TMA4145 - Linear Methods - Fall term 2022

Messages:

  • Aug 25th: Link to panopto folder of recorded lectures TMA4145
  • Aug 28th: Here are the lecture notes for week 34. Sorry for the delay but there have been some unexpected developments.
  • Sept 13th: Please get in touch with Xu if there are any problems related to the course since Franz is on sick leave until the end of September.
  • Sept 21th: The future lectures are based on this old notes: https://wiki.math.ntnu.no/_media/tma4145/2019h/course-notes_2019-10pt-bm-final.pdf. We will start from chapter 2 next week.
  • Oct 28th: The exercise session on November 3rd at 10-12 will be moved from R93 to G138 (Gamle elektro). We apologize for the inconvenience.
  • Nov 14th: A problem set 13 has been posted. You can find the problem set here. ONLY students who need to have this exercise approved in order to take the exam may submit it. The submission is to be made directly to Helge Jørgen Samuelsen. Please note that the deadline is at 15:00 on Friday the 25.11.2022 and not on Monday the 28.11.2022.
  • Nov 24th: cover page of the final exam.
  • Dec 5th: Solution of the final exam.



Lectures

Mondays in Hovedbygningen, room H3, at 14:15–16:00
Tuesdays in Hovedbygningen, room H3, at 14:15–16:00

Lecturer

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Reference group

The following students have volunteered to be members of the reference group. They will offer the lecturer feedback on the course throughout the semester, so please contact them with any feedback regarding lectures or exercise sessions. You may also contact the lecturer directly via e-mail.

Name NTNU user name
Axel Hagen, MTFYMA axelfh
Sofus Buskoven, MTFYMA sjbuskov
Emil Kofoed, MTFYMA emilkof

Minutes for the first meeting 20th Sep

Lectures

A little bit unmotivated

Would be nice to recall the mainline or story line

If the proof needs a lemma, better to explicitly say that "now we jump to something else, no need to take notes"

Would be nice to be more structured, more concrete on what you are saying

Nice when answering the questions from the students, better to ask more questions

Exercises

Sometimes not trivial

Use Wikipedia ti find the notation

Others

Add a link of the old notes to the coursepage

Minutes for the second meeting 26th Oct

Lectures

A little bit unstructured

Nice when Xu takes the time to answer questions

Nice when applications are mentioned, gives structure and motivation

Would be nice to explain the strategy of the proof before writing it rigorously

Nice when drawing to create mental images

Exercises

Sometimes hard

Convex analysis was hard

Exam

Will have some computation problems, (best approximations, banach fixed point iterations

If you have done the exercises, you should get a good enough grade

1-2 more theoretical questions to determine A/B students

No convex analysis or compactness, will stick to course description

Inclined to exam-problems given previously, good idea to look at

Xu and Franz will make exam together

Will be normal gradings

Will probably not be any big surprises for exam

Minutes for the first meeting 11th Jan

Exam covered the course subjects

Exam was basically given in advance - too easy

Exercise 13 was similar to exam

Exam was not too easy in general, missed an exercise to separate A-students from B-students

2023-01-12, Xu Wang