Reading for  lectures: Read BEFORE lecture
  
  topic                                        reading (in addition to hw1)

  Lect 4   begin RKHS                          *Aronszajn pgs 337-347
  
  Lect 5   RKHS, First variational problem     Wikipedia on Reproducing Kernel
                                               Hilbert Space, browse web on
					       RKHS
  
  Lect 6   Second variational problem           book-Sect 1.3, *Kimeldorf and Wahba  
              polynomial spline as solution to   kimeldorf.wahba.pdf 
	      second variational problem, 
	      review of matrix decompositions            
  
  Lect  7   Choosing the smoothing parameter    book-Chap 4, *Craven and Wahba
                      (Gaussian noise)            craven.wahba.pdf
  
  Lect  8   The thin plate spline               book Section 2.4 
                                                   *Wahba and Wendelberger
						   wahba.wendelberger.pdf
						   *Gu and Wahba
						   gu.wahba.tps.93.pdf

book = Spline Models for Observational Data, SIAM 1990. 
Available online with your net id. Search for Spline 

http://epubs.siam.org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/ebooks

*these papers are in the  pdf1 directory