MATH 1451H - Spring 2015
Accelerated Calculus, part II
Course Info. View syllabus.
Office: 604 PGH, (713) 743 3581; Hours: Mo, We 1:30-2:30pm.
Follow latest news and course status on Twitter @AccelCalcUH
Tentative Course Calendar (updated 5-04-15)
Latest news:
Practice final posted. Special review session for the final on Thursday, May 7, 2:30-4pm,
in AH
106.
| Week |
Sections to
be read, Exam dates |
Suggested homework problems |
|
|
12.1-12.2 |
12.1
1-13 odd, 25, 29, 35
12.2 1-13 odd, 19, 23, 33
|
| Jan 26-30
|
12.3-12.5 |
12.3 3-17 odd, 23, 25, 29, 43, 47, 49, 51
12.4
1, 3, 9, 23, 25, 29, 33, 35, 41, 45
12.5 1-19 odd, 23, 27, 31, 39, 47, 53, 67, 69
|
| Feb 2-6 |
13.1-13.3 |
13.1
1-15 odd, 19-23 odd, 27, 35, 39
13.2 5, 9, 11, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 35
13.3 1, 3, 11, 17, 19, 43, 45, 49, 59
|
| Feb 9-13 |
14.1, 14.2, 14.3 |
14.1 1, 13, 25, 27, 31, 39, 47, 55-59 odd
14.2
7-17 odd, 23, 27, 29, 31,
37
14.3
5-9 odd, 15, 17, 25, 33, 37, 43, 45, 49, 57, 61, 87, 95 b-d |
| Feb 16-20 |
14.4, 14.5 |
14.4 1, 3, 13, 15, 25, 27, 33, 35, 39
14.5
1, 3, 7, 13, 15, 19, 23, 25, 27, 31, 35, 39, 49, 55 |
| Feb 23-27
|
|
Review
Ch. 12 Ex 11, 15, 17, 19, 21
Review
Ch. 13 Ex 1, 3, 5, 9, 11, 15,
21
Review
Ch. 14 Ex 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 23, 25, 39
14.6
1, 5, 7, 19, 27, 33, 37, 39, 43, 47 |
| Mar 2-6 |
14.7, 14.8, 12.6 |
14.7 1, 3, 9, 19, 21, 27, 29, 31, 37, 39, 41, 51
14.8 1-11 odd, 19, 21, 41, 45
12.6 1, 3, 9, 21-27 odd |
| Mar 9-13 |
15.1, 15.2, 15.3 |
15.1
11, 13
15.2 5, 13, 15, 19, 23, 25, 27
15.3 3, 9, 15, 25, 31, 33, 39-43 odd, 47, 49, 51, 53, 55, 61
|
| Mar 23-27 |
15.4, 15.5, 15.6 |
15.4
1, 3, 5, 9, 11, 15, 17, 19, 25, 29, 31, 35
15.5 3, 7, 13, 27, 29
15.6 3, 11, 15, 21, 23 a, 29, 33, 39, 41, 51 |
| Mar 30-Apr 3 |
15.7, 15.8
|
15.7
1, 3, 5, 9, 15, 17, 21, 27
15.8 1, 3, 5, 9, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 39
|
| Apr 6-10 |
Review, Apr 6
15.9
|
Review
Ch. 14 Ex 43, 45, 47, 51, 55, 59, 61
Review
Ch. 15 Ex 9, 13, 15, 17, 23, 25, 29, 31, 35, 39, 43, 45
15.9 1, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 23
|
| Apr 13-17 |
16.1, 16.2, 16.3 |
16.1 3, 11, 13, 15, 17, 23, 25
16.2
5, 11, 15, 17, 29(a), 41, 43
16.3 1, 3, 9, 11, 13, 21, 23, 27, 31
|
|
|
16.4, 16.5, 16.6 |
16.4 1, 5, 7, 13, 17, 23, 29
16.5
1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 13, 15, 17, 19, 25, 29
16.6 1, 3, 11, 13, 15, 23, 39, 41, 43
|
| Apr 27-May 1 |
16.7, 16.8, 16.9 |
16.7 5, 7, 13, 17, 19, 21, 23, 27
16.8
1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11(a,c), 13, 17
16.9 1, 5, 7, 11, 19, 23, 27
|
| Exam period |
Review, May 7
|
Review
Ch. 16 Ex 3,
5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 25, 27, 29, 33, 35, 41 |
MATH 1450H - Fall 2014
Accelerated Calculus, part I
Course Info. View syllabus.
Office: 604 PGH, (713) 743 3581; Hours: Mo, We 1:30-2:30pm.
Follow latest news and course status on Twitter @AccelCalcUH
To make sure you are well prepared for the course,
please review the formula sheet
which contains essential facts you should know.
Visit the page on frequently asked questions
and answers to find out what is on the mind of your peers.
Course Calendar (updated 11-10-14)
Latest news: Special review session for the Final on Monday, Dec 8, 12-1:30pm,
in AH 301.
| Week |
Sections to
be read, Exam dates |
Suggested homework problems |
|
Aug 25-29
|
Introduction, Review
1.3, 1.6, 2.3-2.5 |
1.3
7, 11, 21, 31, 35, 43 1.6
17, 23, 25, 53, 71
2.3 3, 5, 7, 9, 15, 19,
25, 35, 57, 41
2.4 3, 13 a,b, 15, 17, 19,
25, 37, 41, 43
2.5 1, 3, 5, 11, 13,
17, 21, 23, 37, 39, 41, 43 a,b, 45, 65
|
|
|
3.1-3.2 |
3.1
9,
11, 15, 19, 23, 25, 31, 35, 45, 51, 55, 59, 61, 73, 77
3.2 3,
5, 7, 11, 17, 21, 25, 27, 35 a, 43, 45, 51
|
| Sep
8-12 |
3.3-3.5 |
3.3 3-23
odd, 29, 33, 37, 39, 41, 45
3.4
5,
11, 13, 19, 23, 25, 31, 35, 37, 39, 49, 59, 61, 71, 75, 79,
89
3.5 7,
11, 15, 21, 25, 27, 35, 39, 41, 45, 47, 65
|
| Sep 15-19 |
4.4, 3.7-3.9 |
4.4
5,
15, 21, 15, 29, 43, 69
3.7 7,
9, 11, 15, 17, 19, 21, 31
3.8 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13,
15, 17, 19
3.9 5, 7, 13, 15, 23, 25,
27, 29, 33, 35, 39, 43
|
| Sep 22-26 |
4.1-4.3, 4.7 |
4.1
9, 11, 19, 21, 27,
33, 39, 41, 53, 57, 59, 61, 75
4.2 3, 5, 11, 15, 17, 19, 21 a, 25 (explain
briefly), 27, 31, 35
4.3 5, 7, 11, 13, 15, 25, 27, 35, 41, 43,
51, 67, 81
4.7 11, 13,
19, 25, 31, 35, 37, 49, 65, 67
|
| Sep
29-Oct 3 |
|
Review
Ch. 3 Ex 1-23 odd, 37, 39, 49, 53, 59, 69, 83, 87, 93, 97, 99
Review
Ch. 4 Ex 1, 5, 17, 25, 29, 37, 40, 47,
51, 75, 79, 81, 83
5.1 3, 5, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19,
21
5.2
1, 3, 7, 17, 19, 21, 23, 37, 39, 41, 45 (use
geometric series formula), 49,
53, 69, 71 |
| Oct
6-10 |
5.3, 5.4, 5.5 |
5.3 3,
5, 7-17 odd, 21, 29, 43, 53, 55, 63
5.4
9,
23, 33, 41, 43, 53, 63
5.5 3,
5, 7-17 odd, 21, 29, 43, 53, 55, 63-69 odd,
75, 81 |
| Oct
13-17 |
7.1-7.3 |
7.1
1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 15, 17, 19, 23, 27, 31,
43, 47
7.2 5, 7, 9, 15, 19, 23, 31, 37,
43, 47
7.3 1, 3, 7, 13, 17, 27, 29, 35 |
| Oct 20-24 |
7.4, 7.5, 7.8 |
7.4
1, 3, 5, 11, 15, 17, 19, 25, 29, 39,
41, 59
7.5 3, 7, 9, 13, 17, 21, 23, 27,
31, 33, 41, 45, 49, 61
7.8 5, 9, 11,
17, 21, 25, 37, 49, 53, 59, 75
|
| Oct
27-31 |
|
Review
Ch. 5 Ex 3, 5, 9-21 odd, 35, 43, 45, 49, 53, 61, 67
Review
Ch. 7 Ex 1, 3, 7, 13, 17, 29, 33, 37, 41, 43, 45
6.1
1-13 odd, 31, 45 a-b, 49, 53
6.2
1-11 odd, 17, 31, 33, 35, 51, 53, 63, 65
|
| Nov 3-7 |
6.3, 8.1, 8.2 |
6.3
3, 5, 7,
9, 11, 13, 21, 23, 25, 37, 39, 41
8.1 1, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 19,
31, 35
8.2 1, 3, 9, 13,
15, 25, 31, 33 |
| Nov 10-14 |
11.1-11.3
|
11.1
1,
5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37,
49, 51, 53, 59, 63
11.2 9, 11, 17, 25,
31, 35, 41, 47, 49, 59
11.3 3, 7, 11, 17,
27, 31, 33, 39
|
| Nov 17-21 |
Review, Nov 17
|
|
|
| 11.4, 11.5 |
|
Review
Ch. 6 Ex 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 25
Review
Ch. 8 Ex 1, 3, 7, 15
Review
Ch. 11 Ex 1-15 odd, 27
11.4
1, 3, 6, 8, 12, 13, 15, 19, 27, 29,
30, 39, 42, 43, 45, 46
11.5 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 13, 17, 19, 21, 22, 23 |
|
|
11.6, 11.7 |
11.6
1, 4, 11, 13, 15, 19, 25, 27, 29, 31,
33, 35
11.7 1, 3, 5, 8, 9, 13, 17, 25, 27, 35, 39 |
| Dec 1-5 |
11.8-11.10 |
11.8
1,
3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 33, 35, 37
11.9 1,
3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 21, 23
11.10
1-19 odd, 25, 27, 33, 55 |
| Dec 8, 11 |
Review, Dec 8
|
Review
Ch. 11 Ex 17, 21, 23, 25, 31, 35, 37, 41, 43, 45, 47, 51, 59 |
|
MATH 4355 - Spring 2013
Mathematics of Signal Representations
Course Info. View syllabus.
First week. Overview. Vector spaces. Functions as vectors. Linear independence. Bases. A
Matlab Cheatsheet may help with elementary Matlab operations needed for the homework, see also
the more verbose guide
Getting Started with Matlab. Homework: Assignment 1
is due on Thursday, Jan 24.
Second week. Fundamental inequalities in inner product spaces. Orthogonality, orthogonal projections.
Least squares property of orthogonal projections. Orthogonal projections and orthogonal subspaces. Homework: Assignment 2
is due on Thursday, Jan 31.
Third week. Fourier series and orthogonality. Trigonometric identities. Fourier coefficients of even
or odd functions. Homework: Assignment 3
is due on Thursday, Feb 7.
Fourth week. Conditions for pointwise convergence of Fourier series. Dirichlet kernel. Consequence of pointwise convergence: series expression for pi. Uniform convergence of Fourier series. Homework: Assignment 4
is deferred until Tuesday, Feb 19.
Fifth week. Fourier series on other intervals. Complex form of Fourier series. Parseval identity.
Convergence in square norm. The updated (3/5/13) course notes give a brief summary of the material up to the Fourier transform. Homework: Assignment 5
is deferred until Tuesday, Feb 26.
Sixth week. Fourier transform. Relating FT of related functions.
Plancherel theorem. Orthogonality of shifted copies of the sinc function.
Sampling theorem. Uniform and square-norm convergence.
Homework: Assignment 6
is due Tuesday, Mar 5.
Midterm exam: March 7, 2:30-4:30pm, AH 12 (basement of
Agnes Arnold Hall), bring Student ID, pen, pencil. Formula sheet will be provided.
The material covers everything up to and including the Fourier transform
properties, and the Plancherel theorem. The sampling theorem is NOT included.
A practice exam may be
useful to check whether your review was successful.
Seventh week. Convolutions and filters. Convolutions and the Fourier transform. Causality.
Homework: Assignment 7
is deferred until Tuesday, April 2.
Eighth week. Analog versus digital filters. Decay of analog impulse response vs. decay
of coefficients for digital convolution. Oversampling. Homework:
Assignment 8
is deferred until Tuesday, April 9.
Ninth week. Spaces of piecewise constant functions, resolution levels,
and the Haar wavelet. Homework: Assignment 9
is deferred until Tuesday, April 16 .
Tenth week. Haar decomposition and reconstruction algorithms. Relationship between
coefficients in expansions using orthonormal bases for Vj or Vj-1 and Wj-1,
in terms of filtering and up/downsampling. Block diagrams.
Homework: Assignment 10
is due Thursday, April 18.
Eleventh week. Properties of Haar wavelets, decomposition and reconstruction. Filtering with wavelets. Vanishing coefficients in subband decomposition for piecewise constant functions. Multiresolution Analysis. Daubechies wavelets. Homework: Assignment 11
is due Thursday, April 25.
Review session: Tu, April 30, 2:30-4pm. Final Exam: Tu, May 7,
2:00-5pm (in our usual classroom, as scheduled by registrar), bring Student ID, pen, pencil. Formula sheet will be provided.
Exam topics: Inner product spaces,
L2(R) and l2(Z), orthonormal bases, orthogonal projections onto subspaces (with given orthonormal basis or vector-space basis),
least squares approximations, convergence for sequences or series of functions (in L2, pointwise, or uniform), Fourier series on [-π,π] or on [-a,a], real and complex form, symmetries, convergence
of Fourier series (unif, pointwise, in L2), Parseval's identity,
Fourier transform, properties of the FT, sampling theorem for bandlimited functions, convolutions, causality, digital and analog filters, low-pass filters, Butterworth filters, (excluded material: periodic sequences, Discrete Fourier Transform and its properties), spaces of piecewise constant functions and corresponding orthogonal projections, Haar decomposition, Haar scaling function and wavelet, Vj and Wj, Haar reconstruction algorithm, expression in terms of filtering (discrete convolution) and up/downsampling,
multiresolution analysis, properties of scaling functions, two-scale relation, from scaling coefficients {pk} to P(z), quadrature mirror filter condition. (Excluded: Daubechies wavelet).
MATH 6304 - Fall 2012
Theory of Matrices
Course Info. View syllabus.
First week. Overwiew and review. Matrices as linear maps, range and kernel, rank and nullity.
Dot product and orthogonality. Orthogonal projection. Gram Schmidt procedure.
Trace and determinant. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Similarity.
Second week. Determinant and invertibility. Diagonalization. Sufficient and necessary
conditions for diagonalizability. Algebraic and geometric
multiplicity of eigenvalues.
Simultaneous diagonalization. Commuting matrices.
Third week. Invariant subspaces. Commuting families having a common eigenvector.
Families of diagonalizable matrices, simultaneous diagonalization and commutativity.
Hermitian and skew-Hermitian matrices. Polarization identity.
Unitary matrices. Householder transformations. Unitary equivalence.
Fourth week. Schur triangularization. Normal matrices. Unitary diagonalizability and normality.
Cayley Hamilton. Block diagonalization
with triangular blocks. Diagonalizable perturbations.
Fifth week. QR factorization and QR algorithm. Cholesky factorization.
Real matrices. Orthogonoal diagonalization for symmetric matrices. Block triangularization
for real matrices.
Sixth week. Block diagonalization for real orthogonal
matrices. Jordan normal form for nilpotent matrices.
Jordan form. Applications to matrix exponentials.
Seventh week. Variational characterization of eigenvalues for
Hermitian matrices. Courant-Fischer theorem. Weyl's theorem for eigenvalue
estimates of low-rank perturbations
Eighth week. Weyl's eigenvalue estimates for sums of Hermitian matrices.
Ninth week. An example for low-rank perturbations. Eigenvalue interlacing for principal submatrices
More eigenvalue interlacing. Generalized Rayleigh-Ritz principle.
Majorization.
Tenth week. Majorization of eigenvalues by diagonal entries.
Singular value decomposition. Singular values vs. eigenvalues.
Interlacing of singular values for submatrices.
Eleventh week. Interlacing of singular values for sums of matrices. Polar decomposition.
Least-squares problem.
The normal equation for linear systems. Abbreviated singular value decomposition.
Twelfth week. Matrix norms. From the Hilbert-Schmidt inner product to the Euclidean/Frobenius norm.
Matrix norm and spectral radius.
Thanksgiving week. Gelfand formula and Gersgorin's circle theorem.
Fourteenth week. Refined estimates for Gersgorin disks. Consequences of Gersgorin for invertibility
of matrices. Introduction to frame theory.
MATH 4310/BIOL6317 - Fall 2011
Biostatistics
Course Info. View syllabus.
First week. Overwiew. Probability measures. Computing probabilities.
Slides from first class.
Homework Set 1, due Thursday, September 1, 1pm.
Second week. Random variables. Cumulative distribution function. Quantiles.
Mean and variance. Chebyshev inequality. Independence. Optional recap on calculus essentials,
Wed, 10-11am, 646 PGH.
Classroom change. From Tuesday, September 6, we are in Farish Hall, FH 135.
Homework Set 2, due Thursday, September 8, 1pm.
Third week. Variance of the sample mean. Standard error of the sample mean. Sample variance.
Sample standard error. Conditional probabilities. Bayes's rule. Sensitivity and specificity of a diagnostic test.
Homework Set 3, deferred to Tuesday, September 20, 1pm.
Fourth week. Diagnostic likelihood ratios and intepreting the outcome of a test result. Likelihoods. Likelihood ratios.
Example: coin flips and biasedness hypotheses. Binomial distribution and maximum likelihood estimator.
Introduction to R. For the next homework and in the future, you may find the notes on R by Dr. Peters, Basics,
Graphics,
Statistics Functions and Regression, etc
helpful.
Homework Set 4, due Thursday, September 22, 1pm.
Fifth week. Normal and standard normal distributions. Conversion between quantiles.
Computing probabilities in the standardized form. Maximum likelhood estimation of the mean for i.i.d normal random
variables with known variance. MLE for mean and variance. Law of large numbers and consistent estimators.
Central limit theorem.
Homework Set 5, deferred to Tuesday, October 4, 1pm.
Sixth week. Central limit theorem and estimating probabilities for finding sample averages in a given
interval. Confidence intervals for unknown means. Chi-squared distribution and confidence intervals
for the variance.
Homework Set 6, due Thursday, October 6, 1pm.
Seventh week. T-distribution and confindence intervals for small sample sizes.
Confidence intervals for paired observations.
Confidence intervals for the success probability of small sequences of Bernoulli trials.
Summary of lectures.
Homework Set 7, due Thursday, October 13, 1pm.
Midterm exam. October 20, 1pm. Note the date was changed by unanimous vote of all students in class! Bring your ID, a scientific calculator, and a pen. The Summary of the lectures relevant for the midterm has been updated.
Review session on Wednesday, Oct 19, 1:30-3pm, PGH 646.
Eighth week. Hypothesis testing. Z-score. P-value. T-test. Equivalence between hypothesis testing (with two-sided
alternative) and computing the confidence interval. Computing power. Paired observations.
Homework Set 8, due Thursday, November 3, 1pm. For students enrolled
in Biol6317, start working on Project 1 as part of the assignment. The project
is due November 10.
Ninth week. Testing for independent groups. Testing for equal variance.
Testing of binomial proportions. Testing for equality of binomial proportions between
independent groups.
Homework Set 9, due Thursday, November 10, 1pm. For students enrolled
in Biol6317, complete Project 1 as part of the assignment.
Tenth week. Relative risk. Delta method for estimating standard errors. Odds ratio.
Fisher's exact test. Hypergeometric distribution. One and two-sided alternatives.
Computing p-values with the Monte Carlo method.
Homework Set 10, due Thursday, November 17, 1pm. For students enrolled
in Biol6317, complete Project 2 as part of the assignment.
Eleventh week. Chi-squared testing for equality of proportions and for independence, for
2x2 tables from case-control studies and larger tables with more categories/relative proportions.
Homework Set 11, due Thursday, December 1, 1pm. For students enrolled
in Biol6317, complete Project 3 as part of the assignment.
Twelfth week. Familywise error and Bonferroni procedure. False discovery rate. Non-parametric tests
and Monte-Carlo methods.
Review session for the final on Friday, Dec 9, 3-5pm, PGH 646. The duration of the final is
3 hours. The Summary of the lectures has been updated to include material up to the final.
MATH 6321 - Spring 2011
Theory of functions of a real variable, part II
Course Info. View syllabus.
First week. Banach spaces. Bounded linear maps. Baire's theorem.
Second week. Banach-Steinhaus theorem. Open mapping theorem. Theorem of bounded inverese.
Closed graph theorem.
Third week. Application to convergence of Fourier series. Fourier series as a map
from L1 into c0, but not onto!
Fourth week. Hahn-Banach theorem (real and complex version). Uniqueness of extensions. The disk algebra and
the Poisson kernel.
Fifth week. Complex measures. Total variantion measure. Lebesgue decomposition.
Absolute continuity. Radon-Nikodym(-Lebesgue) theorem.
Sixth week. The continuity in absolute continuity. Polar decomposition. Hahn decomposition.
Midterm exam. Tu, Mar 8, in class, with take-home part due on Thursday, Mar 10, 2:30pm. Closed book.
To see how well you are prepared, take a
practice exam. Review session Friday, March 4, 3:30-5:30pm, in SEC 203. Office hours are extended to Tuesday 9:30-11am.
Eighth week. Duality between Lp and Lq, including p=1. C0(X), the space of continuous
functions vanishing at infinity, on a locally compact Hausdorff space X.
Ninth week. Regularity of complex measures. Duality between regular complex measures and C0, another version
of the Riesz representation theorem. Consequence of the Riesz representation theorem (Ch. 6, Ex. 4).
Tenth week. Differentiation. Lebesgue points. Maximal function. Fundamental theorem of calculus.
Eleventh week. Product algebras and product measures. Fubini's theorem. Convolution.
Product measures and completion.
Twelfth weeek. Fourier transform. Elementary properties. Inversion theorem.
Final exam, as scheduled by the registrar: May 10, 2-5pm, in class. Review session on May 9,
4-7pm, PGH 348. Closed book. To see how well you are prepared,
take a practice exam.
To study for the prelim, please review the course material and work through recommended problems: Chapter 1: 1, 4,
5, 7, 8, 12; Chapter 2: 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 21, 22;
Chapter 3: 1, 4, 5, 7, 10, 14 a and d; Chapter 4: Problems 1-5, 7, 9; Chapter 5: 2, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18;
Chapter 6: 2, 3, 4, 5, 10 a-b, 13; Chapter 7: 1, 10, 11, 12a-b, 14, 23;
Chapter 8: 2, 3, 4, 5a-d, 12, 14, 15. Chapter 9: 2, 6, 8.
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MATH 3364 - Fall 2010
Introduction to complex analysis
Course Info. View syllabus.
First week. Algebra of complex numbers. Point representation. Modulus, triangle inequalities.
Complex conjugation. Polar form of complex numbers.
Homework Set 1, due Thursday, Sep 2, 11:30am. Ch. 1.1: 5 a-c, 6 a-c, 7 a-c, 9, 14 (use notation z=(x,y)), 15, 17, 19 (use z=(x,y)); Ch. 1.2: 3, 4 only plot points for z = 3-2i, 7 c-d (start explanation by writing equations for x and y).
Second week. Trigonometric identities and the complex exponential, de Moivre's identity. Integrating powers of trigonometric functions. The Mandelbrot set. n-th roots, n-th roots of unity. Geometric series and n-th roots. Sets in the complex plane. Domain and range of complex functions. The exponential function. Limits.
Homework Set 2, due Thursday, Sep 9, 11:30am. Ch. 1.3: 3, 5 a-d, 7 f-h, 13; Ch. 1.4: 1 a-c, 12 a-b , 13 a-b; Ch. 1.5: 4, 5 d-f, 10.
Third week. Limits and continuity. Rules for limits and continuity. Zeros and continuity. Differentiability.
Differentiation rules. Cauchy-Riemann Differential Equations and differentiability. Harmonic functions.
Homework Set 3, due Thursday, Sep 16, 11:30am. Ch. 2.1: 1 a,c,f, 3 a-b, 8 a-c; Ch 2.2:
7 a-c,f, 11 b-c, 17, 21 a-d; Ch 2.3 7 b-d, 9 a-b, 11 a-b,f (discuss differentiability and conclude about analyticity); Ch 2.4: 1 a-c, 3, 5, 10.
Fourth and fifth week. Level curves of real and imaginary parts of analytic functions.
Polynomials and rational functions. Complex trigonometric functions. The logarithm. Inverse
trigonometric functions.
Homework Set 4, due Thursday, Sep 30, 11:30am. Ch. 2.5: 1 a-c, 3 a,b,d,e, 8 a-c, 12;
Ch. 3.2: 7, 9 a,c,e, 12 a, 17 a,b,c; Ch. 3.3: 1 a,b,c,d, 16; Ch. 3.5: 1 a-d, 10.
First midterm exam, October 5, in class. Material up to and including Homework Set 4.
Bring pen, pencil, student ID but no calculator! Review session on Thursday, Sep 30,
5-7pm, in AH 16.
Sixth week. Smooth arcs, curves, contours. Parametrization. Contour integrals. Reparametrization invariance.
Fundamental theorem of calculus.
Homework Set 5, due Thursday, Oct 21, 11:30am. Ch. 4.1: 1 a,b,d, 8; Ch. 4.2: 3 a,b,c, 5, 6, 8, 9;
Ch. 4.3: 1 a,b,d,e, 4 (explain briefly); Ch. 4.4: 3 a,b,d, 10 a,b,c,e, 13, 15, 17.
Seventh week. Cauchy formulas and their consequences: Liouville's theorem, maximum modulus and
fundamental theorem of algebra. Maxima/minima of harmonic functions.
Homework Set 6, due Thursday, Oct 28, 11:30am. Ch. 4.4: 18 a-d; Ch. 4.5: 1, 3 a,b,c,f, 4 a,b, 5, 6, 7;
Ch. 4.6: 1, 2, 3, 5, 16, 17, 19.
Eighth week. Sequences and series of complex numbers. Convergence tests. Absolute convergence.
Sequences and series of functions. Taylor series and its convergence.
Homework Set 7, due Thursday, Nov 4, 11:30am. Ch. 5.1: 1 a-c, 2 a-d, 7 a-c, 11 a-c; Ch. 5.2: 1 a,b,e,
2 (for a,b,e only), 5 a,b,e, 7, 11 a, b, 18 a.
Ninth week. Power series. Radius of convergence. Uniform convergence. Relation to Taylor series. Term-by-term differentiation
and integration.
Homework Set 8, due Thursday, Nov 11, 11:30am. Ch. 5.2: 3 a,b,c, 13; Ch. 5.3: 2, 3 a,b,c,d,f, 5 a-d,
6 a-c, 7, 10, 13 a,b.
Tenth week. Solutions to differential equations by power series.
Laurent series. Evaluating contour integrals by Laurent series. Residues.
Second midterm exam, November 16, in class.
Material up to and including Homework Set 8.
Bring pen, pencil, student ID but no calculator.
Review session on Monday, Nov 15, 5:30-7:30pm, 348 PGH.
Eleventh week. Integrals of trigonometric functions and rational functions.
Zeros and poles. Integrals involving exponentials.
Homework Set 9, due Monday, Dec 6, 11:30am, in PGH 604. Ch. 5.6: 1 a,b,d, 2; Ch. 6.1: 1 a-d, 3 a,b,e;
Ch. 6.2: 1, 4, 8; Ch. 6.3: 1, 2, 3, 10 a, 11.
Makeup Midterm for eligible students. Tuesday, Dec 7, 11:30am-12:50pm. Material
from Homework Sets 1-8 (covering both midterms). To be eligible, submit
documentation for the missed midterm no later than Thursday, Dec 2.
Review for final exam. Thursday, Dec 9, 5-7:30pm, PGH 646.
Final exam, December 14, 11am-1:30pm, AH 108. Bring pen, pencil, student ID but
no calculator! Cell phones will need to be switched off during the exam.
MATH 6320 - Fall 2010
Theory of functions of a real variable
Course Info. View syllabus.
First week. Set-theoretic notation. Topologies, bases, metric spaces. Sigma-algebras. Generating sigma-algebras. Measurable functions. Borel sets. Borel-measurability. Continuity. Compositions of functions. Other measurability-preserving manipulations of functions. Lim inf and lim sup. Pointwise limits of measurable functions.
Second week. Measures. Properties of measures. Integrals of simple functions. Monotonicity. Integrals of non-negative measurable functions. Properties of integrals. Monotone convergence.
Third week. More properties of integrals. L1 space of integrable functions, vector space property. Functions vs. measures.
Fourth and fifth week. Halmos's approach to measures. Rings, sigma-rings, monotone class. Sigma rings and monotone classes
generated by rings. The Lebesgue measure.
Sixth week. Topological preliminaries. Riesz representation theorem. Regularity of Borel measures. Lebesgue measure
on Rd via Riesz representation theorem.
Midterm exam. Tu, Oct 26, 5:30-7:30, AH 15. Closed book. To see how well you are prepared, take a
practice exam. Office hours are extended to Tuesday 9:30-11am.
Seventh week. Jensen's, Hölder and Minkowski's inequalities.
Eighth week. Essential supremum. Space of essentially bounded functions. Completeness of Lp-spaces.
Approximation properties.
Ninth and tenth week. Hilbert spaces. Riesz representation theorem
for bounded linear functionals on Hilbert spaces. Closed subspaces and orthogonal projections.
Orthonormal bases. Fourier series.
Eleventh week. Banach spaces.
Final exam. Th, Dec 9, 2:30-5pm, 350 PGH. Closed book. To see how well you are prepared,
take a practice exam.
MATH 6397 - Spring 2010
High-dimensional measures and geometry
Course Info. View syllabus.
First week. The surface measure on high-dimensional spheres and the standard Gaussian
measures (notes). Projections onto subspaces and length
(notes).
Second week. The Johnson-Lindenstrauss Lemma (notes).
Bounds for the Laplace transform on the boolean cube (notes).
Third week. The martingale method for estimating Laplace transforms (notes). Concentration around the mean.
Application of the martingale method to the boolean cube. Concentration in product spaces
and law of large numbers (notes).
Fourth week. Optimal asymptotics for the coin toss (notes).
General results in product spaces (notes).
Fifth week. Back to the fair and unfair coin, and Gaussians as limits of projected spherical
measures (notes). Higher-dimensional Gaussians as
projected spherical measures (notes).
Sixth week. Concentration about the median for spheres. Concentration about the mean
for Gaussian measures (notes).
Seventh week. Finishing concentration about the mean for Gaussians (notes) and deduce
concentration about the mean for spheres (notes).
Eighth week. Concentration on subspaces (notes). Compressive sensing
(notes).
Ninth week. Prekopa-Leindler inequality, isoperimetric inequality (notes).
Brunn-Minkowski inequality. Concentration on the sphere and on strictly convex surfaces (notes).
Tenth week. Concentration for strictly log-concave measures (notes).
Eleventh week. Reverse Holder (notes)
and reverse Jensen-type inequalities for norms (notes).
Twelfth week. Approximating the ball with polytopes (notes). Edge counts and the graph Laplacian (notes).
Thirteenth week. Growth rates of subsets of graphs (notes). Concentration on graphs (notes).
MATH 4397/6397 - Fall 2009
Biostatistics
Course Info. View syllabus.
Week 1. We are covering parts of Rosner, Ch. 3.1-3.5, 4.1-4.3 and 5.1-5.2.
Students who were absent during this week may want to consult
notes for week 1 to see
a summary of the material.
Week 2. Still covering above sections in Rosner and, in addition, 4.4, 4.5.
Homework Set 1,
due Thursday, Sep 3, 2009.
Week 3. Completing 4.4, 4.5, and 4.9. A Calculus-Lab for anyone who wants to
brush up a little will be held on Tuesday, Sep 8, 1:30pm. Either be at my office
(PGH 604) before 1:30 or come to PGH 646 directly.
Homework Set 2,
due Thursday, Sep 10, 2009.
Week 4. Conditional probability, Bayes's rule, diagnostic testing, Ch. 3.6-3.9. Likelihood, Bernoulli experiments and binomial distribution, Ch 4.8, 4.9, 5.1-5.6.
Homework Set 3.
For this homework and in the future, you may find the notes on R by Dr. Peters, Basics,
Graphics,
Statistics Functions and Regression, etc
helpful.
Week 5. Maximum likelihood estimates for binomial and normal random variables. Law of large numbers and
central limit theorem, Ch 5.1-5.6, 6.1, 6.2, 6.5.
Homework Set 4,
due Thursday, Sep 24, 2009,.
Week 6. Confidence intervals for the mean and variance of a normal r.v., chi-square distribution,
Gosset's t-distribution. Confidence intervals for binomial
distribution: Wald interval, Agresti-Coull interval.
Homework Set 5,
due Thursday, Oct 1, 2009.
Week 7. Confidence interval for binomials distributions, continued. Independent group comparisons
with t-distribution confidence interval, equal and unequal variances [Ch. 8.5, 8.7].
Special session on set-theoretic problems and on computing with
random variables or their densities (early homework), Thursday 11am-noon, PGH 646.
Homework Set 6,
due Thursday, Oct 8, 2009.
Week 8. Displaying data: Histogram, stem and leaf plot, box plot, dot charts, qq-plots. Review.
Homework Set 7,
due Wednesday, Oct 14, 2009, at 2:30pm in 604 PGH.
The Midterm will be held on Tuesday, Oct 20, in class. Bring a pen or pencil, a scientific calculator,
and your student ID. The collection of
review topics might be hepful.
Week 9 and 10. Hypothesis testing [Ch. 7.1-7.7]. Z and T scores and associated tests. One and two-sided alternatives.
P-value and its interpretation. Power.
Homework Set 8,
due Thursday, Nov 5, 2009. For students
enrolled in Math 6397, Project 1
is part of the assignment. .
Week 11. Independent group tests with unequal variance [Ch. 8.6, 8.7]. F-test.
Hypothesis testing for binomial proportions [Ch. 7.10]. Wilson's score
and interval. Comparing two binomial proportions [Ch. 10.1, 10.2, 13.1-13.3].
Fisher's exact test [Ch. 10.3, 10.6-10.9].
Homework Set 9,
due Thursday, Nov 12, 2009.
Week 12. Chi-squared testing for equality of proportions and for independence [Ch. 10.2, 10.3, 10.6-9].
Controlling the Familywise Error (Bonferroni) and the expected False Discovery Rate (Benjamini and Hochberg)
[Ch. 12.4].
Homework Set 10,
due Thursday, Nov 19, 2009. For students
enrolled in Math 6397, Project 2
is part of the assignment.
Week 13. Nonparametric tests: sign test and Wilcoxon's signed rank, rank sum tests [Chs. 9.2-9.4].
Homework Set 11,
due Thursday, Dec 3, 2009. For students
enrolled in Math 6397, Project 3
is part of the assignment.
A review session for the final exam will be held on Thursday, Dec 10, 3-4:30pm, in 646 PGH.
The final exam will be on Tuesday, Dec 15, 2-5pm. Bring pen/pencil, calculator, ID, and
a sheet with your favorite formulas or insights. To prepare, you may find the
summary (updated 12/8!) of the course topics
useful.
MATH 4355 - Spring 2009
Mathematics of Signal Representations
Course Info. View syllabus.
Homework Assignment 1 is due Wednesday, February 4.
Homework Assignment 2 is due Wednesday, February 11 (extended to Monday, February 16).
Homework Assignment 3 is due Wednesday, February 18.
Homework Assignment 4 is due Wednesday, March 4.
A review session for the midterm will be held on Friday, March 6, 6-7:30pm, in 345 PGH.
To prepare you may consult Course Notes giving a brief outline of the material. Additional material is available in the slides of a short course, up to page 17. A
Practice Midterm could be helpful for finding out how well prepared you are.
The midterm exam will be on March 11, 5:30-7:30pm, in 345 PGH. Bring a pen or pencil and eraser. No calculators or other materials allowed.
Homework Assignment 5 is due Wednesday, April 1.
Homework Assignment 6 is deferred until Monday, April 13.
Homework Assignment 7 is deferred until Monday, April 20.
Homework Assignment 8 is due Wednesday, April 29.
Read the supplementary notes beforehand.
A review session for the final exam will be held on Friday, May 1, 6-8:00pm, in 345 PGH.
To prepare you may consult the updated Course Notes giving a brief outline of the material. Additional material is available in the slides of a short course, up to page 40.
The final exam will be on May 4, 5:30-8:30pm, in 345 PGH. Bring a pen or pencil and eraser. No calculators or other materials allowed.
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