Welcome to the course webpage for the Summer 2022 (Second Session) manifestation of MATH 117: Advanced Linear Algebra at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Daily Assignments (10% of final grade)

• Assignment Description: There will be approximately 13 Daily Assignments. They will typically be assigned after each lecture, unless an exam is being released instead. Daily Assignments will generally be short, consisting of a few exercises related to the days topics. In general, the problems will be computational in nature. You will submit a write-up of your solutions to the exercises via gradescope. Your write-up may be handwritten, but I encourage you to write it using $\LaTeX$. The deadline to submit your write-up is always 11:59PM the next day.
• Purpose: We will encounter new definitions, theorems, and techniques every day. The best way to internalize all of this new information is to practice, and in such a fast-paced course it is imperative to practice daily. Daily Assignments will give you an opportunity to practice what you learned in the lecture that day. The assignments are low-stakes, in the sense that your grade is based on effort and participation, see below.
• Basis for Evaluation: Daily assignments are evaluated on a Pass/No Pass basis. For each daily assignment, you will either receive 1 point (a “Pass”) or 0 points (a “No Pass”). You will receive 1 point if you:
  • attend the relevant lecture;*
  • submit your assignment on time; and
  • demonstrate a good faith effort to complete all assigned exercises correctly.
  If your submission does not meet all of the above criteria, you will receive 0 points. Your lowest 2 scores will be dropped.

*Removed attendance criterion 7/24/22

Assignments, Templates, & Due Dates

The assignments and due dates will be posted in the table below. Additionally, I will provide the .tex files so that you have a template to start your write-up with.