This web page http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jmandel/classes/5660f02
serves as the class syllabus and source of further information.
We'll cover selected material from sections 1 to 6 of the text. The progress of the class will be recorded and homework assigments available in the class notes file. In-class computer demonstrations (and there will be many of them) will be in the matlab directory. Some of the portions of the material where I cover things differently than in the texbook, will be in my Lecture notes . There will be a midterm and final, and homework assignments most Mondays, due the following Monday. The midterm will be on October 16. The final will be on December 9 or 11 as determined by the Auraria finals schedule. You cannot use any books, computers, or notes at the exams, except for one 3" by 5" card wher you can write anything you want. The final score will be computed as
1/2(A+B+C- min(A,B,C))
where A=homework assignments, B=midterm, C=final, each scaled separately from 0 to 100. Assignments and exams will be graded on the scale 0 to 4: 4=OK, 3=minor error, 2=significant progress, 1=some progress, 0=no progress, wrong problem, or misunderstood problem. The letter grades will be A >= 90, A- >= 85, B+ >= 80, B >= 75, B- >=70, C+ >= 65, C >= 60, C- >= 55, D+ >= 50, D >= 45, D- >= 40.
Homeworks will be considered on time if they are turned in on the due date at the beginning of the class or left at my office at least half an hour before the class time. I cannot accept homeworks by email (too many different formats) but if you cannot make the class you can fax your homework to 303-556-8550 and alert me by email, again at least half hour before the class begins. Late homeworks get 1/2 of the credit unless arranged ahead of time with me. There will be no makeup exams or extra credit; the grading scheme works in such a way that if you do not do well on one of the exams or on the homeworks, you can still get a very good grade.
Computer assignments should be done on math.cudenver.edu. Assignments must be done in Matlab
except for some assignments involving libraries, which will require Fortran. For every assignment,
turn in a printout of the program and of the output, and prepare
a world readable directory named 5660/hw1, 5660/hw2, etc (for
assignment 1, assignment 2, etc) immediately under your home directory
on math, containing a working code and any relevant data that was
used to produce your printout. All code should be run from a single
command named go The program has to run on math in the specified directory
to receive any credit for a computer project. You can prepare the assignment
using another computer, such as PC running Matlab (these are available
in the undergraduate lab, SI 130), but you must copy the files to
math, make them accessible to me, and test that they run. If you copy files by ssh, the files will be by default
not readable by anybody else. You must permit others to read them using the chmod command:
in the directory where the files are issue the command
chmod og+r *
You also need to give others permission to access your home directory and the directories
with your homework files:
chmod og+rx ~ ~/5660 ~/5660/hw*