IEOR 160: Nonlinear and Discrete Optimization

Instructor: Javad Lavaei
Time: Mondays and Wednesdays, 12-1pm
Location: 106 Stanley
TA: Jihun Kim (jihun.kim AT berkeley.edu)
Graders: Jessica Zhao (jessica.zhao AT berkeley.edu) and Faye Fang (ce_fang AT berkeley.edu)
Instructor's office hours: Wednesdays, 10-11am
TA's office hours: Fridays, 1:00-2:30pm
Grading Policy:

• 20% homework

• 30% midterm exam (March 20th)

• 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 (due April 12 at 5pm)

Homework 7 (due April 22 at 5pm)

Homework 8 (due April 30 at 5pm)