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Terminated in academic year 2023/2024

Applied Algebra

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 470-4201/01
Abbreviation AA
Course title Applied Algebra
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Applied Mathematics
Course coordinator prof. RNDr. Zdeněk Dostál, DSc.

Subject syllabus

• An introduction to matrix decompositions with motivation and applications
• Spectral decomposition of a symmetric matrix
• Applications of the spectral decomposition: matrix functions, convergence of iterative methods, extremal properties of the eigenvalues
• QR decomposition – rank of the matrix, atable solution of linear systems, reflection
• SVD – low rank approximations of a matrix, image deblurring, image compression
• Approximate decompositions of large matrices and related linear algebra
• Tensor approximations – Kronecker product, tensors, tensor SVD, tensor train, image debluring
• Variational principle and least squares
• Total least squares
• Minimization of a quadratic function with equality constraints – KKT, duality, basic algorithms, SVM,
• Analytic geometry with matrix decompositions
• Inverse problems – Tichonov regularization, applications

Literature

N. Halko, P. G. Martinsson, J. A. Tropp: Finding Structure with Randomness:
Probabilistic Algorithms for Constructing Approximate Matrix Decompositions,
SIAM REVIEW, Vol. 53, No. 2, (2011)217–288


Matrix Analysis for Scientists and Engineers
by Alan J. Laub, SIAM, Philadelphia

Alan J. Laub, Matrix Analysis for Scientists and Engineers, SIAM, Philadelphia, 2005

Advised literature

Tamara G. Kolda, Brett W. Bader. Tensor Decompositions and Applications, SIAM Review, Vol. 51, No. 3, (2009)455–500

Carl D. Meyer, Matrix analysis and applied linear algebra, SIAM, Philadelphia, 2000

Dianne P. O'Leary, Scientific Computing with Case Studies, SIAM, Philadelphia 2009