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CAAM   210 INTRO TO ENG COMPUTATION                 Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP III
Introduction to engineering and scientific computation:  Engineering
workstations, programming, software systems, and numerical methods.
Laboratory to illustrate the application of computational and
visualization methods to problem analysis.  Matlab serves as the primary
computational and display tool with supplementary programs written in C.
Only one of the courses Caam 210, 211 may be taken for credit.
Prereq- Math 101.
001 MWF     01:00PM-01:50PM BL*131   Cox, Steven                    *CURRENT ENR: 61

CAAM   321 INTRO TO REAL ANALYSIS                   Credits 3.00  Fall 99
Analysis of functions of a real variable.  Real numbers, completeness,
sequences and convergence, compactness, continuity, the derivative, the
Riemann integral, fundamental theorem of calculus, sequences and series
of functions, uniform convergence.  First of a two-semester sequence.
Prereq- Math 211 and 212 or permission of the instructor.
001 TTH     10:50AM-12:05PM DH*1075  Applegate, David               *CURRENT ENR: 7

CAAM   335 MATRIX ANALYSIS                          Credits 3.00  Fall 99
Equilibria and the solution of linear and linear least squares problems.
Dynamical systems and the eigenvalue problem with the Jordan form and
Laplace transform via complex integration.
Prereq- Math 211 and 212 and Caam 210 or 211.
001 MWF     11:00AM-11:50AM DH*1070  Kloucek, Petr                  *CURRENT ENR: 37
002 MWF     01:00PM-01:50PM DH*1070  Heinkenschloss, Matthias       *CURRENT ENR: 15

CAAM   376 INTRO TO MANAGEMENT SCIENCE              Credits 3.00  Fall 99
An introduction to operations research techniques that are useful in
managerial decision making.  The emphasis in the course is on
formulating models, evaluating their strengths and weaknesses, and
interpreting their solutions.  Applications are taken from finance,
production planning, transportation, inventory control, and other
management areas.
Prereq- a statistics course.
001 MWF     08:00AM-08:50AM DH*1064  Cook, William                  *CURRENT ENR: 63

CAAM   436 PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS I         Credits 3.00  Fall 99
Derivation and solution of partial differential equations of continuum
physics.  Basic concepts of continuum mechanics, ideal fluids,
Navier-Stokes equations, linear elasticity, acoustics.  Poisson problem,
Green's function, variational formulation, Sobolev spaces, Rayleigh-Ritz
principle, existence of weak solutions, justification of the finite
element method.  First of a two-semester sequence.
Prereq- Caam 321 and 322 or permission of the instructor.
001 TTH     09:25AM-10:40AM HB*427   Symes, William                 *CURRENT ENR: 9

CAAM   451 NUMERICAL LINEAR ALGEBRA                 Credits 3.00  Fall 99
Detailed study of numerical methods for the basic problems of linear
algebra.  Includes derivation, analysis, and computer implementation of
algorithms for the solution of linear systems, least squares problems,
eigenvalue problems, floating point arithmetic, rounding error analysis,
matrix and vector norms, and sensitivity analysis.
Prereq- Caam 335 or Math 355.
001 MWF     10:00AM-10:50AM DH*1046  Sorensen, Danny                *CURRENT ENR: 8

CAAM   453 NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND  ORDINARY DIFF EQ Credits 3.00  Fall 99
Numerical analysis of iterative methods for linear systems,
approximation and interpolation, and numerical solution of ordinary
differential equations.
Prereq- Math 211.
001 TTH     01:00PM-02:15PM DH*1042  Borcea, Liliana                *CURRENT ENR: 7

CAAM   460 OPTIMIZATION THEORY                      Credits 3.00  Fall 99
Derivation and application of necessity conditions and sufficiency
conditions for constrained optimization problems.
Prereq- Math 212, and Caam 335 or Math 355.
001 MWF     02:00PM-02:50PM DH*1064  Tapia, Richard                 *CURRENT ENR: 24

CAAM   470 INTRODUCTION TO GRAPH THEORY             Credits 3.00  Fall 99
Study of the structure and properties of graphs, together with a variety
of applications.  Includes paths, cycles, trees, connectivity,
matchings, colorings, planarity, directed graphs, and algorithms.
001 MWF     01:00PM-01:50PM DH*1042  Dean, Nathaniel                *CURRENT ENR: 7

CAAM   471 LINEAR PROGRAMMING                       Credits 3.00  Fall 99
Formulation of managerial and technical problems; simplex and revised
simplex methods; duality theory, optimality conditions and sensitivity
analysis; interior-point methods; selected applications and advanced
techniques.
Also offered as Econ 471.
001 MWF     09:00AM-09:50AM DH*1042  Audet, Charles                 *CURRENT ENR: 15

CAAM   474 THEORY OF LINEAR INEQUALITIES            Credits 3.00  Fall 99
This course studies systems of linear inequalities and their geometric
interpretation as polyhedra, with special attention to the theoretical
foundations of linear and integer programming, including Farkas' lemma,
duality, polarity, and the finite basis theorem.
001 TTH     02:30PM-03:50PM DH*1042  Bixby, Robert                  *CURRENT ENR: 9

CAAM   490 INDEPENDENT STUDY                        Credits 3.00  Fall 99
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 2

CAAM   491 INDEPENDENT STUDY                        Credits 1.00  Fall 99
001                                  TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0

CAAM   501 UNIX FOR SCIENTIFIC & ENGINEERING APPLIC Credits 1.00  Fall 99
This course is for engineering and science graduate students wishing to
use UNIX in their research.  Topics covered to be revised as necessary
per participants' request:  the Unix file system; shell interaction
(sch, tcsh, sh); customizing your environment; dealing with X windows;
elementary shell programming; make; revision control systems; compiling,
linking, debugging; performance monitoring and tuning; html.
Prereq- Prior computer experience.  Prior programming in C, C++ or
Fortran.
001 W       12:00PM-12:50PM DH*1042  Pearlman, Michael              *CURRENT ENR: 5

CAAM   563 ENGI APPROACH TO MATH PROGRAM            Credits 3.00  Fall 99
Minimization of functions of variables which are either unconstrained,
or subject to equality constraints, or subject to inequality
constraints, or subject to both equality and inequality constraints.
Analytical methods:  first-order conditions and second-order conditions.
Numerical methods:  first-order methods and second order methods.
Also offered as Mech 563.
001 TTH     04:00PM-05:20PM RL*231   Miele, Angelo                  *CURRENT ENR: 0

CAAM   574 INTEGER PROGRAMMING                      Credits 3.00  Fall 99
Applications theory and computational methods in pure and mixed
integer programming.  Special problem structures.
001 W       02:00PM-05:00PM DH*1046  Cook, William                  *CURRENT ENR: 6

CAAM   581 MATHEMATICAL PROBABILITY I               Credits 3.00  Fall 99
Measure-theoretic foundations of probability for students who need
access to advanced mathematical literature in probability and random
processes.
Prereq- Caam 381.
001 MWF     10:00AM-10:50AM PL*117   Olofsson, Peter                *CURRENT ENR: 3

CAAM   590 INDEPENDENT STUDY                        Credits 1.00  Fall 99
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 7

CAAM   654 TOPICS IN OPTIMIZATION                   Credits 3.00  Fall 99
Content varies from year to year.
001 W       03:00PM-05:00PM DH*1070  Tapia, Richard                 *CURRENT ENR: 3

CAAM   800 THESIS                                   Credits 0.00  Fall 99
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 12

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