C&O 367 - Nonlinear Programming (Winter Semester 2003)

( Information related to the teaching activities of Professor Henry Wolkowicz is available. The material is related to the course taught in the Winter Semester 2003. )

PLEASE

• The final marks are given below. A scaling was done on April 29/03.
  The current and final marks file is available.
  The final exam (ps file) is available.
• midterm:
  The average was 48.8 out of 65. The midterm is available as a ps file and a pdf file

• course (virtual) handout
  • course/class outlines
  • Office Hours
  • Homework;
    (solutions are on reserve in the library - call number UWD1927 (call numbers are also available from the library web catalogue))

Useful Links

• Our Summer Undergraduate Research Program in C & O
• The Optimization Technology Center with notes and software - will solve problems online using the NEOS Server for Optimization. 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;
• An Building Freshman Intuition for Computational Science and Mathematics; an article by Charles Van Loan.

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Computing Environment

• You can use matlab on many machines, e.g. it will be made the default on: first tuxor and then also 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
• Detailed information about student accounts on the MFCF web page.
• local (UofW) software information