C&O 466.666 - Continuous Optimization

There are ??? directories of files available: ***BEWARE: under construction****

• Notes, Midterm, and Assignments
• Computing Environment

Notes, Midterm, and Assignments

• The course outline;
• An Operations Research home page with LOTS of useful information, e.g. jobs, FAQs, addresses, ...;
• An electronic optimization book;
• An electronic book on conjugate gradients; see the Reports section for: An Introduction to the Conjugate Method Without the Agonizing Pain, August 1994.
• A tutorial on Newton-Raphson method, from the Univ. of Utah.
• An FAQ (frequently asked questions) on nonlinear programming;
• A directory of latex and dvi files contains course notes, assignments and solutions. There are latex and dvi files for the assignments and solutions, e.g. sol195.tex is the latex file for the solutions to assignment 1.
  The latex files include:
  • The course outline;
  • The midterm exam;

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Computing Environment

• Information on computer accounts can be obtained using the unix command

  man mfcf-course-environment

  A directory of matlab files contains matlab programs for assignment solutions as well as miscellaneous examples.
  For example:
  • Matlab Primer
  • Matlab FAQs
  • The simplex method solves a minimization LP with general equality and inequality constraints;