1st Year PhD Student in Bioengineering (joint program with UCSF).

My research is on Computational Neuroscience; I use Spectral Graph Theory to understand the relationship between the brain's structural and functional connectivity. I use a lot of linear algebra day-to-day, but I've never yet had a formal course, so I'm excited to rebuild my foundation to support my research. I have essentially zero experience writing formal proofs, so I'm a little anxious about proof heavy questions…

So far I'm very happy with the conceptual approach to the class. I let MATLAB do my computing :)

TIL that diagonalizing a matrix is just a projection into a basis space that spans the matrix.

Future HW goes here…