| Class | Date | Main Topic(s) | Section(s) |
| 1 | Mo 01/29 | Gaussian Elimination (GE) and the LU Decomposition | 1.7, 1.8 |
| 2, #1 | We 01/31 | Roundoff Errors; Propagation of Roundoff Errors | 2.5, 2.6 |
| Mo 02/05 | No class (make-up class on 02/08) | ||
| 3, #2 | We 02/07 | Vector Norms | 2.1 |
| 4 | Th 02/08 | Matrix Norms in room MP 401 | 2.1 |
| 5 | Mo 02/12 | Basic Facts About Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors | 5.2 |
| We 02/14 | Cancelled due to snow | ||
| 6, #3 | Th 02/15 | Similarity Transforms in room MP 401 | 5.4 |
| 7 | Mo 02/19 | Matrix Norms; Sensitivity Analysis and Condition Numbers | 2.1, 2.2 |
| 8, #4 | We 02/21 | A Posteriori Error Analysis; Backward Error Analysis of GE | 2.3, 2.4, 2.7 |
| Th 02/22 | Review of Proving Strategies in room MP 401 | 2.1 | |
| 9 | Mo 02/26 | Positive Definite Systems; Cholesky Decomposition; Sparse GE and Cholesky in Matlab | 1.4, 1.6, 1.9 |
| 10, #5 | We 02/28 | Iterative Methods for Linear Systems; A Model Problem | 7.1 |
| 11 | Th 03/01 | The Classical Iterative Methods in room MP 401 | 7.2 |
| Mo 03/05 | No class (make-up class on 03/01) | ||
| 12, #6 | We 03/07 | Convergence of Iterative Methods | 7.3 |
| 13 | Mo 03/12 | Steepest Descent; The Conjugate-Gradient (CG) Method | 7.4, 7.6 |
| 14, #7 | We 03/14 | Preconditioners; Indefinite and Nonsymmetric Problems | 7.5, 7.9 |
| Mo 03/19 | Spring Break | ||
| We 03/21 | Spring Break | ||
| 15 | Mo 03/26 | Derivation of the CG Algorithm | 7.7 |
| 16, #8 | We 03/28 | Convergence of the CG Algorithm | 7.8 |
| 17 | Mo 04/02 | Midterm Exam | |
| We 04/04 | No class (make-up class on 04/05) | ||
| 18, #9 | Th 04/05 | The Discrete Least Squares Problem in room MP 401 | 3.1 |
| 19 | Mo 04/09 | Orthogonal Matrices, Rotators, and Reflectors | 3.2 |
| 20, #10 | We 04/11 | Solution of the Least Squares Problem | 3.3 |
| Mo 04/16 | Cancelled due to power outage | ||
| 21, #11 | We 04/18 | The Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) | 4.1 |
| 22 | Mo 04/23 | Some Basic Applications of Singular Values | 4.2 |
| 23 | We 04/25 | The SVD and the Least Squares Problem | 4.3 |
| Mo 04/30 | No class (make-up class on 05/03) | ||
| We 05/02 | No class (make-up class on 02/15) | ||
| 24, #12 | Th 05/03 | The Power Method and Extensions; Similarity Transforms in room MP 401 | 5.3, 5.4 |
| 25 | Mo 05/07 | Reduction to Hessenberg and Tridiagonal Forms | 5.5 |
| 26, #13 | We 05/09 | The QR Algorithm | 5.6 |
| 27 | Mo 05/14 | Computer numbers: IEEE-standard for floating-point numbers | |
| Mo 05/21 | 03:30-05:30 Final Exam Note the date and time! | ||