C&O 367 - Nonlinear Programming (Winter Semester 2005)

( Information related to the teaching activities of Professor Henry Wolkowicz is available. The material is related to the course taught in the Winter Semester 2005. )

• course (virtual) handout
  • Office Hours
  • Homework (WARNING/REMINDER: Copying assignments is contrary to University policy. You must work on your assignments on your own.)
  • During the semester I will continue to send emails to everyone. Please tell the instructor if you have not been receiving these.

Useful Links

• Our Summer Undergraduate Research Program in C & O
• The Optimization Technology Center with notes and software - will solve problems online using the NEOS Server for Optimization. Also, see the optimization tree, a graphical picture (clickable) of optimization topics.
• 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

• You can use MATLAB on many machines on campus. An online course, which works with pretty well any browser that supports the Flash plug-in on Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS is available at: http://saw.uwaterloo.ca/matlab Click: "MATLAB Mastery I" to start.
• Detailed information about student accounts on the MFCF web page.
• Computer Help & Information Place (CHIP)