Math 287 * Nonlinear Optimization * Spring 2012

Handouts and general information

• Course outline (topics to be covered).
• Important information handout (administrative details) with updated alternate examination date.
• Problems (problem sheets, what's due when, solutions).
• Other handouts (Mathematica notebooks, lecture notes, etc.).
• Project (Term paper or programming project).
• Solutions to midterm test.
• Review sheet for final examination.

Useful links

• http://www.optimization-online.org/links.html: Optimization Online's optimization links.
• 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