The schedule is tentative, it will very likely change as we go. Links to the course material will be provided in the schedule below before each class.

The course schedule

Week Tuesday Thursday
01 Oct 14
No class 
Oct 16
No class 
02 Oct 21
Introduction / organization 
[slides, 8up]
Oct 23
Linear algebra (vector, matrices) 
[slides, 8up]
03 Oct 28
Linear algebra (dot product) 
Oct 30
Linear algebra (solving systems of equations, matrix inverse) 
[slides, 8up]
04 Nov 04
Linear algebra (solving systems of equations, matrix inverse) 
Nov 06
Linear algebra (projection, regression) 
[slides, 8up]
05 Nov 11
Linear algebra (projection, regression) 
Nov 13
Linear algebra (projection, regression) 
06 Nov 18
Linear algebra (projection, regression) 
Nov 20
Linear algebra (eigenvalues/eigenvectors) 
[slides, 8up]
07 Nov 25
Linear algebra (eigenvalues/eigenvectors) 
Nov 27
Linear algebra (SVD) 
[slides, 8up]
08 Dec 02
Calculus 
[slides, 8up]
Dec 04
Probability theory 
09 Dec 09
Probability theory 
Dec 11
Information Theory 
10 Dec 16
Summary 
Dec 18
Regression / Wrap up 
11 Dec 23
Sem. break
Dec 25
Sem. break
12 Dec 30
Sem. break
Jan 01
Sem. break
13 Jan 06
Sem. break
Jan 08
Generalization, bias, variance, evalation 
14 Jan 13
Classification 
Jan 15
Classification 
15 Jan 20
Classification 
Jan 22
Clustering 
16 Jan 27
Clustering 
Jan 29
Non-linearity and NN intro 
17 Feb 03
Summary & QA 
Feb 05
Exam