talk this afternoon

Hi

My office hours today, Nov 7, are cancelled. 

There will be a talk on numerical analysis that
is designed to be accessible to undergraduates today
at 3:30 in Gore 102.  The speaker is Prof. Rick Falk
of Rutgers who will be speaking on
Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Approximation.
He is an award winning professor in mathematics and is
the PhD advisor of our current department chair,
Dr. Monk. 

If anyone goes, please find me and let me know
you were there.  I'll give 10 extra credit homework
points to anyone who attends.

RJB

miscellaneous for week of Nov 5

Hi

The homework due next week is posted.

The third project, on image compression using the
SVD, is posted. I have it due on the Wed before
Thanksgiving, but we can talk about this.
There is no lecture on Wed 11/21, but I can
come in and open the classroom to help you
finish it off if you like.

I will talk some about rootfinding before finishing up
with iterative methods. In terms of sections of the book,
I will finish with 5.3 and 5.4 today, and will at the least start 6.1
on Friday; I'll come back to 5.5.

For blogging, doing 6.1 for Friday would be good.
If you haven't already, 5.4 by then will be ok too.
6.2 for Monday will be good also.

The second exam for the course will be on Monday,
November 19th. More about the exam later.

RJB