Juan Carlos Ramírez

Research Interests

• Iterative methods for large sparse systems
• Grid-based numerical methods for PDE
• First-order non-smooth optimization

About me:

• Undergraduate B.A. (Licenciatura) from ITAM in Economics and Applied Mathematics
• I am a fan of Podcasts, Star Wars, and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
• Learning a little bit of Italian (Already know some German, and my default language is Spanish).

Useful Links:

• Visual Studio 2013.
• Project Euler. Practice programming via problem solving.
• Operator overloading Faq recommended templates for overloading operators in C++.
• Bandit blog Contains useful information about complexity of several optimization methods assuming different hypotheses.
• Master Theorem(Analysis of algorithms) Formula to compute asymptotic complexity bounds that arise from recursive algorithms.
• The Zen of Gradient Descent A derivation of Nesterov accelerated gradient in terms of Chebyshev polynomials.
• PIC40A JavaScript HW: Steps to program a Pocket Calculator
• Simple example of PHP form handling script:here
• Mouse event JavaScript handler: display coordinates inside box
• Rodney Dockter's JavaScript DOM animation with snake game. Students might benefit from looking at source code. HERE.
• Computerphile video with a nice explanation of the Halting Problem: