2010/04/27: Second midterm syllabus: Calculus of variations, Green's and Stokes' theorems, Kolmogorov complexity and applications.

2010/04/23: We'll clear the backlog of the midterm, graded hws and project presentations in the next few days. Stay tuned.

2010/04/12: Homework 5 (due April 21). Cover and Thomas book: 7.1, 2, 3, 8

2010/03/24: Since CIS6930 is in group 29C, the second midterm will be held from 12:30PM-2:30PM on Thursday, April 29, 2010.

2010/03/24: Project presentations will be held on Wednesday, April 21 evening for about two hours. Each group will present for about 20 minutes.

2010/03/24: Homework 4 (due April 7). Gelfand book: 14, 15, 18, 19, 22.

2010/03/16: Solutions to Homeworks 2 and 3.

2010/03/15: The midterm will be held in CSE 404 on Wednesday, March 17^th from 8-10PM

2010/03/15: Homework 3 submission is postponed to Wednesday March 17^th.

2010/03/06: The midterm will be held on Wednesday, March 17^th from 8-10PM. The syllabus is all of constrained optimization and Lagrange parameters.

2010/02/24: Homework 3 (due March 15): 3.3.1, 3.3.2, 3.4.2, 3.4.4, 5.5.5, 5.5.8, 5.5.14, 5.5.15

2010/02/24: Solutions to Homework 1.

2010/02/04: Homework 2 (due Feb 15): 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.1.5, 3.1.8, 3.1.9, 3.1.13

2010/01/18: Homework 1 (due Feb 1): 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.6, 1.1.10, 1.2.7

2010/01/18:  The lecture notes handed out in class are from the book "Nonlinear Programming" by Dimitri Bertsekas.

2010/01/07: We'll be using the book "Convex Optimization" by Stephen Boyd and Lieven Vandenberghe for the first half of the course.