Class notes

Aug. 23: Notes 1 Variables in traffic modeling.

Aug. 25: Notes 2 Continuity equation.

Aug. 27: Notes 3 Basic model of driver's behavior.

Aug. 30: Notes 4 Density waves.

Sept. 1: Notes 5 Method of characteristics. Traffic light.

Sept. 3: Notes 6 Traffic light continued.

Sept. 8: Notes 7 Shocks: formation and dynamics.

Sept. 10: Notes 8 Example of a shock solution. Mathematica code shown in class: shock.nb

Sept. 13: Notes 9 Review of Fourier series.

Sept. 15: Notes 10 Fourier series and linear stability analysis of PDE solutions.

Sept. 17: Notes 11 Linear stability analysis of the time-delayed traffic model.

Sept. 22: Notes 13 Synchronization: two oscillators.

Sept. 24: Notes 14 Kuramoto model.

Sept. 27: Notes 15 Kuramoto's self-consistent solution I.

Sept. 29: Notes 16 Kuramoto's self-consistent solution II.

Oct. 1: Notes 17 Linear stability of the incoherent state.

Oct. 4: Notes 18 Face recognition: preliminaries.

Oct. 6: Notes 19 Singular value decomposition (SVD).

Oct. 8: Notes 20 Interpretation of SVD.

Oct. 11: Notes 21 Face recognition using eigenfaces.

Oct. 13: Notes 22 Least squares solution using SVD.

Oct. 25: Notes 24 Neural networks: introduction and Hopfield networks.

Oct. 27: Notes 25 Hopfield networks: multiple patterns using Hebb's rule.

Oct. 29: Notes 26 Memorizing correlated patterns. Mathematica code shown in class: Hopfield.zip

Nov. 1: Notes 27 Learning networks.

Nov. 3: Notes 28 Perceptrons: one layer.

Nov. 5: Notes 29 Error back-propagation.

Nov. 12: Notes 30 GPS I.

Nov. 15: Notes 31 GPS II.

Last changed: Sept. 6, 2010