PEOPLE. LUCA SCHENATO. Teaching.

APPLIED LINEAR ALGEBRA

a.a. 2019-2020

Ph.D. School in Information Engineering

Luca Schenato

Full Professor

Department of Information Engineering

University of Padova

Via Gradenigo 6/B – 35131 Padova Italy

Tel.: +39 049.827.7925

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Proposte di Tesi

HYCON2

ECC13

Description

Objectives

Lectures

Week

TUESDAY

(10:30-12:30 DEI-G 3rd floor)

FRIDAY

(10:30-12:30 DEI-G 3rd floor)

1 (19-22/11)

Course introduction. Vectors and matrices (Lecture 1)

LU decomposition and solution of square systems (Lecture 2)

2 (26-29/11)

Vector Subspaces (Lecture 3)

QR orthogonalization and decomposition (Lecture 4)

3 (3-6/12)

Linear maps and Fundamental Theorem of Linear Algebra (Lecture 5)

Eigenvectors, Shur Decomposition, Projections (Lecture 6)

4 (7-13/12)

Positive Definite matrices, roots and quadratic function (Lecture 7)

Polar Decomposition and SVD (Lecture 8)

5 (14-20/3)

Pseudo-Inverse and Least squares (Lecture 9)

Numerical conditioning (Lecture 10)

References

Textbooks and Internet Notes:

 

  1. S. Boyd, L. Vanderberghe, "Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra", Cambridge University Press, 2018
  2. G. Strang, "The Fundamental Theorem of Linear Algebra", The American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 100(9), pp. 848-855, 1993
  3. G. Strang, "Linear Algebra and Learning From Data", Wellesley - Cambridge Press, 2019

Final Exam Grading

  1. Homeworks
  2. Written final exam
  3. Short presentation based on a recent paper of Linear Algebra Algorithms for Big Data