MATH 589 - Nonlinear Programming (Conjugate Duality and Optim)

Office hours: will be decided later

Info from department
Lecture announcement
Lecture log

Homeworks (3 planned)

• HW1 due Oct 31
• HW2 due Nov 26
• HW3 due if you want grade

Announcements

• Homework results (your score) will be available on the department webpage under Courses and Score reports.

Books

• Semidefinite programming and Approximation algorithms - in electronic form in the library
• Convex optimization - we used for the interior point method and survey of convex programs
• Nonlinear optimization - we used this book for KKT conditions, penalty methods
• Lectures from Discrete Geometry - Geometric introduction - polytopes and such
• Understanding and Using Linear Programming - introduction to LP

Bonus rules

• No laptops for updating Facebook status during the class.

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