IEOR 160: Nonlinear and Discrete Optimization

Instructor: Javad Lavaei
Time: Fridays 10am-noon
Location: 50 Birge
TA: Baturalp Yalcin (baturalp_yalcin AT berkeley.edu)
Grader: Shereen Wakhlu (wakhlu AT berkeley.edu)
Instructor's office hours: Tuesdays 10-11am
TAs’ office hours: Thursdays 1:30-3pm
Grading Policy (excluding any curving formula):

• 20% homework

• 30% midterm exam (March 24th)

• 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