IEOR 160: Nonlinear and Discrete Optimization

Instructor: Javad Lavaei
Time: Mondays-Wednesdays 11am-noon
Location: 277 Cory
TA: Yatong Bai (yatong_bai AT berkeley.edu)
Grader: Jose Santos (jafs AT berkeley.edu)
Instructor's office hours: Mondays 9:45-10:45am
TAs’ office hours: Fridays 1-2:30pm
Grading Policy (excluding any curving formula):

• 20% homework

• 30% midterm exam (October 18th)

• 50% final exam

Description

Syllabus:

• Optimality conditions

• Local and global optimality

• Convex optimization

• Numerical algorithms

• Duality

• Convex relaxations

• Integer programming

• Applications in artificial intelligence

Textbook

• “The Mathematics of Nonlinear Programming” by Anthony L. Peressini, Francis E. Sullivan, and J.J. Jr. Uhl (optional)

Homework

Homework 1

Homework 2

Homework 3

Homework 4

Homework 5

Homework 6

Homework 7 (due November 21 at 5pm)

Homework 8 (due December 5 at 5pm)