Course Detail
Units:
3.0
Course Components:
Lecture
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement:
Prerequisites: Full Major status in Engineering or Public Health.
Description
Meets with MATH 5570. Existence, uniqueness and characterization of solutions to finite dimensional unconstrained and constrained optimization problems. Solution methods for finite dimensional unconstrained and constrained optimization problems. Newton and quasi-Newton methods. Globalization strategies, Linear Programming. Least Squares. Quadratic Programming. Convex Programming. Some programming experience is recommended. For graduate students extra work is required.