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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