AMSC/CMSC460 - Spring 2017

This website contains information about the course AMSC/CMSC460 - Computational Methods, Section 4, Spring 2017 at University of Maryland. It will be updated throughout the semester. For feedback, please email to frweber@umd.edu .

General information

Class hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00-12:15

Class room: JMP 2202

Instructor: Franziska Weber frweber@umd.edu , office: MATH4305

Office hours: Tuesdays, 12:15pm - 1:00 pm, Wednesdays, 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Grader: Dana Botesteanu, dboteste@math.umd.edu

Textbook: Numerical computing with MATLAB Individual chapters and example codes can be dowloaded for free from the mathworks webpage. If you prefer a printed version, you could buy it from the university bookstore or from the SIAM website. We will mostly follow this book, if other references are used, I will mention it.

Exams:

  • Midterm 1: Tuesday, March 7, 2017, in class (11:00am-12:15pm)
  • Midterm 2: Thursday, April 20, 2017, in class (11:00am -12:15pm)
  • Final exam: Saturday, May 13, 2017, 8:00 - 10:00am

If you have conflicts with the assigned exam dates, please contact me as soon as possible and latest one week before the exam. Else it will be counted as 0 points.

Grading policy:

  • Homework: 20%
  • Midterms: 20% each, 40% total
  • Final exam: 40%

Homework:

  • The homeworks account for 20% of your grade.
  • Please hand them in by the end of the class (12:15pm) on the due date. Otherwise it will not be graded.
  • The homeworks will involve some more theoretical as well as MATLAB exercises.
  • You may discuss the homework problems with others, however, everyone has to submit their own solution. If you hand in the exact same solutions as others (or a master solution from the internet), and I notice, you will get zero points for that homework.
  • The homeworks are graded by Dana Botesteanu, email: dboteste@math.umd.edu .

Disabilities:

Students who require special examination conditions must register with the office of the Disabled Students Services (DSS) in Shoemaker Hall. Documentation must be provided and discussed with me in person within the first week of classes. Proper forms must be filled out and provided before every exam.

Academic Integrity:

All work that you submit must be your own. You are welcomed to discuss the material with each other in a general way, but you have to submit your own solutions. Any marked similarity (form, notation) between submissions of different authors or resemblance to master solutions on the internet will be regarded as evidence of academic dishonesty and you will not receive points for such submissions. If you use references, you must cite them and clearly mark quotations. Such citation will not lower your grade as long as you do not do it excessively.

Announcements

  • Tuesday, 05/02: HW11 is online. It is due May 9, 2017.
  • Thursday, 04/27: We discussed minimization, here is the m-file for the Golden Section Search: Golden.m
  • Wednesday, 04/26: HW10 is online, it is due May 2, 2017.
  • Saturday, 04/15: HW9 is online, it is due April 25, 2017.
  • Thursday, 04/06: We started discussing least squares problems. HW8 is online. It is due April 13, 2017.
  • Tuesday, 04/04: You may resubmit HW5 until Thursday 04/06. Please submit it with your previous attempt if you only redid some of the tasks.
  • Friday, 03/31: The new homework sheet is online. It is due April 7, 2017.
  • Saturday, 03/18: The new homework sheet is online. It is due March 28, 2017.
  • Thursday, 03/09: The solutions of midterm#1 are online. We started discussing numerical intergration in class.
  • Monday, 03/06: Homework #5 is online.
  • Thursday, 03/02: Some more Matlab scripts to illustrate spline interpolation can be found here: Interpolation_errors
  • Wednesday, 03/01: Some Matlab scripts to demonstrate errors in polynomial interpolation in the Course syllabus section.
  • Tuesday, 02/21: We started discussing interpolation. Some MATLAB scripts are available in the Course syllabus section.
  • Thursday, 02/16: We discussed pivoting in the LU-factorization, band matrices and SPD-matrices. Homework #4 is online in the Homework section.
  • Thursday, 02/09: We finished the discussion on errors and started with the solution of linear systems of equations. Homework #3 is online in the Homework section.
  • Thursday, 02/02: We discussed vector and matrix norms. Homework #2 is online in the Homework section.
  • Thursday, 01/26: We discussed floating point arithmetic in the first class. The first homework is online in the Homework section.
  • Welcome to AMSC/CMSC 460!