CO 463/663 Course Requirements and Marks (Winter 2020)

Problem set 1	due Jan. 24/2020
Problem set 2	TBA
Problem set 3	TBA
Problem set 4	TBA
Problem set 5	TBA
Problem set 6	TBA
final exam	TBA

Course Requirements

Lecture attendance is a course requirement, although attendance is not recorded. The course requirements for CO 463/663 include six problem sets and a final exam. The problem sets are mainly written exercises and with a programming component. The written exercises involve the theory of convex analysis and require mathematical proofs in many cases. The programming is in MATLAB on either Linux 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 currently due before cookie time on Fridays. No problem sets are accepted late.

The final exam is a written exam on TBA. You may bring one 8.5-by-11 sheet of paper with handwritten notes. The exam covers topics drawn from the lectures and homework, and from the underlying mathematics--you are not responsible for any outside reading.

Marking

NEW Due to the course going online, the marking is now as follows: Max of the following TWO options:
Option I: best 4 out of first 5 assignment: value 75%; and the last, 6th, assignment: value 25%
Option II: Drop one of the first 5 assignments. Each of the remaining 5 assignments is worth 20%.

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.

Henry Wolkowicz, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave. W., Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, http://orion.uwaterloo.ca/~hwolkowi/