REU 2009
Probabilistic Algorithms in Linear Algebra

Advisors:

• Ilse Ipsen (faculty advisor),  4234 SAS Hall,   ipsen at ncsu dot edu
  
• Rizwana Rehman (graduate student advisor),  rrehman at unity dot ncsu dot edu

Linear Algebra:

• Matrices
• Sensitivity, Errors and Norms
• Linear Systems
• Singular Value Decomposition
• Least Squares Problems
• Index

• Carl Meyer: Matrix Analysis and Applied Linear Algebra

Subset Selection:

• Strong RRQR
• Probabilistic Algorithm
• All kinds of RRQR Algorithms

Lab Report/Journal:

• Presentations every Tuesday
• Guidelines:
  • On which problem did you work? What were you trying to do?
  • Which approaches did you try? Which ones worked? Which ones did not, and why?
  • Did you get any new ideas? Did you understand anything better? Did you get anymore insight?
  • Where did you get stuck?
  • What are you going to do next, and why?

Matlab Resources:

• Matlab Primer
  
• Numerical Computing with Matlab
• Matlab Tutorial (Utah)

L^ATEX Resources:

• L^ATEX Beamer for presentations
• Essential L^ATEX
• Essential Mathematical L^ATEX
• L^ATEX 2e introduction
• L^ATEX Software and Documentation
• Easy to install L^ATEX for Windows