Math 287 * Nonlinear Optimization * Spring 2008

Handouts and general information

• Course outline (topics to be covered).
• Important information handout (administrative details).
• Problems (problem sheets, what's due when, solutions).
• Handouts (Mathematica notebooks and other handouts).
• Project (Term paper or programming project).
• Solutions to midterm test.

Useful links

• http://www.ece.northwestern.edu/OTC/: Optimization Technology Center (Argonne/Northwestern University)
• Automatic differentiation sites:
  • http://www.autodiff.org: many links to publications and different tools
  • http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~utke/OpenAD/: the OpenAD tool
  • http://mitgcm.org/: an example of a model that uses OpenAD