CIS 515, Fall 2018
Fundamentals of Linear Algebra and Optimization

Course Information
September 20 2018

Coordinates:

Moore 212, Monday-Wednesday, noon-1:30pm

Instructor:

Jean H. Gallier, GRW 476, 8-4405, jean@cis.upenn.edu

TAs:

Jocelyn Quaintance, jocelynq@seas.upenn.edu
Christine Allen-Blanchet, allec@seas.upenn.edu

Office Hours:

Jean: Mon, Wed, 4-5pm, fourth floor Lounge, GRW

Graders:

** Welcome to CIS 515 !**
** We have been moved to Moore 212 **
** HW1 and Project 1 are online! **
** The order of the chapters in the notes has changed **

Whenever possible and relevant, I will make connections with topics covered in CIS520 (Machine Learning) and CIS581 (Computer vision and computational photography)

Textbook:

There will be no official textbook(s) but I will use material from several sources; see Slides and Notes

Latex Help:

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A Word of Advice :

Expect to be held to high standards, and conversely! In addition to transparencies, I will distribute lecture notes. Please, read the course notes regularly, and start working early on the problems sets. They will be hard! Take pride in your work. Be clear, rigorous, neat, and concise. Preferably, use a good text processor, such as LATEX, to write up your solutions.

Due to the difficulty of the homework problems and in order to give you an opportunity to learn how to collaborate more effectively (I do not mean "copy"), I will allow you to work in small groups. A group consists of AT MOST THREE students.

You are allowed to collaborate with the same person(s) an unrestricted number of times.
Only one homework submission per group. All members of a group will get the SAME grade on a homework or a project (please, list all names in a group).

It is forbidden to use solutions of problems posted on the internet. If you use resources other than the textbook (or the recommended textbooks) or the class notes, you must cite these references.

Plagiarism Policy

I assume that you are all responsible adults.
Copying old solutions verbatim or blatantly isomorphic solutions are easily detectable.
DO NOT copy solutions from old solution sheets, from books, from solutions posted on the internet, or from friend!
Either credit will be split among the perpetrators, or worse!

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