Electrical & Computer Engin 679 - NumericalAlgorithms&Practices

Fall
2025
01
3.00
Eric Polizzi

TU TH 1:00PM 2:15PM

UMass Amherst
61830
Lederle Grad Res. Ctr rm A201
epolizzi@engin.umass.edu
64897
This course covers various topics Scientific Computing including: basic numerical techniques of linear algebra and their applications, data formats and practices, matrix computations with an emphasis on solving sparse linear systems of equations and eigenvalue problems. Students will learn about the state-of-the-art programming practices in numerical linear algebra, and will be introduced to numerical parallel algorithms and parallel programming with OpenMP, MPI and hybrid. For students to be successful in this course they should know Linear Algebra basics, and have interests in math and programing.

Open to Graduate students only.

Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.