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Course handouts:
- Course Organization .html.
- Course Survey: .pdf.
Lectures:
- Cone programming: .pdf
- Conic duality: .pdf
- Interior point methods: .pdf
- Applications of semidefinite programming: .pdf
- Sums of squares: .pdf
- Generalized gradient descent and accelerated first-order methods:
.pdf
- Nesterov's method for the minimization of composite functions: .pdf
- Minimization of nonsmooth functions: .pdf
- Dual methods: .pdf
Students' presentations:
- Adaptive restarting for first-order pptimization methods by
Brendan: .pdf
- Accelerating Nesterov's method for strongly convex functions by
Hao and Xiangrui: .pdf
- Global optimization with polynomials by Geoffrey and Stephen: .pdf
- Robust Principal Component Analysis (and applications) by Borja
and Ivan: .pdf
- Semi-definite representation: for fun and profit by Ralph:
.pdf
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