza for lecture and homework related questions. The Piazza group is joint with MATH 170A lecture A. Please sign up to join the group.

Lecture notes:

Jan-6 (Chapter 1.1) inner_product.m (Code for computing the inner product)
Jan-8 (Chapter 1.2, notes updated on Jan 9)
Jan-10 (Chapter 1.3) LowTriangularSolve.m (Code for solving lower triangular systems)
Jan-13 (Chapter 1.7) gesolve.m (Gauss elimination without pivoting code, outputs LU decomposition)
Jan-15 (Chapter 1.8)
Jan-17 (Chapter 1.4)
Jan-22 (Chapter 2.1) cholesky_factor.m
Jan-24 (Chapter 3.1)
Jan-29 (Chapter 3.2/3.3)
Jan-31 (Chapter 3.2/3.3) qr_by_refl_general.m (code for computing QR decomposition with reflectors)
Feb-3 (Chapter 3.4) gs.m (code for computing Gram Schmidt orthogonalization)
Feb-5 (Chapter 2.2/2.3)
Feb-7 (Chapter 4.1/4.2)
Feb-10 (Chapter 4.2 continued, lecture notes kindly provided by Ioana Dumitriu)
Feb-12 (Chapter 4.3)
Feb-14 (Chapter 5.1)
Feb-19 (Chapter 5.2, mistake in last example corrected)
Feb-21 (Chapter 5.3) power_method.m
Feb-26 (Chapter 5.4)
Feb-28 (Chapter 5.5)
Mar-2 (QR iteration, related to Chapter 5.6)
Mar-4 (Chapter 5.8)
Mar-6 (Review of Chapter 5)
Mar-9 (Chapter 8.1/8.2, mistake in example corrected)
Mar-11 (Chapter 8.2/8.3)

Another good resource for lecture notes is the lecture A website.

Discussion sections for lecture B:

TA Section Time Room
Minxin Zhang B01 M 5 pm - 5:50 pm APM 6402
Dante Wu B02 M 6 pm - 6:50 pm APM 6402

TA office hours:

Minxin Zhang: W 5-6 pm in AP&M 1121
Dante Wu: Th 3:30 - 4:30 pm in AP&M 6446

Study group:

Leader Time Room
Meghedi Zargarian W 1 pm - 2:20 pm CENTR 316

Weekly calendar:

Calendar inactive because quarter is over.