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C&O 466/666 - Continuous Optimization
(Winter Semester 2003)

• Final Exam: Thursday April 10, 1-4PM, in MC 4064.
• Try the COIN-OR Open-Source Coding Contest, i.e. Beat the COIN-OR "Simple Branch and Bound" (SBB) code on the Miplib3 datasets

***BEWARE: under construction during the semester****

Please tell me of any problems with this material and/or the course in general.
Send email to me. In addition, please see (and use) the newsgroup uw.co.co666.

Available:

• course handout;
  • course outline;
  • Individual class outlines and complete list of class outlines (see below)
  • Office Hours;
  • Homework;
• syllabus for comprehensive exam
• Computing Environment

In Class 1 , Tuesday, Jan. 7 -- In Class 2 , Thursday, Jan. 9
In Class 3 , Tuesday, Jan. 14 -- In Class 4 , Thursday, Jan. 16
In Class 5 , Tuesday, Jan. 21 -- In Class 6 , Thursday, Jan. 22
In Class 6b/Seminar , Tuesday, Jan. 28, -- In Class 7-8 , Thursday, Jan. 30,
In Class 9 , Tuesday, Feb. 4, -- In Class 10 , Thursday, Feb. 6
In Class 11 , Tuesday, Feb. 11 -- In Class 12 , Thursday, Feb. 13,
In Class 13 , Tuesday, Feb. 18 -- Spring Break, Thursday, Feb. 20,
In Class 13A , Tuesday, Feb. 25 -- In Class 14 , Thursday, Feb. 27,
In Class 15 , Tuesday, Mar. 4 -- In Class 16 , Thursday, Mar. 6,
In Class 17 , Monday, Mar. 10 -- In Class 18 , Thursday, Mar. 20,
In Class 19 , Tuesday, Mar. 25 -- In Class 20 , Thursday, Mar. 27,
In Class 21 , Tuesday, Apr. 1 -- In Class 22 , Thursday, Apr. 3


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All the Classes, Please tell me if there are any comments/questions on this.

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Useful Links

• The book is complemented by the NEOS GUIDE, at http://www.mcs.anl.gov/home/otc/GUIDE.
  This is also called the The Optimization Technology Center with notes and software - will solve problems online. 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;

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Computing Environment

• Winter 2003: You can use MATLAB on many machines. If you are registered in the course, then you should be able to access matlab 6.5 on tuxor. Also, MATLAB 6.5 will be made the default on: agnesi, bacon, blanch, fenchel, fitch, maddison, merrill, mgc2000, and rees. If it is not the default, then you can use: /software/matlab-6.5/bin/matlab MATLAB should also be available on e.g. pythagoras.
• Information on computer accounts can be obtained using the unix command man mfcf-course-environment
• local (UofW) software information