COMPSCI 520 - Numerical Analysis Qualifying Exam

Monday, January 7, 2013
2:00-5:00 pm
LSRC D106

Qualifying Exam Syllabus for COMPSCI 520 (formerly CPS 250)

Analysis of analytical truncation errors and architectural rounding errors, and error propagation.

Numerical methods for solving a system of linear equations, from specially structured systems to factorizations of a general system.

Approximation and optimization methods, including in particular the least squares approximation and optimization.

Iterative methods and their analysis, including stationary methods such as the Gauss-Seidel method and non-stationary methods such as the conjugate gradient method.

Numerical solutions to the diffusion equations of multiple dimensions.

Additional credits may be given to a well-described numerical method to a research problem.

Sample Exams:

Spring 2012

Spring 2011

Spring 2010



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