Weekly plans and update for week 38

Hi all and welcome back to fys3150/4150. Last week we started discussing eigenvalue solvers and project 2. We continue this week in particular with a detailed discussion of Jacobi's method and other parts of project 2 on Thursday, see either chapter 7 of the lecture notes or the slides on eigenvalue problems at http://compphysics.github.io/ComputationalPhysics/doc/pub/eigvalues/html/eigvalues-bs.html.

On Friday we discuss Householder's algorithm, the QR algorithm and how to find eigenvalues of a tridiagonal matrix more efficiently. We will also discuss an iterative method like Lanczos' method if we get time. 

During the lectures we will also discuss how to implement unit tests in c++ using for example the catch++ library, see https://github.com/catchorg/Catch2 and the code examples at https://github.com/CompPhysics/ComputationalPhysics/tree/master/doc/Projects/2019/Project2/CodeExamples/UnitTestscpp

During the lab we will only focus on the project, no special lectures. Only project work.

best wishes to you all,

Aram, Daniel, Halvard, Jonas and Morten