Laplacians on Networks and Meshes

(CS 558 / CS 513 Topics in Numerical Analysis)

Fall 2009

Tu-Th 11 - 12:15, CRN 35929/35931, Credit hours 4
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Computer Science

Instructor : Anil N. Hirani

We will define Laplacians on networks and meshes and apply these to scientific computing, machine learning, and computer graphics. Class will include sessions on Python programming, the language to be used for our experiments. No prior experience in Python or numerical analysis required.

Lecture Notes: Theory : printed copy handed out in class; Lab : labnotes made available on the subversion (svn) repository for the class.

Class Format: Lectures and lab sessions by instructor. Tuesdays will be lab sessions in CSIL computer lab, Room 0220, Siebel Center. I will teach python programming, and use of PyDEC and other package. Thursdays will be theory lectures in Room 1103, Siebel Center.

Contacts: Instructor : Prof. Anil N. Hirani, hirani at cs dot illinois dot edu ; 217-333-2727; Room 4320 Siebel Center; Office hours : After class

Other Resources: Special packages writen by me and made available via the subversion repository for the class.

Page maintained by Anil N. Hirani. Last updated October 6, 2009. The development of this course is based in part on work supported by the National Science Foundation under CAREER Award Grant No. DMS-0645604. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).