CPSC 406: Computational optimization

Course time and location

Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00 AM-12:30 PM

Hugh Dempster Pavilion Room 110

Also see

• Piazza: link

Teaching staff

• Yifan Sun (Instructor) Email: ysun13@cs.ubc.ca. Office hours: Monday 3-4pm.
• Zhenan Fan (TA) Email: zhenanf@cs.ubc.ca. Office hours Friday 10-11 am.
• Curtis Fox (TA) Email: curtis.fox@alumni.ubc.ca. Office hours Wednesday 11am-12pm.
• Liran Li (TA) Email: liliran@cs.ubc.ca. Office hours Tuesday 5-6 pm
• Danil Platonov (TA) Email: danil.platonov@alumni.ubc.ca. Office hours Friday5-6pm

Office hours well be held in the DEMCO room in the Xwing of the ICICS building (near the Poke restaurant)

Textbook

Introduction to Nonlinear Optimization: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications with MATLAB, Amir Beck (SIAM, 2014). This book is available online through the UBC Library.

Course requirements

One of CPSC 302, CPSC 303, or MATH 307.

Policies

• No makeup exam for the midterm of final. If you missed the midterm exam you must document a justification.
• Midterm exam grade will not be counted if it is lower than your final exam grade.
• To pass the course you must do the assigned coursework, write the midterm and final exams, pass the final exam, and obtain an overall pass average according to the grading scheme.
• The instructors reserve the right to modify the grading scheme at any time.

Past offerings and other resources

Winter Term 2 2018 (Instructor: Prof. Michael Friedlander)

Some material is also borrowed from UCLA's 236A Linear Programming