Course calendar:
| Monday | Wednesday | Friday | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | Jan 13: First day of class! Vector algebra |
Jan 15: Span and linear independence |
Jan 17: WebWork 1 due. |
| Week 2 | Jan 20: Martin Luther King Jr. day, no class today. | Jan 22: Introduction to Python Conceptual homework 1 due. |
Jan 24: Introduction to Principal Component Analysis Webwork 2 due. |
| Week 3 | Jan 27: Matrices and matrix algebra. | Jan 29: Quiz 1 on vectors, in class today. | Jan 31: Matrix inverses Webwork 3 due. |
| Week 4 | Feb 3: Determinants Applied homework 1 due. |
Feb 5: Eigenvalues Conceptual homework 2 due. |
Feb 7: Eigenvalues continued Webwork 4 due. |
| Week 5 | Feb 10: Introduction to Markov chains | Feb 12: Quiz 2 on matrix algebra, matrix inverses, and determinants, in class today. | Feb 14: Diagonalization Webwork 5 due. |
| Week 6 | Feb 17: Orthogonal matrices No assignments due. |
Feb 19: Orthogonal diagonalization Conceptual homework 3 due. |
Feb 21: Singular value decomposition Applied homework 2 due. |
| Week 7 | Feb 24: Singular value decomposition, continued Webwork 6 due. |
Feb 26: Quiz 3 on eigenvalues, eigenvectors, and diagonalization, in class today. Applications of SVD |
Feb 28: Surfaces |
| Week 8 | Mar 3: Partial derivatives Webwork 7 due. |
Mar 5: Directional derivatives and gradients Conceptual homework 4 due. |
Mar 7: |
| Week 9 | Mar 10: Lagrange multipliers Webwork 8 due, Applied homework 3 due. |
Mar 12: Quiz 4 on SVD, surfaces, partial derivatives, and gradients in class today. Intro to gradient descent |
Mar 14: Quadratic forms Conceptual homework 5 due. |
| Week 10 | Mar 17: Webwork 9 due. | Mar 19: | Mar 21: No class today. |
| Spring break! | |||
| Week 11 | Mar 31: Probability Webwork 10 due. |
Apr 2: Conditional probability Applied homework 4 due. |
Apr 4: Bayes' Theorem Quiz 5 on directional derivatives, optimization, Lagrange multipliers, and quadratic forms in class today. |
| Week 12 | Apr 7: Random variables Webwork 11 due. |
Apr 9: Algebra with random variables Conceptual homework 6 due. |
Apr 11: Joint random variables and independence |
| Week 13 | Apr 14: Covariance Webwork 12 due. |
Apr 16: Student Scholarship Recognition Day (SSRD), no class today. | Apr 18: Covariance matrices |
| Week 14 | Apr 21: Quiz 6 in class today. Principal component analysis using covariance |
Apr 23: PCA using covariance, continued Webwork 13 due. |
Apr 25: PCA using covariance, part 3 |
| Week 15 | Apr 28: Last day of class! Applied homework 5 due. |
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| Finals | May 7: Final exam, 2:00-5:00 One double-sided page of notes allowed. |