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Course RequirementsLecture 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 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. (The envelope closes at the start of class.) 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 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. MarkingThe problem sets count for 50% of the final mark and the final exam counts for the other 50%. 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 policyEach 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/
handed out 2018-Jan.