CO 367 Course Requirements and Marks (Fall 2017)
Course Requirements
Lecture attendance is a course requirement, although attendance
is not recorded.
The course requirements for CO 367 include six-seven problem sets and
a midterm exam and a final exam. The problem sets are
written exercises and with a programming component.
The written exercises involve
the theory of nonlinear optimization and some require mathematical
proofs. The programming is in MATLAB on either Unix or
Windows workstations.
MATLAB is a high-level language for numerical computation. Prior knowledge
of MATLAB is not a prerequisite of the course.
Assignments are due before the start of class on due date.
There is a late penalty of 10% for
problem sets handed in up to 24 hours late.
No problem sets are accepted more than 24 hours late.
The exams are written exams. You may bring one
8.5-by-11 sheet of paper with handwritten notes.
Marking
The problem sets count for 30% of the final mark
and the midterm and final exams count for the other 30% and 40%,
respectively.
The lowest scoring problem set out of the six is dropped.
One of the homeworks may be skipped, in which case this is
the one that is dropped.
Academic integrity policy
Each student is expected to write up the problem set by himself or herself.
Students must not hand in homework that represents somebody else's
ideas entirely. Students should do the coding for programming
questions by themselves---no program code should be shared.
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Henry Wolkowicz, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization,
University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave. W., Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1,
http://orion.uwaterloo.ca/~hwolkowi/
handed out 2017-Sept.