OWinfo pages:
https://venus.tue.nl/owinfo-cgi/owi_0695.opl?vakcode=2DME20
Lecturer:
Gerhard Woeginger
Instructors:
Murat Firat
Cor Hurkens
Location (weeks 1-5):
Tuesday: laplace-gebouw -1.19
Friday: flux 0.01
Location (weeks 6-7):
Tuesday: flux 1.06
Friday: flux 1.06
Recommended book
We recommend the book `Convex Optimization' by Stephen Boyd and Lieven Vandenberghe
(Cambridge University Press 2004).
The book is available in electronic form (for free).
Parts of the course will cover material from chapters 2,3,4,5,9,11;
see here
Recommended article
Levent Tunçel: "Some applications of semidefinite optimization from an operations research viewpoint
pdf
Examination
• Written exam, with questions similar but not identical to exercises.
• Test exam for 2DME20
Old exams:
• Exam of 7 april 2014
• Exam of 5 november 2014
• Exam of 30 october 2015
Attention: the 2014 exams are for an older version of the course,
and hence are not representative for the current contents of the course.
Exercises:
• Exercises for weeks 1-3: pdf
• Exercises for weeks 4-5: pdf
• Exercises from Boyd & Vandenberghe: txt
• Exercises for weeks 6+7: see slides
Links:
• links to supplementary material