Lectures

Lectures take place online Thursdays at 14-16, starting at April 23. See meeting rooms for technical details.

Please read the lecture page and watch the lecture videos linked on that page before the online lecture meeting. During the online meetings, we will mostly discuss open questions, close gaps, and deliver some additional material. Probably the online meetings will take less than 90 min.

Lecture notes can be found here.

Lecture 5

No lecture due to national holidays.

Lecture 3: Newton's method

Thursday May 7, 14-16 on zoom

Newton’s method: locally quadratic convergence, stepsize selection

Lecture 2: Steepest descent

Thursday April 30, 14-16 on zoom

Steepest descent aka gradient method: convergence, convergence speed, termination criterion.

Make sure not to have missed the contents of Exercise 1.