Announcement

• I’ll be out of town next week. Professor Kenneth Lange will lecture on MM algorithms on 5/21 and 5/23. It’s a good opportunity for you to interact with the world leading expert on this subject.

  His book chapter and slides are posted on course webpage. The password for the book chapter is MMAlgorithms.

• No instructor office hours on 5/21 and 5/23. I’ll answer emails. TA office hours as usual.

• IDRE workshops:

  • Python for High Performance Computing, May 21 @ 2p-4p.
  • Tableau Public, May 30 @ 11:30a-1:30p.
  • Running Applications on the Hoffman2 Cluster: An Introduction, May 30 @ 2p-4p.
  • An Overview of SAS Studio and Tools for Using SAS More Efficiently, May 31 @ 10a-11a.
  • Introduction to Jupyter Notebooks, May 31 @ 1p-2p.
  • Using Jupyter for Education, May 31 @ 2p-3p.
  • Using Jupyter for Research and Collaboration, May 21 @ 3p-4p.

• Sign-up sheet.

Today

• Eigen-decomposition and SVD (cont’d).

• Optimizaiton introduction.