• Instructor: Pablo Venegas
• Office: Math Building 4112
• Email: pvenegas(at)umd.edu
• Grader: Rouzhen Ma
• Class webpage: http://www.math.umd.edu/~pvenegas/math401_2015/math401_2015.html.

  All course information and announcements (including assignments) will be posted on the course webpage.

• Office Hours: Wednesday 10:00 - 11:00 or by appointment
• Lecture: MWF: 9:00-9:50 (Rm: MTH 1311)
• Textbook: Applied Linear Algebra, by Peter J. Olver and Chehrzad Shakiban, ISBN 0-13-147382-4

• Various applications of linear algebra: linear programming, data fitting and interpolation, incidence matrices, graphs and directed graphs, network and transportation problems. The syllabus I handed out in class (in PDF format) is here.

Notes

• Chapter 1 - Part A. LINEAR ALGEBRAIC SYSTEMS (multiple).

Homework

• Homework # 1, Due February 6.
• Homework # 2, Due February 13.
• Homework # 3, Due February 20.
• Homework # 4, Due February 27.
• Homework # 5, Due March 27.
• Homework # 6, Due April 10.
• Homework # 7, Due April 22.
• Midterm 2 (not mandatory homework), Due May 11.
• Solution Midterm 2.

MATLAB Projects

• MATLAB project 0.
• MATLAB project 1, Due March 13 (Programs) .
• MATLAB project 2, Due May 6.

• Here is the link to the course schedule, homeworks and exams.

  Homework, quiz, and exam schedule.

• Homework and Matlab (20%)

  Homework problems will be assigned each class and some of them graded. Quizzes will be slight modifications of homework problems. A list of homework assignments will be posted on the webpage of the course and updated frequently. There will be several Matlab assignments. Students are encouraged to work in groups of up to three students but must hand in an individual project report. Homeworks will be due every Friday 9:50, unless stated otherwise. Late homework will not be graded.

• Quizzes (10%)

  There will be a 10-minute quiz about every two weeks, unless stated otherwise, which will cover the material developed since the previous quiz. Quizzes will be announced the class before.

• Exams (70%)

  There will be two midterm exams each worth 20% of the ffinal grade and a cumulative final exam worth 30%.

• Make-up examinations will be given only in the case of an absence caused by illness, religious observance, participation in a University activity at the request of of the University authorities, or compelling circumstances beyond the students' control. Convincing documentation such as a doctor's note will be required. For further information visit:

  http://www.testudo.umd.edu/soc/atedasse.html.

  The reason for absence must to unavoidable, documented, and reported to me at least 48 hours before the exam date.

• Students who require special examination conditions must register with the office of the Disabled Students Services (DSS). Documentation must be provided. Paper forms must be filled out and provided before every exam.

• Free walk-in tutoring at UMCP: Math Success Program .
• Exams:

  You can find old exams given in this course at testbank .

• MATLAB:

  As a student, through the university you can obtain a free MATLAB version. To do this follow the link http://www.it.umd.edu/techsavings/ software.html .

  A guide to run Matlab from an off campus computer can be found here . Few instructions to use Matlab by Justin Wyss-Gallifent can be found here .

  A few further useful commands for our course here .