COT 5615: Mathematical Methods for
Intelligent Systems I
Schedule: T 2, R 2-3
Location: CSE E122
Texts:
- Notes and on-line material
Instructor: Prof. Anand Rangarajan,
CSE E352. Phone: (352) 505 1583, email: anand@cise.ufl.edu
Teaching Assistant: Yupeng Yan, CSE
E309, email: yanyp.ta@gmail.com
Office hours: Anand: T
9:20-10:00AM, R 10:10-11AM or by appointment.
Yupeng: MWF 10:30-11:30AM
Grading:
- Homeworks: 30% (roughly biweekly).
- Two Midterms: 35% each. The first midterm will in all
likelihood be held on Thursday, October 15th, 2015 in class (R
2-3). The second midterm will be most likely be held on Tuesday,
December 8th, 2015. Time: TBA
Notes:
- Prerequisites: Basic calculus and probability theory
- Homeworks/programs will be assigned bi-weekly. We suggest
MATLAB for the programming exercises.
- We'll use E-learning to administer the course.
Syllabus
- Linear Algebra and Vector Spaces: matrix algebra,
eigenvectors, singular value decomposition (SVD), norms,
determinants, subspaces
- Hilbert Spaces: Elementary functional
analysis
- Probability Theory: Functions of a random variable,
moments, distances between distributions, basic
inference
- Information Theory: Convexity, Jensen's
inequality, entropy