Optimisation 2006

• Course contents
• Basic course info
• Course program
• Formula sheet (pdf)
• Previous exams
• The list of theoretical questions on the exam (pdf)
  

News:

• Preliminary version of the solutions to the exam (may contain some missprints).
  
• When are the examination results finally available?
  
• We start extra seminars on Tuesdays 13:15-15:00 in (preliminary) MH:C. On the seminars I will present my solutions to the standard exercises and discuss further some theoretical questions and details around them. Certain weight is placed on logical argumentations.
• The application list for Lab 2 is ready.
  
• The course starts on Monday, August 28, at 15:15 in MA:1.
  

Laboratory Exercises:

• Lab1. Instruction for the Lab 1 (Postscript or Pdf). The MATLAB files needed are packed in
• for UNIX system lab1.tar (see the instruction how to deal with it).
• for PC/Windows lab1.arj (download arj.exe and unpack as arj x -y lab1.arj)
• Lab2. Instruction for the Lab 2 (Postscript or Pdf). The MATLAB files needed are packed in
• for UNIX system lab2.tar (see the instruction how to deal with it).
• for PC/Windows you can use tar.exe (to install tar.exe run self-extracting archive tar320g.exe)
  

Extra Material:

• Simplex method (Postscript or Pdf)
• Repetition (Postscript or Pdf)
  

Assignment (to be accomplished by November 21):

• Instruction for the assignment (Postscript or Pdf)
• The MATLAB files needed: 
• Alternative 1: phi1.m, phi2.m, data1.m and data2.m
• Alternative 2: grad.m and rosenbrock.m

Examination:

• Preliminary planned on the 21st of October.
  

Some Related Links:

• A good course of Stephen Boyd at Stanford University (with lecture notes and applications).
• Last year course.