CAAM 335 MATRIX ANALYSIS

Spring 2015 Rice University

Website: http://www.caam.rice.edu/~caam335-S15
OwlSpace: https://owlspace-ccm.rice.edu
Instructor Yin Zhang (yzhang at rice.edu), Duncan Hall 3090, (713) 3485744
Lectures MWF 9:00AM, Duncan Hall 1064
Prerequisites MATH 212 and CAAM 210. Less formally: you should be familiar with multivariable calculus and elementary matrix manipulations (matrix addition and multiplication,
Gaussian elimination), and be able to write MATLAB programs.
Course Notes Linear Algebra in Situ by Steve Cox
(Available as a course pack from the campus store. Matlab codes for figures in the text:
http://www.caam.rice.edu/~cox/LAIS/).
Grading 60% exams, 40% quizzes. Class participation and improving performance on the
exams will be considered when assigning borderline grades.
Exams Three take-home, timed, closed-book exams will each account for 20% of the final
grade. Each exam must be your individual, unassisted effort; indicate compliance by writing
out in full and signing the traditional pledge. Late exams will not be accepted without a
written excuse. (Approximate dates for the exams are given on the reverse.)
Quizzes Timed quizzes will be assigned roughly once a week, which will be administrated
through and graded by OwlSpace, and made available online several days before their due
dates.
You can only discuss quiz questions with the instructor/TAs before taking them.
Quizzes must be completed on individual basis without any collaborations.
During the quizzes, you can only consult your CAAM 335 course notes and Matlab.
Late submissions, within specified late-due times, will be accepted with the following penalty
rate: 1st 0%; 2nd 0%, 3rd and subsequent 20%.
Theoretical Problems Additional problems involving derivations or proofs, whose answers
are not as clear-cut as those in the quizzes (e.g., true-or-false or multiple choices), will be given
as ungraded assignments. Since such problems will appear in the exams, you need to do and
understand them well. Helps to such problems will be given by in recitations and office hours,
and solutions will be made available before relevant exams.
Programming Some assessments will require MATLAB programming. Your programs should
adhere to good programming standards, and must not be copied from any other sources.
Other Readings
Carl Meyer, Applied Matrix Analysis and Linear Algebra
Gilbert Strang, Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 3rd ed.
R. V. Churchill, & J. W. Brown, Complex Variables and Applications, 5th ed.
D. J. Higham & N. J. Higham, MATLAB Guide

Course Outline and Reading Assignments (roughly weekly)

Chap. 1: Orientation, sections 13
Chap. 2: Electrical Networks, sections 12
Chap. 3: Mechanical Networks, sections 13
Chap. 4: The Column and Null Spaces, sections 13
Chap. 5: The Fundamental Theorem and Beyond, sections 13
Chap. 6: Least Squares, sections 14
Chap. 7: Metabolic Networks, sections 13
Chap. 8: Dynamic Systems, sections 14
Chap. 9: Complex Numbers, Vectors and Functions, sections 13
Chap. 10: Complex Integration, sections 13
Chap. 11: The Eigenvalue Problem, sections 12
Chap. 12: The Hermitian Eigenvalue Problem, sections 12
Chap. 13: The Singular Value Decomposition, sections 12

Exam Schedule (tentative)

There will be three timed (three hour), closed-book, take-home exams (each accounting for 20% of
the final grade). You will have at least a four-day window to take each exam.
Exam 1. Chapters 14: due on the Friday of the fifth week (Feb. 13th)
Exam 2. Chapters 58: due on the Friday of the ninth week (Mar. 20th)
Exam 3. Chapters 913: due on the last day of classes (Apr. 24th)

Any student with a disability requiring accommodation in this course is encouraged

to contact the instructor during the first week of class, and also to contact
Disability Support Services in the Ley Student Center.