General
| organizer | Nicolas Macris (lthc) |
| office | INR 134 |
| phone | 38114 |
| [email protected]\“>[email protected] | |
| tentative schedule | monday 11h – 12h30 |
| location | room INR 113 |
Topic
This semester we will study the topic of convex optimization. We will base ourselves on the book Convex Optimization by S.Boyd and L.Vandenberghe.
We will meet on a weekly basis for presentations of 1h or 1h30.
Evolving schedule
| speaker | date | topic |
|---|---|---|
| Satish Korada | march 20 | Organisation – Linear programming |
| Satish Korada | march 27 | Linear programming |
| Satish Korada | april 3 | Linear programming-end |
| Vishwambar Rathi | april 10 | Convex sets |
| easter holiday | april 17 | – – – – |
| Dinkar Vasudevan | april 24 | Convex functions (chap 3) |
| Jasper Goseling | May 1 | Convex optimization problems (chap 4) |
| Mohammad Karzand | May 8 | Duality (chap 5) |
| Mohammad Karzand | May 15 | Strong Duality: continued (chap 5) |
| Mohammad Karzand | May 22 | Strong duality: proof of main theorem (chap 5) |
| Amin Karbasi | May 29 | Optimality conditions (chap 5) |
| holiday | June 5 | – – – – |
| Amin Karbasi | June 12 | KKT conditions: proofs, interpretation and examples |
| Florence Benezit | June 19 | Sensitivity analysis and theorems of alternatives |
| Etienne Perron | June 26 | Applications to estimation theory (chap 7) |