C&O 367 - Nonlinear Programming (Winter Semester 2001)

( Information related to the teaching activities of Professor Henry Wolkowicz is available. The material is related to the course taught in the Winter Semester 2001. Please note that all files are accessible by anonymous ftp to orion.uwaterloo.ca:pub/henry/teaching/w01/367.w01. )

PLEASE In addition, please see (and use) the newsgroup uw.co.co367.

• course (virtual) handout
  • course outline
    (with homework details - solutions are on reserve in Davis library; folder call number is: UWD 1989)
  • Office Hours
• FINAL marks
• outline for midterm exam
• final exam scheduling
• outline for final exam.

--------------------- In Class 1 , Thursday, Jan. 4,
In Class 2 , Tuesday, Jan. 9 -- In Class 3 , Thursday, Jan. 11,
In Class 4 , Tuesday, Jan. 16 -- In Class 5 , Thursday, Jan. 18,
In Class 6 , Tuesday, Jan. 23 -- In Class 7 , Thursday, Jan. 25,
In Class 8 , Tuesday, Jan. 30 -- In Class 9 , Thursday, Feb. 1,
In Class 10 , Tuesday, Feb. 6 -- In Class 11 , Thursday, Feb. 8,
In Class 12 , Tuesday, Feb. 13 -- In Class 13 , Thursday, Feb. 15,
In Class 14 , Tuesday, Feb. 20 -- Spring Break, Thursday, Feb. 22,
Midterm Exam, Tuesday, Feb. 27 -- In Class 15 , Thursday, Mar. 1,
In Class 16 , Tuesday, Mar. 6 -- In Class 17 , Thursday, Mar. 8,
In Class 18 , Tuesday, Mar. 13 -- In Class 19 , Thursday, Mar. 15,
In Class 20 , Tuesday, Mar. 20 -- In Class 21 , Thursday, Mar. 22,
In Class 22 , Tuesday, Mar. 27 -- In Class 23 , Thursday, Mar. 29,


All the Classes and as a ps file

Useful Links

• Outline for CompMath Program
• Our Summer Undergraduate Research Program in C & O
• The Optimization Technology Center with notes and software - will solve problems online. Also, see the optimization tree, a graphical picture (clickable) of optimization topics. Also, nonlinear programs can be solved by e.g. LANCELOT see e.g. LANCELOT at OTC, and LANCELOT home page. We will be using LANCELOT in this course.
• An Operations Research home page with LOTS of useful information, e.g. jobs, FAQs, addresses, ...;
• An electronic optimization book; (from the Computational Science Education Project at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
• An FAQ (frequently asked questions) on nonlinear programming;
• An Building Freshman Intuition for Computational Science and Mathematics; an article by Charles Van Loan.

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Computing Environment

• Detailed information about student accounts on the MFCF web page.
• local (UofW) software information